Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.

Creating for the long-term
people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.
"To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system."
— Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing
The ultimate something out of nothing is grace. You receive it by being ready for such a world. Allowing such a world. Even expecting such a world.
“A courageous heart will go forth and engage with life despite confusion and fear.”
— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles
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