James opened the meeting with a guided meditation (11:57), inviting the team to close their eyes and remember that "everything good comes out of emptiness" (12:15). This moment of collective stillness set the tone for a meeting focused on coherence and aligned creative energy.
The session brought together Tess (founder of Gaia Warriors), James (leading the creative build), and Ellen (joining the project team) to explore the vision for Gaia Warriors and establish next steps toward a May launch.
Tess shared the heart of Gaia Warriors as a platform fundamentally about empowering the individual (16:17). Rather than putting others on pedestals, the project aims to help each person recognize themselves as a warrior for the planet, reclaiming their inherent power and divinity. The platform will create what Tess calls a "unified field" where personal healing transforms into collective action capable of real-world impact.
The model draws inspiration from powerful examples of collective coherence. Tess shared the story of Mayan elders in Guatemala who were forbidden from practicing ceremonies at their sacred sites (19:10). Through underground prayer and unified healing work, they created such strong coherence that they were able to reclaim their sacred sites and eventually shift the political landscape of their entire country. When asked how they accomplished this, the response was simple: "we prayed together, we're in ceremony together, we created coherence together" (19:44).
This principle of healing within to create change without forms the philosophical foundation of Gaia Warriors. As Tess emphasized, "so many communities aren't working out and projects aren't working out because people aren't healing themselves. The healing has to come from within first" (17:36).
The Gaia Warriors platform will integrate several key components:
Mystery School Element: The educational core will feature teachers offering courses on somatic healing, indigenous wisdom, and practices for nervous system regulation and embodiment (16:40). Tess is connecting with remarkable teachers, including one focused on "the new human creating new Earth" through somatic practices (17:12). The goal is to provide access to transformative teachings that help people reclaim their "inherent superpowers" and "birthrights of being" (18:35).
Directory System: A searchable directory will help members find and connect with each other, creating networks of support and collaboration (22:00). This feature is central to the May launch vision.
Experience Sharing Spaces: The platform will provide spaces for members to share experiences, challenges, and support each other both online and in person (22:20).
Cities of Light: Tess envisions local gatherings emerging in towns everywhere, creating what she calls "cities of light" where members do ceremony, healing work, and connection in person (22:32). The platform will support both digital and physical community building.
Transparent Fundraising: A unique feature will enable transparent, community-directed fundraising where corporations receive tax benefits for donations, but the community votes on where funds are directed (42:00). Progress will be documented through video updates showing real impact, addressing the widespread distrust of nonprofit corruption. As Tess put it, "I want people to feel like, oh, I want to give, but I want to actually choose where I'm giving to. And I want to actually see the gratifying reward of seeing the thing happen" (42:12).
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[technology="Community Facilitation Tools"]
James shared a meaningful synchronicity that deepened the sense of alignment (24:10). In 2016, he and a partner created Montaia, a co-living retreat project, and identified 12 archetypal "Idea Entities" they felt were essential to their mission. The first two were Gaia and the Warrior—the exact energies at the heart of this project. Those 12 archetypes also included magic, movement, empty space, the weaver, autonomy, hope, giving, service, adventure, creativity, and the journey, many of which resonate strongly with Gaia Warriors' ethos.
James reflected on how Montaia initially aimed to create a platform connecting spiritual centers and creators worldwide, but the technology wasn't ready. Now, nearly a decade later, the tools exist to build what they envisioned. He noted that "we have so many wonderful tools at our fingertips, and it's a special moment because the technology is moving so fast" (27:20).
The conversation explored the urgent need to create alternatives to corporate social media platforms. Tess expressed frustration with censorship and the vulnerability of building audiences on platforms where "another corporation can just take you down" (28:29). She's seen people lose years of work and thousands of followers in an instant.
James emphasized that mainstream platforms are "designed to sell whatever to the highest bidder" with algorithms that "promote the conflict kind of topics" (28:44). This makes it "a really important time to create our own networks and our own places of truth and our own interfaces that are more conducive to the coherence" Tess is speaking to (29:15).
The vision is to design the entire platform—down to proportions, colors, and tool choices—to embody coherence and create "a new kind of collective nervous system for meeting outside of those now tainted, corrupted structures" (30:12). The approach prioritizes building what works now without getting bogged down, then iterating based on real user feedback and community needs.
James described the underlying technology strategy as creating an "operating system or ecosystem of tool sets" rather than a centralized platform (36:30). This approach enables communities to run their own sites with tailored solutions while sharing a common tech stack that allows for easy cross-pollination of content, courses, and member profiles. Someone could take a course hosted on one community's site while accessing it through another, with their profile and contributions portable across the ecosystem. This creates "pathways to make it easier for people to affiliate and share content and share resources, like the wires behind the stages at a festival" (37:40).
Tess is working through the business model for integrating teachers' content (31:30). The initial vision is a membership around $33 per month that provides access to multiple courses. However, teachers with existing pricing models (like a $1000 course) are questioning how to translate that into a membership structure when initial member numbers are unknown.
The group explored several approaches:
Initial Simplicity: James suggested starting with Tess's own course while featuring different guest teachers in each module or month (33:53). This gives potential future course instructors exposure to the community while keeping the structure simple for launch. Teachers benefit from new audience reach, and their networks benefit from cross-exposure when they affiliate and share the content.
Affiliate Revenue Sharing: The platform can track which members come through specific affiliate links or coupon codes, enabling flexible revenue-sharing agreements (38:30). Teachers could earn a percentage of members who join through their promotion, and vice versa.
Sliding Scale Access: Tess wants to offer different membership tiers and eventually a "pay what you want" model (43:24), ensuring the platform remains inclusive rather than creating barriers to access. As Ellen noted, this "diversifies" who can participate and create change (43:42).
Pipeline Development: Ellen shared an example from the Future design community where affordable course launches (around $250) exposed students to teachers, who then converted some students into higher-ticket offerings on their own platforms (44:12). This creates a mutually beneficial pipeline where the platform provides volume and exposure while teachers maintain their own deeper offerings.
The philosophy balances "an equitable solution with a generous energy" (40:20). As James noted, "we want to encourage giving and start with recognizing the benefit of opening yourself up and sharing with other communities instead of protecting your content and putting everything behind a paywall" (40:28). The focus is on transmission and energy exchange rather than transactional barriers.
