J. Friday
Hi, I'm Friday!I share Happy News about how people are building purposeful businesses in community, changing lives and creating wellbeing economies worldwide!Community is how we save the world by saving each other 💜
A STRATEGY TO UNITE EVERY MOVEMENT
You might not believe it, but a better world isn't only possible, it's already emerging.
And it has a simple blueprint.
What people are saying 💜
How it Works
There is no one unified message that unites the 300+ movements that place wellbeing at the center of our lives and economies.But there are proven blueprints and practical steps that give ordinary people practical steps to build this in their only lives while building systems that scale to take this global.Most people don't believe a better world is possible. But that's only because virtually no one knows a better one is already being built.We are shifting from the survival economy and problem-focused discourse, to solution-focused action with practical steps that builds a better world for everyone.
Connection Engine is launching now and our rhythms begin!Go to ConnectionEngine.io for sign up, updates, and to read over our vision and strategy doc. Your input is valued and we will move forward with the lexicon following the 7th of April meeting.
What to Do Next
Read our Connection Engine Info and Unified Messaging Strategy to Unite 300+ Movements. Comment and share -- the more feedback, the better our approach!
Get our ever-evolving, growing, and developing, Transformative Change Resource Guide.Transformative change community with practical steps and help coming soon.
Top Stories
A community owned rideshare is gaining traction in Colorado, paying drivers more while riders still pay less, and giving back to the community. A network of these people-owned rideshares is growing across the US. With public support, we could replace the megacorps in this sector in a very short timescale. Read More.
Deeper Dives
RESOURCES & GUIDES
A Blueprint for the Future
"This is a call to action. A blueprint. The map to an economy that actually works for people and planet."In his new book and action guide, Michael J. Muyot outlines how to build a Regenerative Economic Zone, showing how we're not waiting, we're building the future now.This isnʼt theory. This is already happening in places like Greenville,
Asheville, Chattanooga, and beyond. Join us and grab your copy here.
More Guides
The Democracy Collab’s Action Guide for Advancing Community Wealth Building in the US.For UK, see this guide from Economic Development Association Scotland.
J. Friday's Substack
"Changing the purpose of a system changes the whole game."Join me over on Substack, where we are making more of these guides available and sharing up to the minute news, resources, and education.
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This is how the system works
This graphic shows us where to put our energy. (Feel free to share it btw!)The world is one big system, and every day we are voting with our time, our money, and the community we contribute to for the world be believe is possible.But are you voting for the actions that take us out of extractive systems and into systems that put our wellbeing first?Follow the series on my Substack. Or see my pinned Tiktok for a video explanation.
LET'S TALK!
Speaking & PODCASTS
I speak about the transformative power of community wealth and wellbeing economies, sharing stories of how a new world that works for everyone is already being created by people just like you and me, and how we can leverage our actions and learn to help each other level up our lives while helping with the movement that's already happening.Please reach out about sharing these vital stories and strategies with your audience. I'd love to be on your podcast or show and share this happy news with more people!
WELLBEING ECONOMY
2024 WINS
🙋🏾♀️ In a large-scale survey in 17 G20 countries by Ipsos UK for Earth4All & Global Commons Alliance, 68% of people said the economy should prioritise the health and wellbeing of people and nature – not just increasing profits and wealth.
🗣️ Washington became the first US state to fund a People’s Assembly through the Washington Economic Justice Alliance.
🗞️ Major news outlets like the The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and the BBC covered beyond growth economics while documentaries like Outgrow the System, Purpose and Finding the Money helped reach new audiences.
Brazil’s Council for Sustainable Economic & Social Development of the Presidency recommended Brazil adopt a Wellbeing Economy Framework.
📈 UN member states embraced the need to move beyond GDP at the Summit of the Future.
🔌 Our Afrikan Liberation Hub held their first gathering while new hubs formed in England and Norway. A relaunch in Costa Rica takes the total number of WEAll hubs to 18.
💡 Nobel laureate Angus Deaton argued that mainstream economics needs a fundamental rethink. And the OECD OECD - OCDE platformed new economy thinkers like Darrick Hamilton Katherine Trebeck and Kate Raworth.
WHAT'S OUR DREAM?
