appreciate it susie and i are caring for twins and their year old we have them twice a week so if i look older than i they take off in different directions on me and i think i have one and they try to go up the stairs and they're not supposed to but anyway that's you graduated ninety eight dollars as i did it correct and what have you been doing since then and well obviously dressing from the same collection as matt and eric busy ok so foster will remember i hate winter so obviously have now moved back to boston i went to new orleans i want to play in undergrad tulane law school katrina was my rd year of law school came back here as a visitor and student went back was an advisor the new orleans city council for a couple of years and it up in d c at the small business administration did some consulting but ultimately ended up in what we call the impact economy which is sort of for investing doing good and doing well at the same time you know it's really interesting right after katrina i took a group of kids from our church down there to to help rebuild houses in the th ward and i ran that to our stream of income has been mostly through alumni and we've one of the reasons that we're doing this on belmont television is that in my town and wayland they have well over a one million dollars in this in this scholarship account and they raise a good deal of their money from the townspeople and so we've shifted to sending out mailings and we're hoping that those of you out there that are watching that you would consider making a donation it's really important college is a very expensive today and even if you scholarship covers the cost of some of your books it's so huge help and so we would like to you know get ratchet up to about a one million or more next thing is to talk about your high school experience and you know what the high school meant to you and how it helped shape you know it well a lot think it is maybe the summary answer i he was far more than a basketball coach i think that's right and i had ethics and integrity but what he did that i didn't i think i took for granted at the time now i don't take for granted that  everybody in sports or in life approaches things the way that he did and i really have a huge amount of respect for that and so he was great and built you know great teams i think sprit decor that that we had on the belmont teams i played on was was really just meaningful and you'd have you know different people different backgrounds all lined around the same thing it makes you wish of the st few tests i took in her the st class i had with her i did poorly and what what she kind of nailed me on was that i was getting correct answers through bad process  when i came back and said look the answer is right so i should get credit for credit and she said look is this gets more complicated if you aren't doing it the right way you're going to be totally lost and at the time ake a structural problem solving approach to scientific method for her it was like religion she will be hammered home wonderful wonderful so she she just that was if there was one thing that i learned in high school you know the what we did the interest of the civil engineering government so i thought i was interested in architecture and and i realized very quickly that there's only a handful of architects in the world who are doing really fascinating compelling work and they had creativity i do not have enough so i felt like i could kind of copy you other people did and maybe take a piece here to pieces but i would not come up with something really original  involved in the process of naming the court after coach lines i was a manager in high school and i was a manager again in college and i stayed involved at various levels would you call support staff or strategic staff and basketball up until my rd year law school but coach lines had a huge effect on me and i was thinking about this when we had paul lyons night there were basically four people without whom i would not have graduated from high school and this is not hyperbole this is fact paul lyons foster right don white and toby brown the basketball coach who's also a math professor about the only thing you couldn't teach me was to enjoy math the principal who did everything he could to make sure that i made it through high school the history teacher and golf coach i was a golfer and we won league champions my senior year i feel like going to push that's really good something who also went out of his way to make sure that i made it and toby brown was the guidance counselor who helped me figure out where i belonged and all of them have remained friends and mentors of mine through the rest of my life you know as you explain just a little bit what it is that you do i'm not sure i totally grasp it which i th impact investing is basically the idea of doing good and doing well at the same time so you see this all around you just drive around the boston area and look at solar panels on roofs that's a business where the product or service it sells helps solve a social problem it reduces pollution and impact investing and it generally impact business we're looking for those combinations of solutions where there it's something that does good that helps solve the problem whether it's environmental or education and health care sustainable agriculture so say factor as part of this so you're saying that you can actually come up with a construct where you can make money but in the process of doing it you can contribute something good to this and i'm just saying you can i'm saying that there i'm saying there are tremendous number of businesses and investment firms that it was specifically how  you indirect this ok so going way back to my small business administration days i co wrote the initial impact investing policy framework for the federal government largely because i wouldn't shut up about it so they let me do it and  everything we do whether it's producing a t v show running a school running an investment fund there sort of strategic underpinnings for how you do it how you make it make sense what it means to get up and open the doors that if it doesn't make money then it can't get traction just the last mile from when the product actually lands at a port to ending up in someone's home and getting used if people along the way don't earn money for distributing it either takes an enormous amount of wind to be to get it there and we don't have that most people don't or it has to be a viable business and that makes sense to me but you don't disagree with that you're saying you're saying that it's actually fundamental the way it is fundamental and the more you can do that the less you find yourself a tension between solving problems that we see in our daily lives and how people or companies or investors make money now are you living in belmont somerville it's over yet and so after eight and a half years or so in new orleans and eight years in d c i moved back i'm married now we bought in somerville and i suspect that the next move is probably belmont i can't announce it on t a lot to commend you know your parents are still available my parents are still in belmar yeah his mom runs the community service