Tess is planning a May launch coordinated with her 40th birthday (50:50). The strategy centers on personal, heartfelt outreach rather than conventional marketing.
With contacts spanning three continents and multiple spiritual communities, Tess plans to "individually message every single person I have ever met or come into contact with" from her phone contacts (48:40). Her message will emphasize that "our paths came across for some reason" and invite people to support her soul purpose mission (49:10). She's hoping to inspire people not just to engage with Gaia Warriors, but to feel activated to launch their own projects and purposes.
The centerpiece is a launch video (currently being edited from about 90-120 minutes) featuring multiple teachers and articulating the Gaia Warriors vision (46:42). Tess's intuition tells her this video will be "really epic" and will "inspire and activate" people to want to share it (50:08). She plans to use her birthday as a hook, framing engagement and sharing as a birthday gift.
Beyond her immediate network, Tess is reading a book called "Launch" to explore additional strategies (50:40). The goal is to "get the hearts to feel activated" by offering people "a small step, a small thing that'll take you a couple minutes that's going to actually contribute to big change" (51:40). This taps into the widespread feeling of disempowerment and gives people an accessible way to feel like they "have purpose and meaning and contribute and belong and are part of something greater" (52:20).
A key part of the vision is establishing ambassadors in each town who can organize local gatherings, ceremonies, and in-person connections (52:50). These super users will be critical to the platform's success from the early stages. Ambassadors could be alerted when members are traveling to their area or when local events are being organized (53:11).
James and Ellen both volunteered to serve as ambassadors for Philadelphia and their respective communities (53:21).
The immediate next steps include:
Vision Session: James will design a longer, deeper vision session for next week to explore coherence, visual identity, narrative, storytelling, and the overall creative direction (54:00). He'll send Tess a questionnaire to contemplate and prompts for collecting inspiration and sources.
Timeline Development: The team will map out a timeline for the three to four months leading to launch, establishing a rhythm of weekly meetings or whatever structure serves the project best (54:30).
Creative Exploration: In this early phase, the focus is on opening to possibilities and exploring different directions through mood boarding, writing, and following creative impulses (54:50). As James noted, "we're not yet in the stage where we're kind of refining and reducing" (55:00).
Co-Creative Infrastructure: James will set up a shared space for files, resources, and collaboration (57:00).
Contract Review: Tess will review the contract James sent and raise any questions (57:30).
The process will bring in different creatives at different points as the project calls for specific expertise, with flexibility to adapt to what wants to emerge.
Tess
James
Ellen
James opened the meeting with a guided meditation (11:57), inviting the team to close their eyes and remember that "everything good comes out of emptiness" (12:15). This moment of collective stillness set the tone for a meeting focused on coherence and aligned creative energy.
The session brought together Tess (founder of Gaia Warriors), James (leading the creative build), and Ellen (joining the project team) to explore the vision for Gaia Warriors and establish next steps toward a May launch.
Tess shared the heart of Gaia Warriors as a platform fundamentally about empowering the individual (16:17). Rather than putting others on pedestals, the project aims to help each person recognize themselves as a warrior for the planet, reclaiming their inherent power and divinity. The platform will create what Tess calls a "unified field" where personal healing transforms into collective action capable of real-world impact.
The model draws inspiration from powerful examples of collective coherence. Tess shared the story of Mayan elders in Guatemala who were forbidden from practicing ceremonies at their sacred sites (19:10). Through underground prayer and unified healing work, they created such strong coherence that they were able to reclaim their sacred sites and eventually shift the political landscape of their entire country. When asked how they accomplished this, the response was simple: "we prayed together, we're in ceremony together, we created coherence together" (19:44).
This principle of healing within to create change without forms the philosophical foundation of Gaia Warriors. As Tess emphasized, "so many communities aren't working out and projects aren't working out because people aren't healing themselves. The healing has to come from within first" (17:36).
The Gaia Warriors platform will integrate several key components:
Mystery School Element: The educational core will feature teachers offering courses on somatic healing, indigenous wisdom, and practices for nervous system regulation and embodiment (16:40). Tess is connecting with remarkable teachers, including one focused on "the new human creating new Earth" through somatic practices (17:12). The goal is to provide access to transformative teachings that help people reclaim their "inherent superpowers" and "birthrights of being" (18:35).
Directory System: A searchable directory will help members find and connect with each other, creating networks of support and collaboration (22:00). This feature is central to the May launch vision.
Experience Sharing Spaces: The platform will provide spaces for members to share experiences, challenges, and support each other both online and in person (22:20).
Cities of Light: Tess envisions local gatherings emerging in towns everywhere, creating what she calls "cities of light" where members do ceremony, healing work, and connection in person (22:32). The platform will support both digital and physical community building.
Transparent Fundraising: A unique feature will enable transparent, community-directed fundraising where corporations receive tax benefits for donations, but the community votes on where funds are directed (42:00). Progress will be documented through video updates showing real impact, addressing the widespread distrust of nonprofit corruption. As Tess put it, "I want people to feel like, oh, I want to give, but I want to actually choose where I'm giving to. And I want to actually see the gratifying reward of seeing the thing happen" (42:12).
[technology="Directory Systems"]
[technology="Online Learning Platforms"]
[technology="Community Facilitation Tools"]
James shared a meaningful synchronicity that deepened the sense of alignment (24:10). In 2016, he and a partner created Montaia, a co-living retreat project, and identified 12 archetypal "Idea Entities" they felt were essential to their mission. The first two were Gaia and the Warrior—the exact energies at the heart of this project. Those 12 archetypes also included magic, movement, empty space, the weaver, autonomy, hope, giving, service, adventure, creativity, and the journey, many of which resonate strongly with Gaia Warriors' ethos.
James reflected on how Montaia initially aimed to create a platform connecting spiritual centers and creators worldwide, but the technology wasn't ready. Now, nearly a decade later, the tools exist to build what they envisioned. He noted that "we have so many wonderful tools at our fingertips, and it's a special moment because the technology is moving so fast" (27:20).
