Joshua Haynes
Founder and Managing Partner
Masawa
Education
Boston University
B.S., Business Administration, International Finance, Quantitative Methods
2002The Fletcher School at Tufts University
M.I.B., Technology and Social Impact
2010Podcasts
50:44436: What It’s Like to Build a Social Impact Fund to Improve Mental Wellness With Joshua Haynes, Masawa [Main T4C Episode]
Joshua Haynes is the founder of Masawa, a mental wellness social impact fund. After living with mental illness for decades Joshua came to realize that his unhealthy relationship with food was linked to his poor mental health. He began to take serious steps to strengthen his own mental health, but..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I knew I wanted to do something international and I really appreciated the experience I had had at that point living in different countries.”
Best Career Advice
“Being in the here and now is so crucial and not just letting your brain ruminate — that monkey talk of how bad you are or how bad things are, how you can’t do anything, because it’s all not true.”
Career Challenge
“I was fired from a job, and it was my fault although I didn’t want to admit it at that point. It was really the lowest part of my mental illness, and things were just way over my head in terms of what I could do or what I was able to do, and I simply could not perform. And that was a huge bruise on me ego.”
Skills
International Development, Telecommunications, ICT4D, Human Rights, International Relations, Multilingual, NGOs, Human Centered Design, Business Strategy, Internet Policy, Microfinance, Partnerships, Policy Analysis, Research, Management, Public Speaking
Professional Interests
Nicholas Thompson, Brené Brown, Laszlo Bock, Google, CBRE, IKEA, Big Path Capital founders of the Impact Investing Forum, Break Down. Wake Up. podcast guests!, SPAC Opportunities, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
