A guide for overwhelmed entrepreneurs with hearts for justice and humanity who want to make a tangible difference in the world but aren’t sure where to start.

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Intro

No it’s not just you! It is so completely overwhelming, disorienting and frankly dystopian 😵‍💫 to exist in a world where you’re constantly watching what feels like an endless number of atrocities happening on the daily. We’re watching while multiple genocides happen in real time, while economies teeter on collapse creating extreme economic instability, water crises, xenophobic policies targeting vulnerable people trying to seek out better lives for themselves and their families, the acceleration of climate emergency, racial injustice continuing to persist, violence against and dwindling rights for queer folks and folks of marginalized gender around the world—and 100,000 other things that would take way too long to name here, but you get the point. We are truly living in the wet 💦 dream of genociders, enslavers, and power hungry abusers who believe that human lives, particularly those of Black and Brown folks, and health of our planet are an acceptable price to pay to feed their endless desires for money and domination…and this 👏🏽 shit 👏🏽 ain’t 👏🏽 it 👏🏽!

I wanted to put this reference guide/e-book together because I know more than likely that you are an entrepreneur that has a heart for humanity that probably won't let you settle for not doing anything as you bear witness to what’s happening around you— since we’re all impacted in one way or another by the injustices happening around us— and maybe figuring out what to do, or where to start is feeling like a struggle right now.

Don’t worry, I got you!

Below I’ve outlined some steps for how you can…

1️⃣ Get crystal clear around what what types of issues or injustices really activate your sense of duty/calling/passion.

2️⃣ Access some mental re-frames that will help you cut through the fog and uncertainty around how to show up and what to do, and get you thinking more strategically.

3️⃣ Consistently identify specific impactful actions you can take within a well defined scope/focus so you can operate from a space of “taking action as an important part of the collective” instead of “I’m in this alone and it’s all on me and nothing I do is gonna be enough.”

*Bonus Content for members of The Hive 🐝🍯 business mentorship & social impact activist community—*Coming July 26th 2025