The conversation explored the urgent need to create alternatives to corporate social media platforms. Tess expressed frustration with censorship and the vulnerability of building audiences on platforms where "another corporation can just take you down" (28:29). She's seen people lose years of work and thousands of followers in an instant.
James emphasized that mainstream platforms are "designed to sell whatever to the highest bidder" with algorithms that "promote the conflict kind of topics" (28:44). This makes it "a really important time to create our own networks and our own places of truth and our own interfaces that are more conducive to the coherence" Tess is speaking to (29:15).
The vision is to design the entire platform—down to proportions, colors, and tool choices—to embody coherence and create "a new kind of collective nervous system for meeting outside of those now tainted, corrupted structures" (30:12). The approach prioritizes building what works now without getting bogged down, then iterating based on real user feedback and community needs.
James described the underlying technology strategy as creating an "operating system or ecosystem of tool sets" rather than a centralized platform (36:30). This approach enables communities to run their own sites with tailored solutions while sharing a common tech stack that allows for easy cross-pollination of content, courses, and member profiles. Someone could take a course hosted on one community's site while accessing it through another, with their profile and contributions portable across the ecosystem. This creates "pathways to make it easier for people to affiliate and share content and share resources, like the wires behind the stages at a festival" (37:40).
Tess is working through the business model for integrating teachers' content (31:30). The initial vision is a membership around $33 per month that provides access to multiple courses. However, teachers with existing pricing models (like a $1000 course) are questioning how to translate that into a membership structure when initial member numbers are unknown.
The group explored several approaches:
Initial Simplicity: James suggested starting with Tess's own course while featuring different guest teachers in each module or month (33:53). This gives potential future course instructors exposure to the community while keeping the structure simple for launch. Teachers benefit from new audience reach, and their networks benefit from cross-exposure when they affiliate and share the content.
Affiliate Revenue Sharing: The platform can track which members come through specific affiliate links or coupon codes, enabling flexible revenue-sharing agreements (38:30). Teachers could earn a percentage of members who join through their promotion, and vice versa.
Sliding Scale Access: Tess wants to offer different membership tiers and eventually a "pay what you want" model (43:24), ensuring the platform remains inclusive rather than creating barriers to access. As Ellen noted, this "diversifies" who can participate and create change (43:42).
Pipeline Development: Ellen shared an example from the Future design community where affordable course launches (around $250) exposed students to teachers, who then converted some students into higher-ticket offerings on their own platforms (44:12). This creates a mutually beneficial pipeline where the platform provides volume and exposure while teachers maintain their own deeper offerings.
The philosophy balances "an equitable solution with a generous energy" (40:20). As James noted, "we want to encourage giving and start with recognizing the benefit of opening yourself up and sharing with other communities instead of protecting your content and putting everything behind a paywall" (40:28). The focus is on transmission and energy exchange rather than transactional barriers.
Tess is planning a May launch coordinated with her 40th birthday (50:50). The strategy centers on personal, heartfelt outreach rather than conventional marketing.
With contacts spanning three continents and multiple spiritual communities, Tess plans to "individually message every single person I have ever met or come into contact with" from her phone contacts (48:40). Her message will emphasize that "our paths came across for some reason" and invite people to support her soul purpose mission (49:10). She's hoping to inspire people not just to engage with Gaia Warriors, but to feel activated to launch their own projects and purposes.
The centerpiece is a launch video (currently being edited from about 90-120 minutes) featuring multiple teachers and articulating the Gaia Warriors vision (46:42). Tess's intuition tells her this video will be "really epic" and will "inspire and activate" people to want to share it (50:08). She plans to use her birthday as a hook, framing engagement and sharing as a birthday gift.
Beyond her immediate network, Tess is reading a book called "Launch" to explore additional strategies (50:40). The goal is to "get the hearts to feel activated" by offering people "a small step, a small thing that'll take you a couple minutes that's going to actually contribute to big change" (51:40). This taps into the widespread feeling of disempowerment and gives people an accessible way to feel like they "have purpose and meaning and contribute and belong and are part of something greater" (52:20).
A key part of the vision is establishing ambassadors in each town who can organize local gatherings, ceremonies, and in-person connections (52:50). These super users will be critical to the platform's success from the early stages. Ambassadors could be alerted when members are traveling to their area or when local events are being organized (53:11).
James and Ellen both volunteered to serve as ambassadors for Philadelphia and their respective communities (53:21).
The immediate next steps include:
Vision Session: James will design a longer, deeper vision session for next week to explore coherence, visual identity, narrative, storytelling, and the overall creative direction (54:00). He'll send Tess a questionnaire to contemplate and prompts for collecting inspiration and sources.
Timeline Development: The team will map out a timeline for the three to four months leading to launch, establishing a rhythm of weekly meetings or whatever structure serves the project best (54:30).
Creative Exploration: In this early phase, the focus is on opening to possibilities and exploring different directions through mood boarding, writing, and following creative impulses (54:50). As James noted, "we're not yet in the stage where we're kind of refining and reducing" (55:00).
Co-Creative Infrastructure: James will set up a shared space for files, resources, and collaboration (57:00).
Contract Review: Tess will review the contract James sent and raise any questions (57:30).
The process will bring in different creatives at different points as the project calls for specific expertise, with flexibility to adapt to what wants to emerge.
Tess
James
Ellen
Participate in upcoming vision session
January 22, 2026
Attend and contribute to longer vision session next week exploring coherence, visual identity, narrative, and creative direction for Gaia Warriors platform.
Initial vision work, questionnaire, and strategic planning for Gaia Warriors platform launch. Includes longer vision session to explore coherence, visual identity, narrative, storytelling, and creative direction. This foundational work will inform all subsequent development phases.
Build custom membership system with multi-tier access (including sliding scale and 'pay what you want' options), subscription management through Stripe, affiliate tracking with revenue sharing, and secure authentication. System must support flexible pricing models to ensure platform remains inclusive while sustaining teachers and operations.
Complete brand identity and website design for Gaia Warriors platform. Design will embody coherence principles through proportions, colors, and interface choices that create 'a new kind of collective nervous system.' Includes mood boarding, visual exploration, and establishing design system that will guide all platform development.