COMING SOON
A film about two gardeners, dreams, Liverpool, community, and the power of helping each other to transform lives, communities, and the world.See Kieran's video here.
About
Hi. I'm Jess. Or J. Or Friday! Any of those work.You could say I'm your "Girl Friday" because I've spent a lifetime becoming a generalist. I've gotten a little bit good at a lot of things, just enough to put all I've learned together and realise why the systems we have in place don't work and how we can each take part in building a world that works for everyone.I believe that by combining business with community again and helping each other, we can all take part in saving the world as we save each other. And I'm on a mission to change beliefs around the world.A better world isn't only possible -- it's already being built by people just like you!Aside from that "unambitious" goal, I have an unreasonable amount of love for Liverpool, Wetherspoons, Jelly Belly, and my people. Which includes you if we ever work -- or play -- together, so reach out and let's connect!
SKILLS
Skills I can offer:
Speaking & Thought Leadership on:
Community Wealth & Wellbeing Economies
Marketing to Inspire a Global Shift
Leverage points for activists
Networking & referrals
Business development support
Projects
Projects I support or founded:
Villej (Prelaunch Startup)
HOW I CAN HELP
I speak about community wealth, the strategy that blends purpose, people, and planet into actions you can take to level up your life and your community while, as a byproduct, creating collective action that solves most of the global problems that challenge us today.This is my passion, and I'm always here to talk about how it can help you and your community. Invite me to your podcast or to come speak on stage and share these transformative techniques.
What is Community Wealth?
A movement is growing.A desire for community, for mental wellness and fulfilling work, for systems that enrich our economies or our ecosystems rather than damage them.Community wealth is a collection of strategies to solve these local and global problems with practical principles that can be summed up in a single sentence:Help Create Wealth Together with Purpose.
Each of those words stand for tactics that create systems for building lives we love while also co-creating a world that works for everyone.These are principles we can act on now, whether we're helping a friend who's struggling, making communities, or building a global platform cooperative that assists in scaling fairer, regenerative economies that are work for people and planet.
"I can't do great things.
But I can do small things.
And if we all do small things,
then together we can do a great thing"
Reece, G'Wed
The major building blocks of community wealth are businesses that prioritise purpose and cooperation over profit, along with initiatives that help us create wellbeing economies.
Building community wealth is about making each others lives better while creating a better world. We each vote daily with our money and our time -- actions that have far more impact than what we do at a ballot box.When we become community wealth minded, all those actions add up to create meaningful lives and more time with our loved ones. Collectively when many of us create these systems in our lives and communities, we make it easier for others to jump in and be a part of it, and then the world transforms as if on its own.As Reece from G'Wed said, "I can't do great things, but I can do small things. And if we all do small things, together we can do a great thing."Saving the world isn't about one plan or one solution. It's about us all taking the power back to save our worlds, to save each other and our communities.In the end, those are the connections that save us all.
Now we are creating a cultural revolution, shifting people's beliefs about what's possible. And we are building platforms that make it easier to start and transition to community business and to help one another freely at scale.Community wealth is the future.Sign up for the mailing list here and get news, get help when it's available in your area, or get involved with building a better life for you and a better world for us all.
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THE CONNECTION ENGINE
Cocreating a Community Wealth Cultural & Economic Movement
(Or rather, catalysing the one that is already there with the untapped potential of millions of people wanting to start businesses to escape the system)
UPDATE: Please see this document for how the strategy has developed since this Miro was made in January. You can also sign on to help spread the unified messaging campaign here or by contacting me.
Connection engine: Instead of us all having our separate funnels and communities, working separately, everyone funnels to the same onboarding system, which then connects people to communities to cocreate community wealth with. As a byproduct, it's a relationship builder and melting pot of people from vastly different backgrounds. We all just help each other find the places where we do belong, putting energy into the practical steps of community wealth that reshape our lives, our communities -- and the world.Watch the video and check out he Miro below. Currently need help just putting the low-tech systems and workflows in place, and then networking, networking, networking -- with a more polished version of what I've gone over. If interested in helping bring this to life or if you know anyone who would be, please reach out at [email protected] or join The Peoples Agency Discord.