About a decade ago "attorney, alchemist, and activist" M. Renée Orth was seized with the conviction of rightness as she received a vision: how to optimize capitalism such that it can be leveraged as a tool (rather than a weapon) to transform the present exploitive and extractive system to one rooted in the sacredness of life.

With substantially applicable legal experience under her belt, Renée first set out to deliver her vision by authoring a book - Conspiracy of Dreamers: Capitalism at the Service of Humanity. Kent will tell you it's a worthy investment and an engaging read.

In the decade hence, Renée has been busy putting her words into action, which reveals her vision as nearly prescient, considering the current economic and cultural conditions.

Renée has helped launch the Stone Soup Collective, whose mission is to “align the efforts of the Lowcountry to nourish our community through a buy one, give one plant-based soup collective.” Additionally, she is in the midst of launching Chrysalis Forest - an eco-monastery which aspires to "emphasize a gifting economy rather than a transactional, commodified one, contributing our unique gifts to the creation of a more just, sustainable and vital world and supporting others to do the same, and achieving a higher understanding of others through conscious empathy, humanism, and rejection of simplistic attributions."

Clearly, Renée is all about execution in alignment of her vision, and in this episode, Ruth Glendinning and Kent Dahlgren listen as she describes her journey, her values, her inspirations, and her intended path forward.