In this episode, our guest Besan Abu-Joudeh and I explore how money, education, spirituality, and social impact can come together to create more liberatory ways of working and learning. Besan shares how her training in economics led her from management consulting and international development to co-founding BuildPalestine—and how the burnout and self-doubt she experienced as a founder inspired a more intuitive, soul-aligned approach to entrepreneurship.

• From economic theory to the realities of social impact
• Founding BuildPalestine and learning to trust her own intuition
• Zakat, barakah, and the Islamic understanding of money as flow
• Birthing the School of Radical Imagination during personal and political transformation
• Reimagining education as a path to becoming better humans
• Helping independent academics earn a dignified livelihood
• Reciprocity, scholarships, and working through faculty money blocks
• Building a faculty-centered 70/30 revenue-sharing model
• Creating ventures through trust instead of overwork and control
• Energetic hygiene and sustainable leadership for sensitive founders

Besan Abu-Joudeh is a Palestinian American social entrepreneur, ICF-certified coach, trauma-informed life coach, and energy healer. Her work is dedicated to creating spaces where people can reconnect with their purpose, step into their power, and share their unique medicine with the world. Through her coaching practice, Pause Impact, she supports people in bringing soul-aligned ventures, movements, and offerings into being through intuition, inner work, mindfulness, and sustainable action.

Her professional background spans management consulting, economic development, research, and nonprofit leadership, including roles at Accenture Federal, A.T. Kearney, and the Office of the Quartet. In 2016, she co-founded BuildPalestine, a platform created to support social innovation and changemakers in Palestine. Her experiences in consulting, international development, and entrepreneurship helped shape her belief that meaningful outer impact must be grounded in inner transformation, local community, and an understanding of human interconnectedness.

Besan is currently building the School of Radical Imagination, a global education platform where academics can teach live, cohort-based courses without institutional gatekeeping. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, as well as a master’s degree in Development Economics from SOAS University of London.

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