Entrepreneurship Lives Here

Technology provides many wonders, access to information, connection, and the opportunity to create wealth unlike any other time in human history. Yet the power of the technology is fraught with challenges. Combined with entrepreneurial knowhow, legal and economic practices, we live in a time of great hoarding, the hoarding of wealth, resources, real estate, even our time and attention. Entrepreneurship has lost what it should be, ways to build wealth and prosperity for individuals, families, and communities. Instead, we have created entrepreneurial systems designed to commoditize and scale; to extract wealth for the fastest and highest return possible. Eventually being sold to one of the big giant mega corporations. Hoarding wealth, and the acquisition of resources, and assets are considered acts of brilliance, when the people who commit to such practices do much harm to the overall collective livelihood of people and the planet. Today, the extraction and hoarding mentality are systematized and mainstream, in virtually every market from real estate to technology platforms, to everyday commercial goods. Trends show that innovation is the race to the bottom, to hoard and take as much of the marbles for yourself, creating mega-giant companies and an ultra-wealthy class. All the while, the data shows, the middle classes are shrinking and the quality of life for many is declining. Our innovations are leading us in the direction to create huge rental models for the future, where in a few short years, we will have a subscription for everything; where a few will own most resources, technology platforms, many will struggle to stay afloat. Innovation in the way it is currently done is not healthy. This podcast explores the human condition of the 21st century, technology, and our current business practices, having conversations with entrepreneurs, business leaders, innovators, thought leaders, policy makers, mental health leaders. The question becomes, how do we change the direction we are headed? Can we build a society that promotes the well-being for all?