{"id":93859,"date":"2023-04-16T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spring.is\/old\/blog\/my-impact-investor-challenge-experience-an-interview-with-sonya-bell-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:06:58","slug":"impact-investing-interview-with-sarah-stevens-on-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spring.is\/old\/alumni\/impact-investing-interview-with-sarah-stevens-on-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Investing Interview with Sarah Stevens on Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"93859\" class=\"elementor elementor-93859\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-96614e8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"96614e8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ff67e5\" data-id=\"7ff67e5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6542655 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6542655\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 13-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201c[Impact investing] is a newer phenomenon and speaks to the times we're in\u2014the  emissions, the Paris Accord\u2014there's a shift in the culture to care about these things.\u201d - Sarah Stevens\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4c688d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4c688d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.16.0 - 13-09-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sarah-stevens-842b1b16\/\">Sarah Stevens<\/a> is a consultant and founder of Innov8 Green, a real estate holding and investment company. As an investor, Sarah joined Spring\u2019s 2022 Health <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spring.is\/old\/programs\/impact-investor-challenge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Impact Investor Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in partnership with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telus.com\/en\/pollinatorfund\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good.<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The 11-week program is for investors and impact-curious individuals who want to grow, navigate, and learn about the investing process in a community-minded experience that culminates in a final investment decision.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In her consulting business, Sarah aims to improve and address gaps in the healthcare system. She shares her story with us about her experience in Spring\u2019s investor program and how it allowed her to think about making an impact in a different way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e6d87b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e6d87b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dcb36bc\" data-id=\"dcb36bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7019270 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7019270\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Read more about Sarah's  journey below.\n<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6134135 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6134135\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8fb44e8\" data-id=\"8fb44e8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8f6eb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a8f6eb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Tell us a little bit more about yourself and your journey to becoming an investor.<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-442e72a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"442e72a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My background is in healthcare and I started out in nursing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I always wanted to make an impact and a difference in the role I had, or the opportunity I sought out. As I learned and grew in my career, I went from a clinical practice to management, consulting, working with governments, and lots of different projects in the healthcare system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I saw a need there and the problems we were facing, so I saw investing in companies as something that would allow me to <\/span><b>make a difference in a different way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Before I joined the spring program, I met a friend\u2019s cousin who was a young adult and starting up a company. He was so young, enthusiastic, and although the company wasn&#8217;t in healthcare, he&#8217;s actually doing well.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I thought, I want to invest in him\u2014his ideas and passions\u2014for making a difference even though it wasn&#8217;t in my lane of what I thought I&#8217;d be interested in.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This was my first experience, my first investment in a company. So that&#8217;s how I started getting interested in it.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then after I jumped in and invested I thought okay, I&#8217;m going to join an angel group. I wanted to invest in Canadian companies so I joined an angel group here in Toronto where I live, and that&#8217;s where the process started.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-243e19b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"243e19b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Before joining the program, what was the evolution from your first investment to the moment you met Spring?<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3da69ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3da69ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After I joined the angel group, I dove right in and started attending Spring\u2019s weekly meetings. And as I was learning, I realized I had a bit of a learning curve.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Someone in the angel group shared the Spring program with me, so I thought I would join that and expand my networks, learn more, give advice where I could, and see if I could make a difference as a newer investor.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63ae1a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"63ae1a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\nWhat comes to mind when you hear \u201cimpact investing\u201d?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a105bcf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a105bcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How everyone doesn&#8217;t know about impact investing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s a newer phenomenon and speaks to the times we&#8217;re in\u2014the\u00a0 emissions, the Paris Accord\u2014there&#8217;s a shift in the culture to care about these things.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And there\u2019s a demand from consumers and investors to say no, you can&#8217;t just make a profit, that&#8217;s not the only thing we care about\u2014we care about how you are impacting the environment\u2014<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">what social good are you doing?<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40a3845 elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-blockquote--button-color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" 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their employees, select their employees, and are they caring more about diversity and inclusion\".\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4532cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c4532cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\nWhat made you choose to participate? What attracted you to join when you learned about Spring\u2019s program?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5241e9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5241e9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One reason is how investing was new to me and I wanted to learn in a formal learning structure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Another reason is how Spring has been doing this for awhile\u2014they\u2019ve got 100 companies prior.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I looked at the program and I saw that it was a commitment that you had to do and stick to for three months, so to me that wasn&#8217;t too long of a program.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I like that they had a mix of tools and resources\u2014the tools seemed easy to use, it was online, they had people with experience charting certain topics. They provided a networking opportunity which was really important to me as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s another venue to meet entrepreneurs and then to meet with investors. Some of them were specific healthcare angel groups, which I was really interested in meeting and learning from.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And the fact that you got to work with a smaller team as well.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have the bigger groups but then you go into smaller groups where you get to do longer-term due diligence, or create an investment memo for the company so that was all appealing.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8fcb1fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8fcb1fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What are the takeaways that you got from the challenge?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b4c81d elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-blockquote--button-color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"4b4c81d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\"It was interesting to me how different people and investors come at it from such a different perspective\u2014that was a good takeaway. \n\nI would only learn that by being in the program\u2014where you meet and you get to hear them talk about why they think it's a good company, what their thesis is\u2014and I found that very interesting.\"\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5006cb1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5006cb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another takeaway from that is just to understand it even more and applying what I learned to my own angel group and being acutely aware of how everyone&#8217;s coming at it from different investment angles.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fa8af1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2fa8af1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The other thing was the team. \n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb3f519 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eb3f519\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I learned a lot of what people really valued and the similarities or commonalities was around the value of the team\u2014do you believe in them and do you trust them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then from the entrepreneur side, talking to them and hearing their stories and the hard work that they do was more reinforcement to me and how it\u2019s such a <\/span><b>valuable thing to invest in people and their ideas.<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a43dff8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a43dff8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span style=\"font-weight:normal;\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-fba11bba-7fff-2fb4-e5a5-5c90d9fb9e57\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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