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I originally wrote this as part of a TEDx application.
I didn’t get selected, but the story still needed to be told.
This episode is my personal path to sovereignty. The throughline that connects childhood exposure to power, a formative experience on Wall Street at fourteen, years spent working beside executives and founders, and a decade of experimentation, building, and searching for what actually works.
It is not just a story. It is a pattern.
And it leads to one question that matters now more than ever.
If power becomes decentralized, are we prepared to hold it?
By Ashley CainesI originally wrote this as part of a TEDx application.
I didn’t get selected, but the story still needed to be told.
This episode is my personal path to sovereignty. The throughline that connects childhood exposure to power, a formative experience on Wall Street at fourteen, years spent working beside executives and founders, and a decade of experimentation, building, and searching for what actually works.
It is not just a story. It is a pattern.
And it leads to one question that matters now more than ever.
If power becomes decentralized, are we prepared to hold it?