Bringing this post over from LinkedIn. If you’d like, please leave it some love as it is being suppressed—as expected. Today, the planet Mars makes what’s called a cazimi with the sun in Capricorn, which is when it passes right through the center point of our grand luminary, beginning a new cycle from our vantage point on earth. Astronomically speaking, it’s literally nothing. We can’t see it from Earth for obvious reasons. Astrologically speaking, combined with Capricorn’s unparalleled discipline, it signals a powerful reset for our planet of action, risk-taking, and resilience. Symbolically… This is where I want you to take notes: It’s time to move with strategy, intention, and courage. This is where this week’s murder by ICE agents in Minnesota comes in. Real talk, It is truly in the best interest of my business to not speak up about the execution of Renee Nicole Good. I am launching a program. LinkedIn hates everything I say. I don’t feel like blocking anyone today. So why am I posting about her anyway? Because justice is and will always be my business. Because accompliceship is and will always be my business. Because when a government crosses the line of demarcation between legality and lawlessness to execute any and all that stands in the way of their own interests, refusing to own this death as a critical error of their spun-out regime, as a wake-up call to the division that a president and secretary of homeland security are fueling with alternative narratives of a clearly-documented, broad-day murder… …We are in big, big, BIG trouble. True social impact can only extend as far as those with power and privilege are willing to reach out in our direction to reciprocate. The sad part is, many privileged people will see this death as a warning, leaving millions of Black and Brown people to continue to fend for ourselves as anti-immigration, anti-Blackness and anti-inclusion sentiments continue to catch fire.

Hey, Changemakers! As so many of you know, I've been hard at work recovering from a very difficult 18 months in business, made even more challenging following the re-election of President Voldemort. I am back in the saddle AND back in learning mode—which means I am being mentored in all the ways, official and unofficial, to help Hola Magnolia and our new R.I.S.E. Changemaker's Academy hit the ground running at the tippy-top of calendar year 2026. My first assignment from my current mentor cohort was to write this post, which I've done first on LinkedIn. I'll pin posts on other platforms below as I get to them. While you're here, also bookmark our rescheduled reconnection call happening on Monday 11/8 at 1pm Central US/8pm Central Europe. Really appreciate you all! Thank you so much! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

If you came to today's AM office hours, you know that I tunneled DEEP into the netherworld of YouTube banners this morning. Getting the hang of the dimensions can be massively annoying, which is why I was avoiding it. However, I am SO proud of how this first iteration turned out. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@IdentityBelongingCoach! There are tons of old videos here that will be going unlisted soon, so feel free to check them out—but I'm preparing to finally jump off into the deep blue of YouTube and I'm actually... Sort of excited about it. Let me know what you think if the aesthetic, and give me a follow if you're on! Happy Thursday and hope to see you all at the meet & greet today at 1:30 Central US/8:30 Central Europe!

Hey, all! I'm participating in a program that meets on Wednesdays at our normal PM slot, so today's PM group coaching session (and the rest of the group coaching for the program) will be held at 3pm Central US (Chicago)/10pm Central Europe (Barcelona). Registration and join links are all the same, so visit the calendar tab. Detailed August schedule post forthcoming. See everyone later today!

Today, I am grieving the version of me that innocently and innocuously celebrated the 4th of July for the first 25 years of my life. That attended fireworks displays, staring up at the sky with wonder and awe at the explosive spectacle of light, sound and color. The United States of America was always painted to us as the pinnacle of freedom and democracy. A picture of progress and the embodiment of limitless opportunity. I grieve the little girl that thought slavery was a moment in time. A complicated history that was corrected and as such, justice was served. It was not corrected. It was covered. Buried. Hidden. Attempted to be rewritten. But there can be no reconciliation without repair. So as memories of rose-colored flag glasses, Old Navy t-shirts and firecrackers on the front porch fade into the distance of my memory, I come into consciousness. We are living in a world where suffering is so normalized, where partisan politics are so weaponized and white supremacy is so violent that dozens of white men can now, in broad daylight, unhooded and undeterred, vote against basic human dignity in at least seven different variatiants including but not limited to revoking healthcare, ending SNAP benefits, and violently detaining citizens and parents of citizens on the basis of race. And because we have normalized it, we can no longer control it. So if today you need to just let the tears fall, do that. If you need to write and write and scream and write until your fingers fall off, do that. If you need to cancel everything and sit in a dark room, do that. But if you feel the need to take up space today, do that too. You can start here. Write how you’re feeling below. Tell me what comes up for you. You don’t have to have a solution. You don’t have to find a bright side. It’s okay if it feels like there isn’t one. This is your community, and it is protected to the best of my ability so that you can say whatever is on your mind. Please use it if you need it.