I'm a recovering impact investor – and this is what I’ve come to realise about our profession

"Hi, I'm Erika, and I am a recovering impact investor 👋 " That was the title of my LinkedIn post that reached far beyond my network and got almost 90,000 views. Obviously it struck a nerve.

Many people in impact eventually hit a point where the work stops being merely intellectually rewarding and becomes existentially terrifying. Not just because of the realisation of how close we are to ecological and biosphere collapse, but because, if you look deep enough into the polycrisis, you re...extraction dressed as progress, control dressed as governance, exponential growth dressed as inevitability. This is an uncomfortable mental step to take. Once you have crossed that threshold, what is the work worth doing?