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!

Hope its okay to post this here Does anyone have a kindle laying around that they don't use anymore? I want to be able to switch from book to audiobook and it seems that kindle is the only one I can do this with. As I start to sew my academic hat together, I am finding that I need something smaller to carry around to read on. I can't and wont buy a new one. I don't care the age as long as it won't go obsolete in the next year or 2 If so please dm me. I can only pay for shipping unfortunately unless you will allow smaller payments.

As a white person who does anti racist work specifically in the oppressed communities that I belong to, Disability/access, queer, autistic etc, I wanted to start making a list of people on linkedin that I could tag somewhere in the post. I can't tell if this is whiteness I need to unpack, but it also feels like commodification of suffering. Not that reparation is but more like "here's a list of people that need help AND all your guilt can be solved by doing this" "If you have benefited from this post, please consider providing reparations to Robin Divine who does amazing work, @Erin Corine Johnson for learning about reparations, or find a mutual aid group near you"

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🥰

Hi everyone. I've had my head down pivoting my side hustle to more about overcoming overwhelm.. I am testing out the first things in my sales funnel. It's $1.00 and is a 5 minute Calm Down Session included in a fifteen minute total discovery call. There has been so much happening that I think folks would appreciate some soothing. If you want to try it out it would create a win win because I would love feedback. If you are interested this is the link to book. https://calendly.com/thingstothinkabout/calm-down