The Resilience Report

The Resilience Report

Welcome to The Resilience Report, where we go beyond the headlines to spotlight the trailblazers redefining sustainable business. In each episode, host Lauren Scott sits down with ecopreneurs and lighthouse leaders—visionaries who are tackling our planet’s toughest challenges and proving that business can be a force for good.

Lauren has spent more than a decade working in the cleantech space, and specializes in translating climate initiatives into meaningful action to deliver on commitments to the building and renewables sectors. Her marketing and communications background is leveraged to promote social and environmental responsibility as an approachable, yet critical part of business operations. Scott’s career has been marked by being named one of Montreal’s Top 50 Women Leaders (2025), by her nomination as a 2020 Woman of Inspiration by the Universal Women's Network, as well as being shortlisted as Industry Woman of the Year by the ControlTrends Awards (2020).

Is Sustainable Finance Dead? 5 Experts on What’s Changed Since 2023
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Is Sustainable Finance Dead? 5 Experts on What’s Changed Since 2023

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Is Sustainable Finance Dead? 5 Experts on What’s Changed Since 2023
Oct. 30, 2026

Is Sustainable Finance Dead? 5 Experts on What’s Changed Since 2023

Is sustainable finance dead? After record ESG fund outflows, political backlash and funds dropping the label, we go back to the experts who saw it coming. When we launched The Resilience Report in early 2023, ESG was in every headline. Three and a half years later, investors have pulled money from ESG funds for the first time, and the question we hear most from you, our Resilience Reporters, is whether sustainable finance still has a future. In this special “best of” episode, we revisit our fin
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Outrageous Optimism: Building Resilience from the Inside Out ft. Sara Bell (RIISE)
Sept. 9, 2026

Outrageous Optimism: Building Resilience from the Inside Out ft. Sara Bell (RIISE)

What if the biggest thing standing between you and resilience isn't what's happening around you — it's the voice inside your own head? In this episode, we sit down with Sara Bell, founder and CEO of RIISE, a global marketplace for sustainable fashion and beauty, and RIISE Productions, a film and television company built around lower-impact storytelling. Before RIISE, Sara spent four years taking on fossil fuel subsidies worth billions of dollars in the European Courts — a legal challenge she ...
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Why Smart Buildings Are Becoming Climate Infrastructure ft. Lauren Scott
July 29, 2026

Why Smart Buildings Are Becoming Climate Infrastructure ft. Lauren Scott

31.5°C indoors. No A/C in sight. That's the moment that changed how host Lauren Scott thinks about her own industry. Thirteen years into building automation, Lauren always led with the environmental case — less energy, less grid strain, fewer emissions. Comfort was always the quieter argument. Then a near-record heatwave in Ireland, a country where fewer than 1 in 10 homes have air conditioning, made the case for her: as extreme heat reaches places never built for it, comfort stops being a wa...
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How a 30-Year Ad Strategist Rebuilt His Career Around Indigenous Language Reclamation ft. Jef Combdon (MarkerTree)
June 24, 2026

How a 30-Year Ad Strategist Rebuilt His Career Around Indigenous Language Reclamation ft. Jef Combdon (MarkerTree)

This episode's is someone I've wanted to sit down with since the very early days of this podcast — and trust me, the wait was worth it. Jef Combdon is a 30-plus year marketing communications and media strategist who has built campaigns for some of Canada's most recognized names: Molson Coors, Kraft, Colgate, Maple Leaf Foods, and Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, among others. He has operated at the highest levels of both holding companies and independent agencies, across Toronto and St. Joh...
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Your Bank Account Might Be Your Biggest Carbon Footprint ft. George Mazzella (GreenFi)
May 20, 2026

Your Bank Account Might Be Your Biggest Carbon Footprint ft. George Mazzella (GreenFi)

Most of us are doing the work. Recycling. Driving electric. Making more conscious choices about what we buy and who we buy from. But there's one place almost none of us think to look — and it might be undoing all of it. Your bank. In this episode of The Resilience Report, we sit down with George Mazzella, Head of Marketing at GreenFi, to talk about what actually happens to your money when you deposit it, why the traditional banking system isn't designed for you to ask that question, and what a
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Extreme Weather & Your Business: Build Before the Storm ft. Rachael Gauthier (IBHS)
April 22, 2026

Extreme Weather & Your Business: Build Before the Storm ft. Rachael Gauthier (IBHS)

Storm-Proofing Your Business: What the Science of Building Resilience Means for Leaders If your business was hit by a major weather event tomorrow, would you actually be prepared—or would you be figuring it out in real time? For most of us, resilience only becomes real once it becomes personal—once there’s damage, disruption, or a direct impact on operations. In today’s conversation, I’m joined by Rachael Gauthier from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety—IBHS—to unpack what...
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About the Host

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Lauren Scott

Lauren Scott specializes in translating climate initiatives into meaningful action to deliver on commitments to the building and renewables sectors. Her marketing and communications background is leveraged to promote social and environmental responsibility as an approachable, yet critical part of business operations.

Scott’s career has been marked by being named one of Montreal’s Top 50 Women Leaders (2025), by her nomination as a 2020 Woman of Inspiration by the Universal Women's Network, as well as being shortlisted as Industry Woman of the Year by the ControlTrends Awards (2020). She has pursued certificates in "Reconciliation through Indigenous Education" (UBC), "The Health Effects of Climate Change" and “Leading with Finance (both Harvard University) and “Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose” (Yale School of Management). Scott’s philanthropic efforts include having served on the board of Sierra Club Canada Foundation, the Canadian arm of one of North-America's largest environmental advocacy groups. She has held the role of the board President, and chaired the National Development Committee and the National Communications Committee.