Happy Valentine’s Day!
If you have not yet picked out a Valentine’s Day gift for someone you care about, consider offering them a little hope on a day devoted to love.
FountainBlue’s new book, Elevate Hope: From Mindset to Framework to Economy, is officially published today. I wrote it to help you cultivate a hopeful mindset and to provide practical ways to clarify goals, create pathways, step into agency, and nurture resilience for yourself, your team, and your organization.
What I did not anticipate was how energized and hopeful I would feel because of the dozens of editors, contributors, and commenters who generously shared their insights and encouragement over the past month. You walked with me through the sticky, messy middle of the process and helped elevate the content, the wisdom, and the impact.
We all benefit from your contributions, and I am deeply grateful to be building this Hope Economy with you.
If your name is not on the list of editors or contributors, you are still very much part of this story. By buying the book, sharing it with someone who needs it, and putting its tools into practice, you help co-create the Hope Economy this work envisions—one grounded in informed optimism, shared agency, and practical action in times of change.
As you read, email us to share what resonates for you, what you will try, what you suggest, and what you are hungry to build next. Your reflections will help shape where this work goes from here.
May your gifts of hope be well received, and may they ripple outward through the people and communities you touch.
My humble gratitude to you: Barbara Couturier, Cara Bilinski, Christina Lewis, Christine Hertzog, Colm Lysaght, Cynthia Dote, David Ortiz, Diana Pohle, Ellen Beck, Eunice Kim, Gopal Kumarappan, Helen Grays Jones, Julie Cullivan, Kaushal Vora, Lauren Larson, Lori Kate Smith, Mary Emerton, Melissa McDonell, Michael Gialis, Nancy Gilbert, Princey Chowdhury, Rajesh (Raj) Ramachander, Raymond Zheng, Sam Gupta, Sandy Orlando, Shari Moore, Shaya Fathali, Shobhana Viswanathan, Sonia Castillo, Tammy Sanders, Yvonne Thomson