May 8, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Actions to extricate your victim Notice anywhere in your world where patterns of oppression or struggle are on a repeat cycle. Look behind the story, even though it might be built on legitimate truth, and see if there is any element of ‘poor me’. Choose to...
May 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Adopting the identity of being a victim Some years ago, I found myself witnessing the subtle shadows of my inner victim, that part of me who had held the central reins of my being for most of my adult life. This is how she showed up. She lived in a story of me being...
May 6, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Due process Rounding up people and sending them to offshore concentration camps without due process is something everyone should be terrified of. It sits neatly in the ‘how to build an authoritarian regime’ playbook. Just because it is the ‘other’ today is no...
May 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hate loses In Australia and Canada, the people rejected hate. I always felt that if our Prime Minister could delay the election long enough, the Trump effect would play its hand. Our result is far from perfect. The government has not stood up to genocide, completely...
May 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The tools we use to measure tell us a story How the neoliberal story loves to disdain the poor. Worthless. Useless. A drain on society. Lazy. I was raised on this story. I believed it until I found myself a highly educated single mother and struggling to pay rent. If...
May 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The old vote My father is about to turn 92. He is a die-hard reader of the Murdoch media, which makes him, by default, a neoliberal. I used to be one of those. Australia goes to the polls this weekend. As I get older, I think about my vote differently. I want to be...