Some beliefs to try on as you really settle into this: • My business thrives when I work less. • Self-care is a profit-generating activity. • My natural cycles and energy levels are guiding me toward my highest and best destiny. • I get to grow my business my own way. • I bring out the best in my team when I let them do their job.

Knowing the energetics of the seasons allows your business to ground into the larger cycles at play, and it allows you to find peace where you’re at.

The Yurok, Karuk, Hupa, Miwok, and Chumash tribes across California, and hundreds of other Indigenous tribes, have been doing controlled burns for millennia, realizing that smaller fires in intentional areas prevent massive fires that would overtake the entire forest. This practice is continued to this day by Indigenous people and park rangers

Regeneration With regenerative agriculture, we’re flipping agriculture on its head. Instead of trying to grow food, we’re aiming to grow fertile soil. With the focus on fertility at the root, the most delicious and nutrient-dense food on the planet

It’s clear to see how the Industrial Revolution took a system that was fine (organic, sustainable farming) and made it fucked (conventional, chemical farming).

It’s when we open up to the messy bits—our fucked-upness—that we become our whole selves. And our whole selves are the selves (and the salve) that will bring us the most pleasurable life. Our whole selves will attract the customers we want, the people we want to work with, and the opportunities and experiences we’re looking for.

Inspiration is an important element in a joyous business that’s tailor made for you and the soul of your business. But inspiration can also feel like a ten-year-old who wants to play with Legos instead of finishing their homework. Sure, Legos are a worthwhile activity that can build spatial reasoning and creativity, but the homework is the thing

From the industrial lens, our business is a way to extract money, not liberate society. Other Side Effects of the Industrial Revolution 1. Objectification: Everything and everyone is a tool to be used. 2. Limited resources: There’s no focus on renewal, so we need to grab up what’s available as quickly as possible (definitely before the next guy),

What we actually need is more dense networks of connection, like the interwoven mycelium of fungi. This network, which looks like the nervous system in our bodies, communicates and transports nutrients quickly. It creates more health and resilience in a garden or ecosystem.