The Intentional Investor #60: Scott Shadian

Matt Zeigler

September 2, 2026·Money

Scott Shadian joins Matt Zeigler on The Intentional Investor to tell the extraordinary story of helping evacuate 1,200 vulnerable Afghans during the fall of Kabul and explain how decades in diplomacy, conflict zones, research and communications shaped his view of broken systems. They trace his path from a struggling student and Southern California punk rock kid to the White House, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sayara and Emergence Field Labs, exploring civil war, social cohesion, narrative, AI, qualitative data and why systems fail when they can no longer see or learn from themselves.

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