Imagine a pop-up market that funds hyper-local self-governance.

Imagine a self-funded, hyper-local, self-governing committee that breaks the cycles of generational trauma.

Anticipating a retreat in formal government that will leave the vulnerable behind, Ruth Glendinning and Kent Dahlgren have partnered to create an Anti-Fragile Playbook that will guide people through the steps necessary to launch and sustain their own renegade “pop-up” market that funds their community’s self-governance.

This self-governance model delivers hyper-local “earn and learn” programs encouraging people to become producers instead of just consumers, with an explicit focus on regenerative best practices.

In so doing, people become place-makers instead of just placeholders, producing their own wealth, on their terms.

At the heart of the whole thing is a model for short-circuiting the cycles of generational trauma, poverty, and abuse, designed by Ruth herself, and explicitly acknowledging the value of soft capital.

In Ruth’s words, this plan helps people “transact transformation.”

This community activation app was designed to address the challenges faced by charities seeking to secure hard capital in pursuit of their visions.

We do so by:

• helping the community generate hard capital themselves through a built-in business model that delivers economic rejuvenation and
  
• quantifying forms of soft capital, such as trust, wisdom, and attention.
  

In this episode:

Ruth Glendinning and Kent Dahlgren elaborate upon certain key topics regarding forms of soft and hard capital, and conclude with a brief overview of the Burnside Skatepark (an illegal skateboard park that's currently celebrating its 30th anniversary), as well as Ruth's experience with Community Renaissance Market, which landed her on ABC Nightly News for incubating several dozen local, organic businesses.