Much of what Ruth Glendinning and Kent Dahlgren aspire to deliver with the Anti-Fragile Wealth Production Engine is focused upon keeping people and families rooted within their communities, centered in their homes.

"From placeholder to place-makers," as they like to say.

Sooner or later, the question emerges: "how can we get more money?"

In the Podcast "How can we gain access to the money we need," Ruth and Kent provided a preview to the topic in an interview with Chris Cain, of Alternatives Federal Credit Union where they discussed various innovative funding models, including "character-based lending."

This podcast episode goes deeper, exploring alternative and complementary currencies as a foundation to a topic that will be discussed in much greater detail as Ruth and Kent evolve their own neighborhood pilot.

Is this about crypto (short for crypto-currencies, such as Bitcoin)? No, although the topic of "alternative currencies" is briefly discussed.

What's more appealing from the perspective of "placeholders to place-makers" are complementary currencies, such as the farinet - a complementary currency used in the Swiss city of Sion, valued at the same rate of the Swiss franc, and the Detroit Community Scrip, created in 2009 to help restore local financial confidence following decades of economic decline.