Build searchable member directory to help Gaia Warriors members find and connect with each other. Directory is central to May launch vision (22:00). System should support ambassador identification, location-based connections, and facilitate both online and in-person community building. Will need to integrate with member profiles and support travel notifications for ambassadors.
Coordinate May launch campaign including finalization of launch video (90-120 min featuring teachers), personal outreach strategy across three continents, ambassador recruitment, and activation messaging. Campaign centers on Tess's 40th birthday as launch hook, with heartfelt personal outreach to inspire network participation and project activation.
(Future Ideas) - Build community facilitation features including experience sharing spaces, ambassador system with local event coordination, and tools for organizing 'cities of light' gatherings. Features should support both online interaction and in-person community building, with ambassador alerts for traveling members and local events.
(Future Ideas) - Build unique transparent fundraising system where community votes on fund allocation, corporations receive tax benefits, and progress is documented through video updates showing real impact. System addresses nonprofit corruption concerns by creating radical transparency and community direction of resources.
(Future Ideas) - Develop mystery school component featuring courses from Tess and guest teachers on somatic healing, indigenous wisdom, nervous system regulation, and embodiment practices. Platform needs to support flexible business models including membership access, affiliate tracking, and revenue sharing. Initial launch will feature Tess's course with different guest teachers in modules.
(Future Ideas)
Design system for collecting feedback / input (AirTable form)
00:08:40
Gaia Warriors: Hi. Sorry about that.
00:08:42
James Redenbaugh: Hi, Tess. No worries. How are you?
00:08:45
Gaia Warriors: I had to join at 11. 11. You know, I had to have the timing just.
00:08:49
James Redenbaugh: Oh yeah, I should have. I should have known. I should have scheduled it.
00:08:55
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. Happy New Year. Yeah, Happy New Year. Hi, Ella. Nice to meet you.
00:08:59
James Redenbaugh: Hey.
00:09:00
Ellen S: Very nice to meet you, Tess. Hi.
00:09:02
Gaia Warriors: Hi.
00:09:03
James Redenbaugh: Happy to introduce you too. How's your year going so far, Tess?
00:09:08
Gaia Warriors: It's going pretty good. I just. I got myself an ozone machine, so that's. I was just on an ozone class from, from just before this. That's why there was a little overlap. But yeah, I'm. I'm. I'm doing some big healing, so I'm excited about that. I feel like I need to prepare my body and mind and soul to do this launch of my project. I have to be in a good sovereign way, so.
00:09:33
James Redenbaugh: Awesome.
00:09:34
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. What about you guys? How's New Year's for you guys?
00:09:40
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, for me. It's been great. Lots of time cuddling with our kittens and taking care of that. And other than that, just head, head down in the computer, building lots of new things and restructuring things for the new year and getting really excited about this year.
00:10:03
Gaia Warriors: Awesome. Me too. What about you, Ellen? You've had a good year?
00:10:08
Ellen S: Yes, excellent so far. Yeah, it's like changes afoot. There's so much going on.
00:10:15
James Redenbaugh: So.
00:10:16
Ellen S: So I'm really pleased with that.
00:10:20
Gaia Warriors: This is going to be a good year of creation. And the horse. And I'm done with the snake shedding. Yeah.
00:10:28
Ellen S: More horse, please.
00:10:29
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:32
Ellen S: Because I'm like a horse by my year. Birth year and. Oh, you are like, especially, you know.
00:10:39
Gaia Warriors: That's awesome.
00:10:40
Ellen S: Anyways.
00:10:40
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, nice. Yeah, we have another month of Snake.
00:10:45
Ellen S: All right.
00:10:46
Gaia Warriors: One more month. Get through it.
00:10:49
James Redenbaugh: To prepare. To prepare. Yeah. Been telling my wife about our New Year's resolutions. Like, you know, it's okay. We can take it easy right now. We don't have to jump into every new habit. We got another month of Snake here and then hit the ground running.
00:11:10
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, exactly. Enjoy the slow pace before it goes really crazy out there.
00:11:18
James Redenbaugh: So I'm so glad to be here and to be kicking off this project. The main purpose of the call today is to say hello and touch base and talk about the timeline and what we're building together and how we'll design our time together and. Yeah, take on this. This creative build. And so before we jump into all of that, I thought it'd be a good idea to just have, like, a few moments of. Of silence.
00:11:56
Gaia Warriors: Okay.
00:11:57
James Redenbaugh: Like a moment or two. Maybe we can close our eyes for a minute, then notice our breath and remember that everything in our universe, everything good, comes out of emptiness. So let's just let everything go and let everything be as it is for one minute.
00:12:56
Gaia Warriors: It.
00:13:44
James Redenbaugh: We can open our eyes now, see each other.
00:13:50
Gaia Warriors: Thanks for doing that. That was amazing.
00:13:53
James Redenbaugh: Thank you, guys. So, Gaia warriors, I want to give you a chance, Tess, to share more about this project in your own words. Whatever feels relevant. We've talked about it. I'm curious what's been alive for you since our last conversation? Ellen's just starting to get to know it. And. And I'll preface it by saying that projects like these are. Are not the words we have to describe them. You know, they're. They. They aren't the website that will build for them. They're not merely an image or something that we point to. I really believe that, like a human being, these things are beings with Energy and intelligence and integrity and wholeness. And we get to know them and. And we come to understand how to best serve them and help them do good in this world. And this is something that you've been stewarding. You know, it's like a child. It's. It's of you, it's coming through you. And as I'm sure you know, it has its own momentum and intention. And over the course of this project, I want to really get to know it and make it easier for you to be in service to its growth and development and bring other people into it and help it go from being an idea to being a platform that people can use and beat action in this world and connection and resource and real things. So I think we all know these things in different ways, but I just wanted to. To lead with that and ask, like, how. Tess, how would you describe this project today?
