As 2026 comes into full swing, the battle for our future feels increasingly stark. Fear-based narratives are winning—not through superior ideas, but through masterful storytelling. A core part of my work has been finding ways for us to "love each other through our ugly," and I’ve learned we cannot counter narratives of fear with better data alone. We must counter them with narratives of love. We must build syntropic narrative infrastructure for systems change. Let me explain.

This year I attended my third P4NE annual gathering in Lyon, France on October 1st and 2nd. Over 250 people committed to fundamentally transforming our economic system gathered under the title "Hope in a time of Collapse." The energy this year was definitely something to experience, a palpable possibility of the future. As I listened to the conversations, keynote addresses, and corridor dialogues, two vital truths emerged with real clarity for me: (1) the new economy field ca

Photo by Marc Sethi At the beginning of this month, I had the privilege of convening an extraordinary group of people at the inaugural...