program with high school we started it together the two of us it's a remarkable program and i  remember we made it a requirement i remember going to the school committee and one of the school committee member said we shouldn't require kids to do community service as well we require them to do science and math why shouldn't we require them they don't know what's good for them  there's been so many success stories and she's still she's still doing it yeah still doing it i ran into her chris you know at the polls and she was really good to see here yeah so what did you do for a community service project i graduated osion problem where the runoff from the roof would wash away one of the gardens there and so i've built our image system so you get a civil engineering project eagle you know obviously very proud of it but the number of people that would talk about their boy scout experience where they ended up not having you know gun and eagle i mean it was it was quite an accomplishment so back back to the high school for just a moment other other teachers that you picked out nancy day yeah so it was thinking the one another one who really i think had a well i got a average grade on a paper i wrote and parent teacher conference i guess was shortly after that and so when he that kind of the liver the verdict to my parents and my writing was was he used the word perfunctory which i had not encountered before you were the most charismatic back and told me that he thought that my my writing my paper was perfunctory and i thought as well and bled into the other courses that i have the same thing yeah well writing is fundamental to everything and you know the part i like to hear it when you when you talk about this is that you were just it that you you took it in and you incorporated and you listened and that's that's a skill in and of itself because i don't think you can grow if you don't you know willing to do that that's my notion that it is think else you want to say about the high school or i mean out what you were actually interested in and then getting you to something academic that touched on that and for me and i think you'll remember this i was always really good at the things i care about and not at all interested in anything i didn't care about and so the teachers who were best for me in some cases were only at belmont high school for two or three years mary porter tar but they were the ones who said you have a talent for this and even if it doesn't fit into the typical way of course works we're going to find a way to nurture that talent because there's something there and i think that's oh all right you know it strikes me that you have a sizable family down you're in belmont and you're going to start having to pay attention to what the schools do you already have probably that's so important as your parents did y know they really were strong strong supporters and you know you know your mom of course was just fundamentally part of the school but those are really important things they drive the quality of what happens it's not an accident that belmont is really good it's the parents that live in the town want to be that way and they hire people that want to do that work and it's really important for you both to carry that on and keep that as a primary interest i'd be interested just for a moment to how would you say that your notions about how this how do they apply to education or do they  they absolutely do well if you're running a school what give me the matrix ok so if you're running a public school you know what you're looking at from the government side you're not looking at making a profit  are looking at outcomes and the most efficient way to achieve the best outcomes and in some cases if you have to say go for a budget override or truck you need to find ways to tie what the school system doesn't accomplish is to the real estate values and stability of those values in a town that's one thing the other side is charter schools and i've lived in a lot of places where our belmont conception of what a public charter schools and you had good charter schools and you had bad charter schools and you had for profit charter schools that were well run and for profit charter schools that were well wrong when you had mom processing things but you're looking to tie the of the beneficial outcomes you're trying to achieve you want kids to learn if you want kids to advance you want to craft a curriculum that fits with what the kids are interested in so that they go forward and are successful but you different kinds of intelligence and one of the things i experience through sports actually is you have athletes who are brilliant at what they do and it is a form of intelligence it's not just kind of the physical gifts that they have but not necessarily very good leather other kinds of intelligence but growing up in belmont i have at least growing up i thought i was politically very conservative thing because i've  moved lived in parts of the country that are more conservative realize i'm moderate maybe but having friends who are very different from me in background in persuasion i think was critical for me in understanding that somebody who looks at something differently than you and is even passionate in that difference isn't bad you know i think that it's not specifically talking and  so you just you see that in a variety of different ways right so you know on sports teams i played on you know i have teammates who have different religious convictions and different racial basket backgrounds come from different socio point that you know well the things i think's missing in our society is that we we know a lot longer join together one of the things that the drafted a lot you know i'm not you know advocating for but it didn't mix kids from all over the country in together and they trained together many times they went off to war together of course that is a it's a bond that would never break so i mean i had command of a p c f in vietnam and i had nine kids that not nobody over them and that's what you're talking there in there's nothing like a common purpose that's exactly right you for that success and in sports teams have that absolutely you know there's an incredible benefit to getting outside the bubble you live in or grew up in to experience other parts of the world and how other things should work and then decide what feels right for you know what happens not only in athletics but the choir music theater lots of ways kids can join together and that's one of the great things gardner will say which was really an interesting thing as an educator he would say that we reward a fairly narrow spectrum of intelligence and in our schools and i think his whole advocacy is to broaden it and to actually help youngsters figure out what it is that they're really good at and and what they've been put here for and if you can do that if you can find that thing that you have a passion for it so much better your life is better and i think school should bennett and to the viewers please remember alumni and friends of belmont high school go to our website and some of the subject we'd love to receive it and it will be put to good use to one hundred per