00:16:17
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, thanks, James. I just. I feel a lot of resonance with you and the way that you view things, and it's just. It makes me feel so much more confident moving forward that there's a resonance there, because I feel like that is what's so important in this world is to. To get everybody in resonance. When we're in resonance, we in coherence. We can move mountains, really. And so I'm definitely. This project has evolved a lot, and I think the way that I have it now feels the most in line with what the creator wants me to bring through. So, yeah, I think what Gaia Warrior is really the most important thing that I would say is that I really want to empower the individual. I want the person to feel like they are a warrior for the planet. And I think that so many of these platforms, we tend to put other people on pedestals or, you know, we tend to think that we can't make change in the world because we're just one person, but that's not true. Like, we. We have so much power in our remembrance and our divinity, and. And so Gaia warriors really is about empowering the individual first and foremost and then becoming a unified field that we can make global impact. So, yeah, it's different things. It's like. It's a mystery school element, which I am very excited about, because the person that I just had a class with now, she's such an incredible teacher, and God is just introducing me to these amazing people in the world, and I'm like, wow, if everybody had to just have a class with this woman, what groundbreaking changes this world would have? And so I'm so grateful Because I feel like I'm that piece, like I'm gonna bring her in and she's got these codes about how to. Her whole thing is about the new, new human creating new Earth. And she, she's doing it through somatics. Because I feel like so many people are traumatized and the things, the reason why things aren't working in this world is because we're projecting all of our traumas on each other and the communities aren't working out and, and projects aren't working out because people aren't healing themselves. It has to come. The healing has to come from within first. So that's what I'm going to focus on, is getting these amazing teachers to come on and teach us how to heal from within. And then once we can heal from within, we can start taking action as a unified field. And, you know, I always like to use this example. You look at the monks in Tibet, you know, they're, they're born with these amazing teachers with them, and they're using their, their. They've. They know how to do the indigenous ways of being sustainable and sovereign. And they've, they've not been colonized or westernized and everything. And through mantras and meditation, they're able to levitate. I mean, there's scientists that have seen these, these monks levitating and they're actually off the ground. And we all have those powers. We all have that ability to do these things, but we've been so, so distracted and programmed and all these things. So I'm getting all these teachers to come teach us how to bring back our inherent superpowers, our birthrights of being. Yeah, so that's the main thing is I'm getting these, the mystery school element is getting these teachers to come on. And we're not going to be doing it alone. We're doing it together as a unified field. And once we can do that healing and we can create coherence, then we can make changes in the world. So, like, even a Mayan elder that I just interviewed, he, his. The whole of Guatemala, the Mayan people got told that they weren't allowed to do ceremonies. So they all went underground and they were praying underground because they weren't allowed to pray at their sacred sites. And then after praying so much underground, they created so much coherence between the Mayan people. They became one unified people, unity, consciousness. And then with that one field, they started storming the freaking sacred sacred sites. And they're like, we know we're allowed to pray and we're not going to stop you from stopping us. So they, they basically alchemized the fear and the control within them by doing ceremony, by healing as a unified field, that they stormed these sacred sites and they've taken their country back. And now the last four presidents have had to quit because the Mayan people have taken their country. They are now in control of their country. And I was like, how did you do that? And he's like, we prayed together. We're in ceremony together. We created coherence together. So Gaia warriors is about creating coherence. We get a number of people that care about the planet to do healing, to do somatics. I'm going to do different challenges, how to heal our body grounding, like, just different things that I have learned and that my friends have learned about how to bring us back into a state of homeostasis, getting our nervous system regulated once we're in that state together. And there's different ways of doing that, we can form a unified field and then we can take our power back as a unified field. So that's what the. That's what the ethos of Gaia warriors is, is about doing that healing within us. And then as a unified field together, then we can, like, be like, no, you're not cutting that forest down. No, you're not doing this one thing, you know, no, you're not putting these 5G towers up like, no, we're going to take our power back and reclaim our sovereignty. And. Yeah, so that's basically what guy war is in a nutshell. Yeah.
00:21:54
James Redenbaugh: Amazing.
00:21:56
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. And so the website will have the directory so we can find each other. It'll have the educational content. It will have a place where we can share our experiences with each other, where we can just connect with each other in person and online. And I see these, like, cities of light being created in every town where these people gather. And we, we do things together. We do ceremony in person together. We do healings together. We share our experiences, share our challenges, share everything together. And yeah, so the online places where we can meet and then in person as well. So, yeah, so we're not doing this alone. So many of us feel like we're doing this alone. And I want to unify us again. Unify and amplify. That's what I was thinking. My tagline was going to be.
00:22:42
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. Wonderful. I have to show you, though, speaking of resonance, because what you're sharing resonates so deeply and I can't believe I haven't thought of this before, but Montaia was a company I started in 2016, 10 years ago now with a partner who was in California. And before we ever even met in person, we, we were both struck by this impulse. Like we felt like there was something in the space between us that wanted to be, that wanted to become. And it felt so clear and yet it was nuanced and, and new and intangible and, you know, long story short, that it became its own thing. It was a long, a long journey together and went through many different phases. But at the very onset, I was just looking at this. I made this in 2016 and we had these, we called them the Council or the Idea Entities. And they were these 12 archetypes that we identified as being important to the mission of Mantaya and what we wanted to bring in to the world. And I just realized the first one is Gaia right here. You know, it came very clearly our connection to the Earth, you know, and all of these different things. And the second one was, you know, it told us its name was Alfred or Ali and was this red entity, but it's the warrior. It's the warrior energy.
00:24:46
Gaia Warriors: Wow, that's cool. That's a cool synchronicity.
00:24:50
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. And it's like, oh crap, the first two. And these 12 things have really lived with me since then. And you know, the first two are these, you know, this kind of polar pair. They're very specific and I, I forgot how, How relevant that name is to me. And I'll just, you know, we also have magic, movement, Empty space, the Weaver, Autonomy, Hope, giving, service, adventure, creativity and the journey.
00:25:47
Gaia Warriors: Wow, I love that.
00:25:50
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, I know. Those are relevant archetypes as well.
00:25:57
Gaia Warriors: We should see how we can weave or combine them somehow.
00:26:02
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Montaya became a, a co living retreat experience. We would host these co living experiments where we would bring people together in spaces around the world and experiment in different models of living together with different themes. And it's still going on, Kayla's still running it in, in California and doing different things and. But initially we did have this idea to create a platform for connecting people and spiritual centers and creators around the world. And at the time the technology was just not there for what we wanted to do. It became a very big, very expensive development process. And you know, eventually we realized like, it's just not going to be worth it and we, we shift focus to the co living stuff and I kept doing my creative studio and now the technology is very much here. You know, more than ever. We, we have so many wonderful tools at our, at our fingertips. And it's a special moment because I feel the, the technology is moving so fast that a few years from now, the Internet is going to look very different from how it is now. And I think it's a very kind of thing, like Web5. You know, we're going to get Web Web5 before we know it. I think it'll be more decentralized, more distributed, more intelligent, more iteratable, and will be less, less reliant and less active on things like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.
