Dear FountainBlue community,
Thank you to everyone that told me that the link for ordering my book wasn’t working - the link is https://a.co/d/c7Th2r8.
But there’s an exception worth making: the book I’ve been sharing has just been released, and I wanted to share both the message of the Hope Economy and the link to buy it: https://a.co/d/c7Th2r8.
More importantly, I’d like to share my thoughts on the Hope Economy.
These last few years have stretched many of us. Systems we trusted have wobbled, the rules keep changing, and even good news can feel fragile and temporary. When I wrote about Faith, Hope, and Choices earlier this year, I shared how I keep coming back to hope—not as blind optimism, but as a daily decision to keep building something better for ourselves and for others.
Then I realized that my thoughts on a “Hope Economy” didn’t just start this year. It’s part of my DNA. To me, a Hope Economy is collaborative and inclusive, other-centric and customer-focused, dynamic and agile, techphilic and future-embracing—and always centered on what’s human. It’s the opposite of a fear economy or a scarcity economy; it’s how we choose to work, lead, and innovate when the world feels noisy, divided, and uncertain.
Because it’s part of my DNA, I hope you’ve felt it in the events I’ve run and in the coaching, consulting, and advisory work I’ve done through FountainBlue over the past 20 years. But it’s bigger than that. It’s bigger than each of us individually.
Take, for example, this short video my daughter shared with me:
It’s a touchstone for me—a simple, powerful message of hope that reminds us why it’s worth continuing to show up and build, and why the time to build is now.
My Hope in an Age of Disillusionment book is my way of turning hope into something you can use—something that benefits others. My goal is to communicate that the Hope mindset is the foundation that leads to the Resilience to persevere, which in turn leads to the Clarity to understand, which in turn leads to the Agility to adapt.
We can’t control what’s coming at us, but we can lean on each other, hang on to our hope, and believe that things can get better.
This is the core message behind the nine narrative case studies in Part One and the practical toolkits in Part Two. My wish is that Hope becomes the foundation and center of the repeatable patterns and choices we make for leading in this time of amplified change.
Here’s my very direct ask:
Please buy the book. If you want more hope in your life, order a copy of Hope in an Age of Disillusionment for yourself—and, if you can, one for someone you coach, mentor, or lead: https://a.co/d/c7Th2r8. (Reply to this message if you’re on the list and I will Zelle or Venmo you your 20% discount if you purchase it in December.)
Use it as a guide. Bring the Hope → Resilience → Clarity → Agility lens into your planning, your conversations, and your decision-making, especially when things feel ambiguous.
Stay tuned for what’s next. Over the coming months, I’ll be hosting conversations, experiments, and programs focused on building this Hope Economy together—across companies, sectors, and communities.
Your support—reading, sharing, discussing, and yes, buying the book—signals that there is appetite for a different way of doing business and leading change. Thank you for walking this road with me, and for all the quiet, everyday ways you are already investing in hope.
With gratitude,
Linda