The Regenerative Movement Needs Interdependence, Not Independence
Moving into coherence with RegenEarth Studio
🌱 We’re at a Turning Point — It’s Time to Cohere
In a moment where governments and corporations consolidate power in the name of resource control and extraction, I’ve been asking myself two big questions:
Why am I pursuing a vision that demands deep collaboration while still feeling isolated?
How can I respond to the need for grassroots organizing — not as one-off events, but as entirely new institutions?
These questions emerged from a string of projects that taught me the necessity of close-knit teams to carry and evolve work that goes beyond problem-solving and into system-shifting.
Working with Silvi on a community reforestation platform showed me the power of aligning energy across mission, business model, user experience, and technology. Miscommunication slows everything down — while continuous realignment accelerates progress.
Supporting E.A.S.E. in business model design sprints revealed how essential clear roles, shared direction, and deep values alignment are in the messy early stages of co-founding.
These projects were rewarding, but they also exposed a major gap in how I was moving forward with Interform.
The Missing Element: Interdependence
Running Interform as a solo enterprise with a loose collaborative ecosystem came with real drawbacks:
Difficult to lock in and sustain compelling positioning
Overwhelmed by the scope of the vision
Underwhelmed by capacity to execute
Nature thrives on interdependence: the mycelium that instantly shifts resources between trees, or the chorus of birds alerting each other to weather, predators, or food. I wanted my work to function that way too.
Thanks to the internet — and intuition — the right connection was only a phone call away.
Finding Coherence
On my first call with Eric from RegenEarth Studio, I shared my vision for thriving, innovative entrepreneur ecosystems in the Southwest and beyond — where regenerative projects in housing, energy, wellness, climate, food & ag, and education are not niche “extras” but essential for human survival and thriving.
Eric listened and said, “We’re basically building the same thing.” Then he showed me a Miro board that mirrored my own vision, expressed in different language and structures.
One of the most powerful aspects of RegenEarth Studio is how it embodies true interdependence — uniting projects, funders, and experts into a single collaborative organism.
When Eric mentioned they were seeking a co-founder, I was shocked. I’d never:
Seen a vision so closely match my own — yet with its own unique brilliance
Been invited to co-found something after a single conversation
Meeting the Other Half of the Vision
The next step was speaking with Kirsten, RegenEarth Studio’s other co-founder. While Eric was building out the Keystone Species portfolio, Kirsten had been stewarding RegenEarth Studio into an emergent community full of potential.
When we spoke, I realized she too:
Carried a massive vision while executing mostly alone
Held an unshakable commitment to balancing inner and outer work
Knew that support was necessary to bring the vision to life with integrity
We both felt the resonance — but also knew the cost of jumping in without ensuring true alignment of purpose, values, and vision.
Experimenting Together
We decided to run an experiment: I’d support marketing for their upcoming Bootcamp, where regenerative projects sprinted from idea to funding readiness.
It was bumpy at first — I made some humbling mistakes in early emails — but we worked through them and maintained good energy. The result? Six projects joined the Bootcamp, and their audience grew.
Taking the Leap into Interdependence
After the experiment, it was decision time. RegenEarth Studio had already built trust in the regenerative living space and delivered valuable cohorts. Now they were poised for an evolutionary leap into a fuller expression — a commons for knowledge exchange and a specialized space to deepen unique capabilities for Projects, Investors, and Experts.
I realized this was not the time for another partnership agreement. It was time to dissolve my solo structure and rebuild within RegenEarth Studio.
We will not build the institutions of the future with one-person teams. It’s time to come together, in service to a greater collective goal: Making Regenerative Living the Norm.
What’s Next
In our next meeting, I let them know: I, and Interform, are all in.
And that was the pivotal moment that opened the energetic space for a powerful collaboration to emerge.
We’ve since had a strategic deep-dive to align on vision, next steps, and the roles we’ll play. We’ll share more about that — and a deeper introduction to the Regenerative Living ecosystem — in the next article.
Shifting This Substack: From Systemic Change to Regenerative Living
We’ll still explore how to design, fund, and collaborate to create systems that serve life — but now under the RegenEarth Studio brand. Myself, Kirsten, and other leaders in the Regenaissance will bring you practical and expansive guides, plus spotlights on powerful initiatives we can move forward together.
You can look forward to:
The Nexus – a developmental and communal space where investors, entrepreneurs, and experts make regenerative living the norm through connection and learning
Convergences – nature-based gatherings to deepen connection and take collective action
The Foundry – an intensive space to level up as a regenerative project steward, building skills in business, regeneration, and community development
Wise Wealth - A transformative space to evolve as an impact investor - deepening regenerative practice through investing in paradigm-shifting projects.
And much more
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Thank you for tapping into this journey with us. We’re excited to move forward in interdependence toward a future where Regenerative Living is the new normal.
Now it’s your turn:
What do you want to know about Regenerative Living? Are you building a project in this space? What support would make the biggest difference for you?
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Seeing you don't have comments, I'm commenting to say that I don't know who this went to, but for anyone like me there isn't any meat here to follow up on, about what either of the projects did or will do. It's as if it's being read by people who know your history, but I don't. It came in my inbox, and I opened it because of the subject. Maybe you could take another shot at it and talk about what you are doing.