# Ep. 95: Ken LaRoe - Climate First Bank

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/st-pete-x-715488/ep-95-ken-laroe-climate-first-bank
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/st-pete-x-715488/ep-95-ken-laroe-climate-first-bank.md
Podcast: [St. Pete X](https://stenobird.com/podcast/st-pete-x-715488)
Published: 2023-09-30T19:46:22+00:00
Episode link: https://stpetersburggroup.com/podcast-episodes/ken-laroe-climate-first-bank/
Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/stpetex/SPX_Ken20LaRoe_Version1.mp3?dest-id=543363
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/st-pete-x-715488/episodes/ep-95-ken-laroe-climate-first-bank
Duration seconds: 2456

## Resource

Ken LaRoe is the founder of Climate First Bank, which is his third bank. After the very successful sale of Florida Choice Bank, his first, LaRoe and his wife Cindy rented a small RV to travel the country. For that trip LaRoe's brother gave him a copy of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard's book, Let My People Go Surfing. It proved to be a transformational read. In this episode of SPx we explore that transition into values based banking as well as entrepreneurial banking as a whole.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/st-pete-x-715488/episodes/ep-95-ken-laroe-climate-first-bank/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/st-pete-x-715488/ep-95-ken-laroe-climate-first-bank.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.