Making Sanctuary: Creating Financial + Energetic Stability in Uncertain Times
MAR 23, 202655 MIN
Making Sanctuary: Creating Financial + Energetic Stability in Uncertain Times
MAR 23, 202655 MIN
Description
If you're a purpose-driven business-builder, it's safe to say things can feel a bit hopeless and overwhelming right now.
The answer, I don't believe, is to double-down on your goals regardless.
The answer, I believe, is to let this moment change us—and our businesses—from the ground up, so we can collectively repattern into more life-giving, "mutually flourishing" futures (Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer).
This episode is a radical invitation into a deeper timeline, and a more liberatory narrative—beyond the hero's journey of American entrepreneurship.
Here, we locate ourselves in 300,000 years of human resilience instead of this morning's news cycle—and let the systems that were never built for us disintegrate, the way self-healing soil dissolves everything put into it over time.
In this episode, Eden offers three shifts she believes are the most stabilizing work a purpose-driven entrepreneur can do right now: sufficiency over excess, ease over strain, deep time over immediacy—drawing on Bayo Akomolafe's invitation to slow down precisely when the urgency feels unbearable. She also draws on Kate Raworth's Donut Economics, her Polish great-grandfather's doubling down on generosity over selfishness in scarce times, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's Good Mind practice, the Black Panthers and Social & Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans' resilience cultures, and her own equitable business-building journey over the past 12 years.
"Sanctuary is not a place, but a practice—a way to become-with a world that is never not broken." - Bayo Akomolafe