Who do you need to become to serve the Great Turning? Dear Reader, Are you feeling that grief and change are themes so alive right now? And, what do they have to do with your livelihood? Soooo much. That's what I'm writing to you about today. With an invite to welcome in grief and change in 2025, as a North Star that points towards what you love. My Shifting Context My beloved Carol Sanford, a leader in regenerative business for decades, died in November. Carol prepared us for 2 years around...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Dear Reader, Do you want to explore questions like: What does wealth that supports LIFE look like? Feel like? How does it differ from conventional wealth? Can wealth be regenerative? What role does a regenerative right livelihood play in cultivating regenerative wealth? These are just a few of the themes we will explore when I talk with Laura Oldanie. I so deeply respect and appreciate how she has figured out her life and livelihood path, and so I invited her to share about it with me, and...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Reader, A big part of my work is rooted in shifting towards paradigms of thinking and being that allow us to be regenerating Life through our work. I'm continually diving deeper on this, and wanted to invite others to join me; so I wrote the first of a series of articles on Medium where I ask these and other provocative questions: What if work wasn’t a way to sell your labor to earn the means for your existence? What if Work was a way to inquire in each moment into this question: “What...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Dear Friends, In an email I sent you last month titled "Don't Compete. Cultivate!" I shared that I recently received a lovely invitation from Silvia DiBlasio and Della Duncan to participate as a guest speaker in their Cultivating Regenerative Right Livelihoods course. In that process, I was requested to submit the usual bio and headshot. I used it as a developmental opportunity--to stretch into thinking about our default expectations, and what paradigms give rise to them. In other words, I...
about 2 years ago • 1 min read
Dear Friends, Here we are, welcoming in Gregorian year 2023. In June, 2022 I wrote you this: "I'm currently back in Upstate NY after almost 6 months in Costa Rica. I'm here for about a month, liquidating my home further, putting a few treasures in storage, and then going back out nomading. The newest evolution of my professional aim is around working hands-on with micropreneurs to discern, design, and grow regenerative biz ecosystems that become the seeds for a regenerative economy. This...
over 2 years ago • 3 min read