Wise Economy Workshop

05/23/2026

💥 Tough truth: most strategic plans are just expensive decorations.

The retreats happen.
The slides get presented.
The document gets printed.

And then… nothing changes.

Why? Because strategy built by a tiny inner circle almost always misses what’s really happening on the ground.

The people closest to the work — frontline teams, customers, communities — often see the risks, friction, and opportunities leadership never sees.

That’s why the best organizations stop building plans *for* people and start building them *with* people.

Real strategy requires:
✔ Diverse perspectives
✔ Shared ownership
✔ Transparent decision-making
✔ Leadership that listens

Otherwise, your “strategic plan” becomes shelfware with better fonts.

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05/22/2026

🔥 BIG NEWS: A new Alternative Funding Community is coming soon.

If you’ve ever tried to fund:
🏢 a building rehab
🌳 a community project
🚀 a startup
🏪 a local business

…you already know the system can feel impossible.

But people around the country are creating smarter, fairer ways to fund real change — and now those ideas are being brought together in one place.

This new community will connect you with:
✨ innovative funding strategies
✨ inspiring stories
✨ practical tools
✨ people doing the work

📚 Buy the books
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🎤 Book speaking events & workshops for your organization or city

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05/20/2026

🌟 **What’s the Entrepreneur’s Real Secret Weapon?**

It’s not accounting software.
It’s not marketing tactics.
It’s your mindset.

The ability to adapt to change, find hidden opportunities, and build solutions that strengthen your community is what separates survivors from changemakers.

📚 Start with these powerful reads:
📘 *Unlock Your Inner Entrepreneur* by Gary Schoeniger
🦖 *Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance* by Donna Kennedy-Glans
🎨 *A Theory of Why Arts Entrepreneurship Matters* by Jason White

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👉 Turn change into opportunity.

05/19/2026

🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ Sometimes simply showing up changes history.

When Chase Strangio became the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, his presence made a powerful statement: this case is about real people, real families, and real lives.

The courtroom included transgender youth, parents, attorneys, journalists, and advocates—all there to ensure the justices could not ignore the human impact of their decision.

Visibility matters. Representation matters. Courage matters.

If you care about the future of justice, equality, and social change:

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Together, we can shape a future where everyone is seen.

05/14/2026

Here Comes the Business Extinction Event.

The warning signs are everywhere:

📉 Top economists are challenging the theories that shaped modern capitalism.
🏡 Working from home is permanently changing employment.
🛒 Retail giants are struggling because outdated models no longer serve customers.

The Industrial Era is fading.

The organizations that thrive next will be the ones willing to rethink everything.

Will your business adapt—or become the next fossil?

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05/12/2026

We want change. But we resist it.

That’s true whether you’re breaking personal habits or redesigning an entire organization.

Why? Because humans are built to repeat what has worked before.

Three ideas I’m exploring right now:

🌱 Resilient organizations behave like ecosystems, not machines.
🧠 Real transformation requires questioning hidden assumptions.
🌫️ Uncertainty is not a problem to eliminate—it’s a capability to develop.

The future belongs to leaders who can adapt without clinging to outdated structures.

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05/09/2026

🔮 The rules of work are changing.

For generations, we were trained to obey, repeat, and fit neatly into someone else’s system.

Today, organizations need people who can:
✔ Think independently
✔ Adapt quickly
✔ Solve meaningful problems
✔ Create new opportunities

That’s the entrepreneurial mindset—and it’s becoming essential for everyone.

In *Future Here Now*, I examine how businesses, educators, and leaders can move beyond Industrial Era thinking and build cultures where innovation thrives.

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05/05/2026

Future Here Now: Learn to Be Brave

Navigating the uncertainties and upsets that come with the kinds of profound change we are experiencing requires something very old-fashioned of all of us:

Bravery.

That’s a hard word to define, even though we know it when we see it. Being brave is about sticking to your convictions even when doing that puts you at risk, about taking an action that you believe is right even when it’s dangerous. To most of us, brave means Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, firefighters, Oscar Romero, etc.

But bravery also comes into play when we’re facing psychological or social risk - taking a stand that friends or family don’t understand, earning disapproval from a boss, pushing against a social expectation.

Most of us only have to make a choice about the first kind of bravery a couple of times in our lives, if at all. The second kind of bravery impacts us sometimes daily, especially when we’re in a period where old systems don’t fit anymore and the new ones haven’t yet taken hold.

The Industrial Era expected most of us to be cogs in a machine, do what we were told. Not independent actors in a VUCA world. So we didn’t learn a whole lot about how to be brave, especially the little everyday kind of brave.

How do we learn to be brave? These three stories

05/05/2026

What Does It Really Mean to Be Brave Today?

We often think of bravery as something big—
heroes, history-makers, life-or-death moments.

But most of us?
We face a different kind of brave every day.

💭 Saying what others won’t
💭 Choosing a new direction
💭 Standing strong when it’s easier to blend in

That’s the courage this moment asks of us.

And the truth?
We were never really taught how to do it.

🌱 But we can learn.

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💬 The future belongs to those willing to show up—bravely.

05/03/2026