Standing in line during the pandemic, six feet apart, mask on, strange small talk in the air, I told my friend Jeff something I meant.

I hope you make a million dollars.

Not because money is the point.
Because when you give good people resources, they do good things.
And their good work makes the world around them better.

This episode lives in a tension I keep bumping into.
Profit is not the problem. Money is not the threat.
The danger is when profit becomes the only voice in the room.
When it stops asking what the work is for and starts deciding who the work serves.

I want more voices at the table than that one.
Purpose. People. Trade offs. What we protect when it all gets real.

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Before You Listen:

• Where has profit gotten louder than purpose in my work?

• What trade off have I been avoiding naming?

• Who do I trust to do good if they’re given more?

• What part of who I am have I stopped noticing because it’s always been true?