As many of you know, I lost my paternal grandmother last Thursday to a long and brave battle with Parkinson's disease. She was my first creative muse and one of the safest and most nurturing people in my life as a child. I recorded this video today that is, as usual, being suppressed like crazy due to a dip in my online activity over the past week, as well as the mention of Black History Month and a gathering I'm not paying LinkedIn a cut of. I'd appreciate if you'd go give it a listen and some engagement. All of this said, the webinars are on for this week, February 24-25-26 at 3:30pm Central US/10:30pm Central Europe. If you have not yet registered, you may do so at this link. Replay available for all registered attendees. Contributions over the suggested add seats to our community sponsorship pool. Global Black community members, your seat is on us—please DM me your email address to be registered. For non-Black people experiencing financial difficulty, a limited number of community pool seats are available. Please DM me ASAP to claim one, no questions asked. These webinars will much more off-the-cuff than I'm used to. There won't be a lot of bells and whistles. But I think it's important to still show up for the community and for myself this week. I'd love for you to do the same. See you there. 🤍

Thought I'd share this here; great article. One of the parts that stuck out to me: "If it feels like Maga is going overboard to tarnish Good’s image, it’s because they are – the smearing serves the dual purpose of a warning and an invitation to white women. There is no white supremacist state control without white women’s fidelity to it. As such, the right must simultaneously denigrate Good as unworthy of protection while reassuring other white women of the racial rewards of their political loyalty." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/01/white-supremacy-women-renee-good-ice-killing?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Here's a quick tap to remind everyone that today is our the OFFICIAL launch party for the R.I.S.E. Changmaker's Academy! Click here to watch on LinkedIn Live, or register here to join us directly on Zoom. Our way of celebrating this big new step for Hola Magnolia is to open up space to feature products, services and holiday offers from the amazing changemakers already in our ecosystem. In addition to our first public introduction of The Code™ monetization framework that we'll be teaching our impact creators, entrepreneurs and founders in the academy, this weekend we'll feature market submissions from: @Stacy Casson @Brandyn Gallagher @Lucie Le Naour @Jillian Love @Christine Olukere And many more to be joining us in the community soon! We'll be adding to the marketplace all through the month of December, so there's still time to participate! If you want to partner with us to celebrate our launch by featuring your product in our marketplace and helping to spread the word, fill out the short interest form and we'll shout you out throughout the month at our livestream events. A reminder that academy enrollment is now open, so please visit holamagnolia.com/rise to learn more, book an application call, and fill out our affiliate form to begin earning up to 10% for any referrals you bring to us that eventually enroll in the program. We look forward seeing many of you there!!!

Happy Monday, Changemakers! I am delighted to announce that the re-aligning of our community to support the (re)launch of the R.I.S.E. Changemaker's Academy is now underway: Welcome to the makings of the R.I.S.E. and Shine Collective, a collaborative global community for people doing work that makes a difference. This will continue to be a FREE community with periodic opportunities to participate in discounted events and prep workshops for those with aspirations to invest in the R.I.S.E. Changemaker's Academy. ➡️ SPEAKING OF WHICH!! If you have not yet seen our new landing page, take a spin at holamagnolia.com/rise—and if you're ready to launch or grow your impact business in 2026, click here to apply and book a call! 🌟 We began as The Accomplice Accelerator, a meeting place to continue the conversations from our monthly webinars featuring professional changemakers of all walks, industries and demographics. From there, we evolved into The Changemaker's Haven, a softer more intimate space gathering rising change leaders learning to pour first into their own cups before putting on their capes to show up for others. And now, just over one month until doors open at the academy, one year since the formation of this community, I am so excited for this new iteration of our space. Starting in the new year, we will be adding an ongoing monthly offering called the R.I.S.E. Forum: a weekly space for changemakers of all levels to come together in fellowship to share collective learnings, wins, and support for the work each of us is striving to do in this world. In addition, there will be periodic special sessions with guest mentors from our growing network as well, so it's going to be a special place to be part of. Stay tuned for more info with R.I.S.E. launch events being announced throughout this week. In the meantime... Have you booked a R.I.S.E. Academy discovery call yet? Help me pass the word!! Just 22 spots in our first class remain!

We helped each other. It is challenging to be from USA in Italy. So much to deal with on the daily. And if you are Queer and/or Black it requires more support and collaboration. We found each other and everything got easier🥰