Conscious business. At first, the words seem like oxymorons. What could be less conscious than market forces? What could be less interested in business than the heart and soul that gives meaning to our lives.

What is more common than the denunciation of large corporations for tax with reprehensible social repercussions all in the name of the almighty dollar? In the same vein, who isn’t familiar with the moans of the “starving artists” whose visions of beauty and harmony don’t find purchase in the capitalist/consumer marketplace?

However, when you look past the standard politically correct dialog about the evils of business, the situation is far more complex, and far more interesting. On the one hand, a business must provide a service that people value enough to pay for in order to succeed. On the other, we each work at business is in order to both earn money to provide for our values and needs, but also to use express our talents and gifts.

This blog will explore how we can each bring more caring, heart, adventure, and soul to our fiscal and financial realities, while bringing more practical, brass tax, bottom-line mentality to our personal and private lives. By integrating passion and purpose, professional and personal, money and meaning, we can revitalize every part of our lives and helped to create a world which we all want will. Welcome to Money, Mission, and Meaning: the blog.