00:28:10
Gaia Warriors: Thank God.
00:28:11
Ellen S: You know, may it be so. I know that's like, really, that's. Look at that.
00:28:16
Gaia Warriors: I'm so done with the censoring and like, and, and feeling like you, another corporation can just take you down. Like, I've had people that have had their pages that they've built up for years, thousands and thousands of followers, all gone in like an instant.
00:28:31
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, yeah.
00:28:33
Gaia Warriors: Messed up.
00:28:34
James Redenbaugh: And even if you're on there, it's like the whole thing's designed to sell whatever to the highest bidder and to.
00:28:44
Gaia Warriors: The algorithms are for conflict. Like, they promote the conflict kind of topics. Yeah, yeah.
00:28:53
James Redenbaugh: And so it's a really important time to, to create our own networks and our own places of truth and our own interfaces that are more conducive to the coherence that you. You're speaking to. And, and the opportunity we have is to design the whole thing to be coherent with that energy. Even, even the details, even the, the simplicity of it. You know, the simple parts. Getting to consciously decide on the proportions and the colors and the tools that we're using. We can create a new kind of collective nervous system for meeting outside of those now tainted, corrupted structures. So no small task. And, and I think the name of the game is like, Is going to be to build, build what will work for us now in a way where we don't get too bogged in the, in any one part of it and then get it in front of people and get people testing it and giving feedback and enrolling the support of others in, in. In what will work well for them because, you know, what will work well for the three of us might not work for the Mayan elder, and we want it to work for him too. You know, we want it to, to work for everybody and give everybody who's meant to be involved. So I'm rambling now, but.
00:31:03
Gaia Warriors: No, you're not. I, I love everything that you shared.
00:31:07
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. My camera has just died unfortunately. I'm going to swap out my battery real quick. But while I do that. Can you tell us more about what's about Gaia warriors and what's relevant for us to hear right now?
00:31:26
Gaia Warriors: Relevant for you guys to hear right now?
00:31:30
Ellen S: Excuse me.
00:31:39
Gaia Warriors: I guess something that I'm really pondering with right now is the business structural model of it. Because, for instance, I have this woman that I want as a teacher. She's. She's got this workshop series that she's selling for a specific price, and I want to feature that as on my. On my channel. And she wants to do it, but I'm wanting to do, like, a monthly membership where people pay, like, I don't know, $33 a month or something and they can access her course. But now she's like, well, I'm. So she's selling it for, like, you know, however much a thousand or whatever. But for me, I want to get, like, quantity of, like. Well, if I have a thousand people paying $33, that's, you know, 33,000, and then I can pay you 20 of that or whatever, you know. So I'm trying to figure out how to do this because I don't know how many members I'm going to get or how fast it will take, like, you know, know, I don't know those numbers right now. So I was thinking for the mystery school element part, that I was going to offer just my own Gaia warriors course as the first educational content while I build up the members and while I. And then I can start seeing what numbers I can then offer these teachers for their content. So that is something I'm figuring out right now. Her and I just had, like, a big chat about it. You know, she wants to. She wants to be. Because I feel like what Gaia worries will be more is like, the marketing tool, like, we're going to galvanize the masses and bring them to these teachers. Like, she's really. She doesn't want to do marketing or tech. She's just. She's in her 60s and she's just got her wisdom and she just wants to share it. You know, I want to offer that part to her, but it's just a little unclear now of what contracts I can make with these different teachers yet until I know more numbers and members and stuff. So I think I'm gonna have to just do my own educational content first, which I have. I've been building out a course already, but, yeah, so that's something that I was like, huh? The business structure thing, I'm still learning. It's not always my most strong point. Is the, the business model. But I'm getting, yeah.
00:33:53
James Redenbaugh: I think in the beginning, simple is going to, like, the best route is going to be somewhat simple. And you know, you, for example, you could consider focusing on your course, but maybe each month or each module you're featuring a different teacher, the kind of teacher that you want to be on the platform that you want to have a whole course on there. But initially it's just giving people a taste which, which benefits the teacher, brings more eyes in front of them and also benefits them being involved from the beginning, you know, helping lay the groundwork for this new platform that hopefully they'll have a symbiotic relationship with for a long time. But it's a simple access point for people to see, oh, one course, all these people, and maybe they're interested in, or they know about two or three of those people off the bat, but they're like, oh, this person's teaching a course with, with this other person. Maybe that'll be interesting for me as well. And if you can get all the people that you involve to affiliate it, it can be really mutually beneficial for everyone. If they're sharing that course with their network, then all these networks get cross exposure and everybody wins. And in the long term, the ecosystem that we're building and the technology that we're building is built for that. Where we want, you know, more and more people to use our tools for running their courses and their directories and their membership sites in ways that are tailored to them and meet their needs and purposes and models. But it's kind of like it's. It's not a platform like Kajabi where it's a website and people, you know, have to go there. It's. It's more like an operating system or an ecosystem of tool sets that can empower people to find these technical solutions that they need without needing to be on those platforms. But then the big opportunity is that with everything in a shared language and a shared tech stack, it makes it really easy to interoperate content and courses and profiles. So somebody could have a course running simultaneously on multiple platforms at once, and all they have to do is run their course. But the students might be from your website, from their website, from another website, accessing it through that community that they're familiar with, but getting exposed to this new content and interacting with people from these other communities, and then they can even go to another community and already have their profile and their information and whatever they're sharing about themselves and what they're doing in the World over, over there. So we have a lot of clients already in these similar spaces doing similar but different kinds of things. And we're trying to create these pathways to make it easier for people to affiliate and share content and share resources. Like the, like these wires behind the stages. Like it's. Yeah, like you have your stage or your camp at a festival, but there's this big festival going on with all kinds of things. Anyway, that's, that's the long term plan and part of why we're building these technologies in the way that we are now to make them not only hyper tailorable and customizable, but also enable that kind of sharing in the short term. There are different kinds of affiliation that are possible and tracking. So if, if you're affiliating with somebody, whether it's their course or they're a part of your course, you can have links and coupon codes and things like that that are just for them. So you can see how many people, how many signups, whether it's a 1:1 off price or a membership came through them and how many came through another person. And you can design agreements based on that as well. Like they get a, a percentage of everybody that comes through them. And that can work the other way as well where you get a percentage of everybody that comes to them through you.
