Hello! I've landed in beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota and happy to be digging in back
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Back from vacation and my brain is BUZZING 🧠⚡
Just hit 20/30 MLB stadiums (Astros: meh, Rangers: better architecture, Santa Fe's Sun and Dust Gallery: TAKE MY MONEY 💸). But honestly? The best part was all the conversations with brilliant humans doing things that haven't been done before.
Here's the thing that keeps coming up: DEBT IS THE PROBLEM 😤
Women + POC entrepreneurs start service businesses because we can bootstrap them. We're scrappy AF. But then we get systematically under-invested in because traditional finance doesn't see us for what we are.
Our WeTheChange member Maiya? Made a strategic acquisition ✅ Kept her team during downturn ✅ Had months of runway saved up ✅ Did EVERYTHING right... Still had to HELOC her house and felt like a "failure" going through traditional lending.
THE SYSTEM IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE ENTREPRENEURS.
Plot twist: What if we flipped the script entirely? 🔄
Instead of debt that feels heavy, what about:
🔹 Revenue sharing (we win together or not at all)
🔹 Philanthropic guarantees (just cosign, reduce the pressure)
🔹 Asset partnerships (I buy you a backhoe, you pay me % of what it generates)
🔹 Community wealth building that lifts everyone
I'm diving deep into indigenomics right now—learning economic models based on indigenous wisdom that relies on ABUNDANCE not extraction. Shoutout to Her Many Voices for making this wisdom accessible to me! 🙏
The entrepreneurship wounds are real, friends. Most of us started businesses because we learned we're safer taking care of ourselves. Debt recreates that vulnerability we're trying to escape.
MY ASKS:
📚 Send me resources on abundance-based investing
🤝 Connect me with people who want to empower purpose-driven women leaders
The WeTheChange Signatory Fund is getting AMAZING traction and we're pioneering something different here.
What does abundance-based investing look like to YOU?
See you next week!
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