Future We Are Building

Today I gave a five-minute talk at Friday Group at Fox Point Farms — a place I had previously only seen in my dreams.

An agricommunity with farm animals, vegetable beds, open gathering spaces, a farmers market, locally made products, sustainable businesses. Nothing felt corporate or extractive. It felt intentional, collaborative, human.

It felt like the future.

We are living in a liminal time — especially in this space before the upcoming eclipse and the larger shifts unfolding collectively. Old systems are straining. Fear and scarcity narratives are loud. The structures that shaped business and success for decades are no longer sustainable.

But something else is emerging.

And it begins with awareness.

In my talk, I shared something that has transformed the way I see my work as a strategic CPA.

Our present financial situation is not random.

It is the cumulative result of our beliefs, our thoughts, our decisions, and our actions.

Financial statements are not just compliance documents. They are stories. They reveal what we value. They show where we operate from fear and where we operate from alignment.

Cash flow, especially, tells the truth. It is the life blood of a business. Without it, a business starves.

When I review financials, I am reading the story of thousands of micro-decisions. I can see where energy is circulating and where it is stuck. Where boldness created expansion. Where hesitation created contraction.

Knowledge gives power.
Tracking gives clarity.
Awareness allows intentional choice.

And right now, intentional choice matters.

We are being asked to examine not only how we make money, but why. What do we truly value? Freedom? Time? Creativity? Raising children consciously? Living lightly on the earth? Building community instead of competing for scarcity?

The businesses we build nourish our lives. They must align with our deeper mission — and with what sustains the planet and humanity.

Fox Point Farms reminded me that the new earth is not theoretical. It already exists in pockets. In communities. In conscious businesses. In collaborative spaces.

The question is whether we will align our decisions with that vision.

Where we place our energy grows.

I am choosing to place mine on vision.