She was eight years old, handed back a test covered in corrections, and told that her dyslexia was her reason to be better than everyone else, because she would have to work harder for it. She didn't have the words for why that felt wrong until years later.

In this clip from Connected Conversations, Camilla Halford, founder of Artega and co-founder of The Homing Call, traces a line from that classroom to the question she now asks of everything: who is this system actually built for? Her argument is that education is structured to rank rather than to help people succeed, because a system with winners requires losers. From there she follows the same logic into housing, and then into payments, where she draws a distinction most of us have never stopped to notice. Cash is a private agreement between two people. A card payment is not.

In this clip:

- The classroom moment that made her start questioning systems

- Why she says a system built to rank people is built for some of them to fail

- The overlooked difference between paying with cash and paying by card

- What your spending reveals about you, and who benefits from knowing it

Watch the full episode with Camilla Halford for the village we lost, the origin of the five-day week, and where a leader starts rebuilding community on purpose.A note on historical context: Camilla discusses how the Netherlands' population registration system contributed to the high death toll among Dutch Jews during the Holocaust, the highest proportion in Western Europe. Historians treat registration as one of several significant factors.

Hosted by Elena Petrova. Connected Conversations is produced by Ad Astra, Inc.