“Why haven’t I made more money?”
It’s a big question. A lot of people find themselves having to ask it.
For a start, I’ll tell you my experience.
For one thing, I have a large number of complex, severe physical symptoms associated with mercury poisoning.
We were advised about the leaking mercury dental amalgam many years ago and knew my root canal tooth might be a big problem too.
Only recently have I had sufficient physical resilience — through the grace and generosity of our colleagues and collaborators in the Intuitive Community Media Network — to find and engage with a biological dental practice that can safely replace those amalgams and sort out the root canal tooth for me.
To move on it, it looks like I’ve got to have about $7700.
What were we saying just now about making money?
It isn’t as simple as that, of course.
In combination with the mercury poisoning, I’ve had to move through recovery from about a decade of compounded concussion injuries with severe neurological consequences…
…as well as the long-term damage my body has sustained from sexual assault, houselessness, and the stressors of human trafficking intersections.
So… that’s got to be someone who’s economically useless to everybody else, right?
I mean, that’s what so many people say, isn’t it?
Turns out, intersectional hardship, complex injuries, and resource scarcity are all happening in many ways to many, many people. Those in my location, in my family, in my communities — and all over the world.
They become societally isolated… truly, segregated… and economically excluded. Because they can’t get paying work.
The people this happens to become front-line economic innovators — or they die.
That’s also me.
I found out that I’m great at helping communities strengthen their people through and beyond these nightmare experiences; and I’m great at creating value for people in better-resourced situations to prevent their communities experiencing the same kinds of crisis.
But any value you create needs to be well-marketed — and the signal needs reach.
You’ve got to have enough function to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.
As you might have noticed… as unreliable as my function is on a day-to-day basis… I’m able to do quite a few powerful, remarkable things.
Getting hired for most jobs tends to have a sort of normative scope; and many people don’t see my work as valuable. It’s been challenging to find the people who do. Often, they’re already in hardship circumstances they really need my help with.
And I need their help too.
Because my body has been hit too hard now to go it alone.
But the Intuitive Network architecture we’ve built makes it possible for me to do the work I’m best at — so much so, in fact, that these successes can make my severe physical circumstance momentarily unrecognizable.
So I do the work for free — 24/7, for this past decade — until I’m paid for it.
But we’re here publishing and broadcasting because the economic impact of this work is unparalleled; and to flow funding here regenerates powerful community vitality.
As we have continued to collect more and more severely impacted people, the bravest of the brave, who have to work in the ways I work in order to achieve the amazing things we achieve…
…and to collect more and more amazing collaborators from better-resourced walks of life, with a tremendous diversity of directly relevant expertise…
…it becomes increasingly obvious that this work is more valuable than most.
That the challenge of it is a privilege; and profoundly a blessing.
We know every community must get involved.
Your most vulnerable community members need you now.
They are doing extraordinarily important work that must be recognized.
We here together are ending their isolation.