00:39:37
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, that's great. I think that's really important because I feel like this, we're so fragmented. We need to figure out how we can support each other and cross pollinate in a way that's mutually beneficial for everybody. So, so I love that guys are working on that. It makes me very happy and excited.
00:39:52
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. And the challenge is balancing like a, like an equitable solution with a, a generous energy. Like we want to encourage giving, you know, and start with like recognizing the, the, the benefit of opening yourself up and sharing with other communities instead of kind of protecting your content and putting everything behind a paywall. You know, I don't like to think of it as a paywall where you have to pay to get over this wall, but more like. Transmission. When you put energy into the system, you get energy out of it and.
00:40:44
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, yeah. One of the things that I want to do is I just started doing fundraising and I, I raised, I helped raise money to put a well for the Samburu tribe in Kenya. Water well. It was so rewarding to see these, this tribe get water and they're all like splashing in the water and they're all excited. I was like, ah, so, so I want to do this thing where I work with this woman, and she said that so many corporations can receive tax breaks if they donate to nonprofits. And so I wanted to get a bunch of corporations to donate money because then it saves them with their taxes. And then I wanted to do a thing where we can vote where the money goes. Okay, we vote. I want it to go in this project or this project, and then when it goes into that project, it's going to be transparent fundraising where we show exactly where this received this much money. This is where it's going. And then we sh. We show videos of the work being actually done. Because so many people are, like, not wanting to donate to nonprofits because they're so corrupt. So I want people to feel like, oh, they. I want to give, but I want to actually choose where I'm giving to. And I want to actually see the gratifying reward of seeing the thing happen and the benefits of it happening and the impacts. So that's going to be another aspect, and that I. That I think is going to be really great. Let's, like, stop funneling the money from the corporations in the matrix and start putting them into the new Earth. Like, that's what money is. It's an amplifier. It's an organizer. You know, it's an energy exchange. If we can start seeing it like that. Like, I know a lot of people like, oh, paywall. But it's like, no, stop putting your money into the things that you want to see happen. Because your votes, the most important vote you make is where you spend your money, you know?
00:42:34
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, you can ask for a, you know, a contribution in order to receive access to what you're offering, but you can also invite, you know, additional contributions of. Of different kinds. People can always give more. And I haven't. I don't know when we'll figure it out, but at some point in the pipeline is like a pay what you want model for a subscription. Because I know that's. That's possible. When you sign up for something, there's a suggested contribution, but if you can pay, you know, if you can afford more or if you can't afford as much, you can do that as well.
00:43:24
Gaia Warriors: I like that. I wanted to offer different tiers of. Yeah. Of what people could pay. Like a sliding scale, I think. Yeah. Suggest.
00:43:34
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. Cool.
00:43:36
Gaia Warriors: Yeah.
00:43:36
Ellen S: Then you're not just protecting it.
00:43:38
Gaia Warriors: Right.
00:43:39
Ellen S: For like, just one little group, it definitely, like, diversifies.
00:43:42
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, exactly.
00:43:44
Ellen S: They can make the change you want. And to see we all want.
00:43:49
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, exactly. It's Inclusive. Yeah.
00:43:52
Ellen S: Yeah. I mean, it made me think for the woman. The conversation you were having with the woman who's like, well, I'm charging, like, a thousand dollars, or that is like, an interesting kind of gap to bridge. You know, I. I did a bunch of classes with this group called the Future, which is actually. It's like a design. Christo runs it.
00:44:12
Gaia Warriors: It's.
00:44:12
Ellen S: It's like a design community. But he. What. What I saw with him was he would do. I know this is like, a little different model, but just to put it into there, he would, like, release courses. So, you know, he'd actually have, like, kind of like these course launches. And for example, like, I did a brand strategy course with him and, well, with one of his teachers. And so it was like 250 bucks or something. You know, it was. It was not a huge amount of money. But then I, like, connected with that brand strategist and, you know, following that course, then I ended up going, like, to her ecosystem and, like, doing, you know, spending, like, thousands of dollars with her to learn her way. So there's. I know we're talking about, like, pipelines and helping people get more of their good workout and exposure. And it's just. There's something in that that might help bring people into, you know, they don't have to offer maybe their exact, you know, whole thing, but they could offer something that would be beneficial for them. And anyway, and, you know, the woman who ran it from those launches made a ton of money, you know, because he has the numbers, he has the volume.
00:45:24
Gaia Warriors: Right?
00:45:24
Ellen S: So she was still. And. And she's. It's like passive income, right? She. That class is forever, like, available. So she's still making the money from it, so.
00:45:33
Gaia Warriors: Right.
00:45:33
Ellen S: Yeah.
00:45:34
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. Thanks for sharing that. I was thinking about that, like, allowing these teachers to, like, offer tasters on my plat. And then if, like, okay, if you want to work and dive deeper, then you go to this person's platform, and then there's an affiliate. So I get percentage of everybody that goes and works directly with her. So that was what I was initially going for, but then I was just like, like, damn. But her course is, like, it's so good. I want everybody. I want thousands of people to do it. Like, how do I make that happen? But, yeah, it's. Yeah, I have to. I think it's going to just kind of, like you said, keep things simple and then start revealing. I think it will reveal itself, like, how to navigate. But yeah, thanks for sharing that. I appreciate it.
00:46:21
James Redenbaugh: Can you Tell us more about what your sense of what's possible for the May launch. What are you hoping to have up on the site by then?
