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"If we want healthier economies, better markets, freer commerce, healthier neighborhoods, better streets, less dependence on big disgusting tech — the energetic force that's going to make those things happen is you making more money by living your values. Plain and simple."
This is a special episode of Damns Given. Season two is wrapped, and while we're on hiatus through the end of August, Nick is sharing the town hall he'd been avoiding for months — the closest thing he's ever done to the full picture of what Trust-Made Growth is actually for, how the economy actually works right now, and what you can actually do about it.
Season three launches at the end of August with a new structure, an extraordinary guest lineup, and new ways to go deeper. In the meantime — this is worth your time.
The town hall is called The Expansion: Make More Money, Live Your Values, and Save the World. Nick opens with a thesis that runs against everything the cultural conversation is currently telling you: that making more money and living your values aren't in opposition. They're the only way forward. That if you want healthier economies, better markets, more human-scale businesses, and less dependence on extractive tech — the energetic force that makes that happen is you, building your venture, living your values, and generating more than you take.
He walks through the two games every business is playing — the Extractive Game and the Expansive Game — and what makes each one tick. He introduces the concept of the shitload fog — the compounding loneliness, overwhelm, anxiety, and distrust that every person you're trying to reach is carrying right now — and why your number one job is to move through it, not around it. He maps out the E7: the seven structural elements the economy needs rebuilt, and why at least one of them is you. And he walks through the practical path from rented growth to owned growth — what it actually looks like to move from being dependent on extractive platforms, extractive capital, and extractive selling models to building something that compounds over time in the direction you actually want to go.
This is the map. The book — The Damn Rules — comes out September 15th at damnrulesbook.com. This episode is the context that makes the map make sense.
Season three returns soon. Subscribe so you don't miss it.
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