# Portal Now

Connecting to yourself and the world.

Use the power you have.

## Navigation

- Me
- Work
- Community
- Civic

## Me

Express yourself.

Explore who you are, develop your story, and expand what lights you up. Embrace your power.

To accomplish anything, to do anything, to be ok as we are, to love anyone else: We must first love ourselves.

Alignment Switch: https://portalnow.as.me/schedule/29a960ed

"A lot of times you just wake up blue ... talk about it." - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, speaking about depression and guiding young men on What Now? with Trevor Noah

Source: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00dD8L9V1WOj8CS4hhQQPQ?t=2743

"I am mad at the ways that I have kept myself small." - Sjana Elise Earp, Instagram

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeAW9F6SesL/

Selected Roundtable excerpts:

- Knowing: "You can't give out of an empty cup and you're the only one who really knows how to fill it."
- Being: "This moment is all that is real. The past is gone and the future is wide open. Be now."
- Doing: "Doing has several forms: create, accomplish, provide. Doing brings us change."

## Work

Make a difference.

Do meaningful work, create value, and help build a more equitable economy. A new way of working is here.

Cut meetings by 90%.

Image link: https://www.riddlepublishing.com/fireyourboss

Topics:

- Autonomy: Maximize your autonomy so you can have the greatest impact.
- Alignment: Connect to aligned partners who backstop and support your efforts.
- Earn and own: Earn and own for yourself, with aligned partners.

Selected Roundtable excerpts:

- Ownership: "Make money with each other, not off each other."
- Value: "The focus is on what you produce that others value. Not how hard or long you worked."
- Alignment: "Partners that win when you win."

## Community

Be heard.

Find your people, share ideas, and build together. Stronger communities create a brighter world for everyone.

Discourse not discord.

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Topics:

- What do we think?: Groundsourcing collective consciousness.
- Mutual benefit: Finding our place.
- Belonging and inclusion: We are all us.

Selected Roundtable excerpts:

- Conversation: "Centerlining the conversation so we can see what others know and where we fit into the puzzle."
- Sharing: "Our ideas, our fears, our passions, our needs."
- Belonging: "Community that fits and thrives."

## Civic

Design government.

Engineering civic solutions for ourselves. Fixing the system so it works for the people. Tailoring civic budgets and proposals to our interests.

No one has to be in charge for us to decide what we want.

Image link: https://www.riddlepublishing.com/theredblueproblem

Topics:

- We the People: Party politics divides our collective voice and marginalizes the issues we agree on most.
- Representational government isn't: No one represents you as well as you do yourself.
- Civic innovation: Modern tools to shape our government.

Selected Roundtable excerpts:

- Voice: "No one represents you as well as you do yourself."
- Agreement: "Party politics divides our collective voice and marginalizes the issues we agree on most."
- Decision: "No one has to be in charge for us to decide what we want."

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