Every single day, I’m bombarded with another offer that’s trying to sell me OpTIMiZAtIon, Strategy, a curated AI bot unlike any other.

It’s all slop and none of it compels me.

I have spent 25+ years in the backend Architecting offerings and frameworks in service to those I call The Anomalous Hero’s.

The Weirdo Nerds, the Queer kids, the ADHD creatives…. Inmates, Elders with Dementia, the Trouble-Making kids. I have a SUPER high threshold for the things others run out of bandwidth for, and have been designing things to support the fringe-dwellers because I KNEW at some point it would be OUR TIME. (cue The Goonies — “Up there, it’s their time, it’s THEIR time, up there. Down here, it’s our time, it’s OUR time down here.”)

For real tho.

It’s our time.

And, it’s our time to BE UP THERE.

PAID AF.

SEEN AF.

LEADING the changing of the guard.

We’re the ones SKILLED at what’s needed in this precise moment in time.

All the trauma we faced and metabolized expanded our nervous systems. While the cool kids were clubbing and eating sushi, we were doing the hard shit of figuring out who we REALLY are, and creating better worlds and lives in our heads.

Some of us started as Anomalous Hero’s, hanging out in the underground and have lived modestly for a majority of our lives, stubbornly devoted to our ideals and art and pouring into our immediate communities — maybe to a martyring degree. It’s time for us to move into visibility, and lead culture.

Some of us were CATALYZED onto the Anomalous Hero’s Path. Maybe we were already successful before having the awakening, or maybe we’ve figured out how to fit into the establishment and have built successful lives from the outside — but inside there’s a constant low grade agitation because there’s a call to more coherence of inner and outer worlds.

It’s time to bring our greatest visions and gifts from the inside into view — band together and build.

6 Nuanced, Anomalous Hero Leader Archetypes birthed through me, and each gave me a seed codex on how WE can rise and steward the resources, and I DEEPLY want to share them with you.

Because our anomalies create extraordinary value.

The Igniter sees possibility in times when many are blinded by being enraptured with apocalypse.

The Architect creates opportunity for embodiment in times when many are seeking to return home to themselves and create something that lasts.

The Steward generates deep trust in an era of NOT THAT.

The Curator leads with discernment as we’re in conditions that require seeing what we’re blind to.

The Shape-Changer is transformation and leads us to skip the right steps. FAST.

The Alchemist creates meaning and brings the ineffable into felt form while we’re bleeding our attention spans into 5 sec reels.

We NEED these anomalous gifts to really be HUMAN again.

These are six ways of creating value.

Six different relationships with money.

Six different ways to lead an interruption to the flow of business as usual.

And one larger question:

What happens when we stop trying to monetize who we think we should be—and learn how to create an economy around who we actually are?