I want to share a download I received last week that infused fresh hope into my work...

Here's the problem I was mulling over:

Capitalism is so enmeshed in our day-to-day lives that it feels impossible to dismantle.

To build autonomous replacements to our major systems — electricity, water, transportation, internet — would take BILLIONS of dollars. And most of us working to pay our monthly bills are far from thinking about generating the millions it takes to make infrastructure.

So the conversation around actually shifting paradigms hits a stalemate every time. Or stays in the highly theoretical realm. At most, we have hyper-localized solutions to smaller problems.

But no matter how brilliant our theories are, the same wall appears when we try to take on bigger systems.

Here's what I realized:

We've been treating all infrastructure as if it's the same — but it isn't.

There are actually two types of infrastructure: Heavy and Light.

Heavy infrastructure requires significant physical/industrial material, manpower, and maintenance — electricity, sewage, transportation, mass-produced goods. Making systemic changes to heavy infrastructure, locked under corporate and state control, is what feels impossible.

Light infrastructure can still involve physical work, but it relies on creativity, knowledge, community, or local networks instead of large industrial systems — education, entertainment, human services, locally produced food and goods.

Light infrastructure is where we're already seeing swaps happening... smaller, personalized, but often disjointed efforts around the world.

Imagine if...

Every dollar we spend beyond the heavy-infrastructure costs required for survival (rent, utilities, transportation) circulated inside a Liberatory Light Infrastructure.

A network of moral leaders, resource-generators, and re-distributors in reciprocal relationship with each other, the land, and the people they serve.

One shop's profit hardly makes a dent in contributing to heavy infrastructure changes. But together — under Indigenous land-stewardship guidance and accountable to the people of that place — a coalition of profitable yet non-extractive businesses could make significant, material, autonomous change to their communities.

Here's the hardest part: re-shaping collective culture to hold money collectively.

Our ancestral ways of collectively circulating and stewarding resources have been systematically suppressed by settler colonialism. Decolonizing education is non-negotiable for collective liberation. Not just for leaders, but for everyone participating in economic structures.

The good news? Light infrastructure IS the culture-shaping infrastructure — education and media. When we focus our liberation work on developing liberatory light infrastructure, we're simultaneously re-shaping culture and redirecting resources for collective abundance.

Think about all the re-distribution potential we could wield if we created light infrastructure networks that worked together to shift culture AND fund the heavier infrastructure alternatives that our lands and people need.

Many of you are already light infrastructure-makers, whether you realize it or not... educators, thought-leaders, service-providers, creators of sustainable, ethical solutions for your communities. Or, you're someone mastering industry skills while incubating a vision for your exit - knowing your life's work lies outside of extractive systems and in direct service to your land and people.

YOU are exactly who we need to form this web of infrastructure workers and wealth stewards.

Simone and I are doing this kind of infrastructure work for radical change in our course, Ancestral Wealth. On 11/19, we're holding our first live class together called 7 Figures for Liberation. It's free and open to all People of the Global Majority.

Whether you choose to enroll in the full 8-week practicum or not, we know that our ongoing connection to you matters for collective liberation.

We'll see you soon! Get ready to roll up your sleeves and do the work you've been craving for your whole life.