00:46:42
Gaia Warriors: Well, so I'm going to do an online and an in person launch so I'm making, I'm, I'm editing a two out. Well I'm hoping it's going to be less now, but it was two hours initially or an hour and a half video about talking about what Gaia warriors is about. And then I feature different teachers on the, the video. So I was gonna, I'm editing that and then I was gonna, I was gonna send that out to people and then so they'll receive the video, they'll watch what it's about and then hopefully get excited and then they'll have the website link so that they can go on there and start seeing what the directory is about and the like. Obviously they can't see everything because like I'm gonna have the educational content stuff to be part of the membership. But I think the directory is the main thing that I'm really excited about that I want people to go on there and be like, whoa, like look at this, look at all these people I can connect with and look. Yeah, so I think the, the directory is the main like exciting thing that I want the launch people can go in there and so that's what I'm going to have to do. A lot of time, spend a lot of time is researching and putting this data in for the directory.
00:48:01
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, yeah. Tell us about your, your network right now. You know, how are you planning on reaching these people? Do you have a newsletter list, social media following things like that? Big Rolodex, what's that like for you?
00:48:22
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, so I have what I was going to do and this is going to take me a very long time but I have, you know, a couple thousand contacts on my phone. I've lived in three different continents so I have networks, I'm connected to networks in three different continents and you know, it's obviously the spiritual communities and those places and then I have my social media following. It's not very big, it's a few thousand, but I was going to individually message every single person I have ever met or come into contact with in my almost 40 years of living. And I'm going to, I'm going to directly message them and I'm going be like, look, this is, I'm launching my sole purpose here and this is my mission. And you know, our paths came across for some reason. You know, I paths came across for this. Out of the billions of people on the planet, we came across our paths crossed in some way. And I would love your support in sharing or just interacting with this project, which is my sole purpose. And I'm hoping people will feel inspired by me actually doing the thing that I'm. It's taken me a very long time to do, like a lot of healing to get here. I'm hoping to inspire people to get excited about interacting with what I'm doing, but then get excited to launch their thing. So I'm just going to personally message a lot of people and I think that the video that I'm making, the downloads that I've gotten about the video is going to be really epic. So I think when people watch the video, they're going to be like, holy, you know, and it's going to inspire them and activate them and then they're going to want to like, share it or like. Yeah. Or, you know, check the website out. So that's kind of the thing. But I. I have a book called Launch. My friend gave it to me, so I'm gonna read it and I'll stay. I about some stuff too. That the thing that I just shared with you is my own intuition thing. But I know that there's other ways of launching that I'm going to explore. But that was like my main thing. And it's also going to launch around my 40th birthday. So I'm going to be like, hey, for my 40th birthday, could you as a birthday present, like, interact with my page? Like my page, share it, share this video. So I'm going to like, guilt trip people, like, hey, that's my birthday present. So I was kind of going to do, yeah, something like that. But I've already channeled like a little message to like make this person feel like, hey, this is your opportunity to actually do something that's going to contribute to the world we all know. Possible. Yeah.
00:51:08
James Redenbaugh: Awesome.
00:51:09
Gaia Warriors: So, yeah, reaching out to the hearts, trying to get the hearts to feel activated.
00:51:19
Ellen S: Everybody feels so disempowered, you know, so that if you can see that, then that's pretty huge.
00:51:25
Gaia Warriors: Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And when I get excited about something, like, I'm very good at getting other people excited. So I'm just gonna be like, my energy gets all like. But yeah, it's empowering people. Like, hey, this is a small step, a small thing that'll take you a couple minutes that's going to actually contribute to big change. And that gets people to feel empowered. Like, oh yeah, Like, I want to, I want to feel empowered. I want to feel like I can make impact. Like, I want to feel like I have purpose and meaning and contribute and I'm belong and I'm part of something greater and like. Yeah. So that's kind of the ethos of Gaia warriors is like that feeling.
00:52:04
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Great. Well, we'll talk a lot more about strategy leading up to it, but one idea that you're probably already thinking about something like this, but to not only enroll users, but enroll like ambassadors at the same time. Like, who's, who's going to go on and create a profile and like maybe check their email when a follow up happens and who's going to be really excited about this and like, want to build with you from this very early stage. So we want to think about those users as well because they're going to be really critical, like, who's going to be a super user.
00:52:50
Gaia Warriors: Yes. Thanks for saying that. Yeah. I've been envisioning having ambassadors in each town and then they can be the person that's like, if we're going to do in like an in person online meditation or a ceremony that they can be the person that organizes that. And I want to have like ambassadors in each. Yeah. In each town that feel like I'm going to get my community together to do something, you know? Yeah.
00:53:11
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, yeah. And they, they get alerted when somebody's coming to town and when something wants to happen. And yes.
00:53:21
Gaia Warriors: Love that.
00:53:22
James Redenbaugh: I'll be one for Philly.
00:53:24
Gaia Warriors: Yay. Please.
00:53:27
Ellen S: Got some of your. For sure.
00:53:30
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. So great. Tess. Next week we should schedule a longer vision session where we can really dive into, you know, whatever comes up, whether it's. It's visuals or what do we mean by coherence and how do we achieve that together? What's the story and the narrative behind this? I want to make time to explore those things and that's really the next, the next step. We'll lay out a timeline for, for our whole three or four months we have here and. But we can start to plan weekly meetings or whatever structure is going to serve us best. But in the beginning the motion is like open to possibilities, exploring different directions. We want to have a sense of where we're going, but we're not yet in the stage where we're kind of refining and reducing, so we'll be doing mood boarding. I'll send you a questionnaire of questions to contemplate and things to collect, sources of inspiration, things like that. But also feel free to follow Your own creative impulses. If you want to dive into writing content or painting or, you know, thinking about structure or whatever's alive for you, you know, feel free to do that and, and share with us and. And we'll bring in different creatives at different times, depending on what the project calls for and what kind of support we need. So. Yeah. Any questions about the process?
00:55:36
Gaia Warriors: No, no. That sounds all really great. And it feels really good. I feel like you guys have really cool systems in place and. Yeah, it just feels so relieving to me. I'm like, oh, this is such a big thing. How do I create it? It's like, how do you create the vision into something substantially real, you know, and so you guys know how to do that? I'm just like, yes. I feel so happy about it. And yeah, I'm so stoked. There's just, like, resonance here with you, and it's just like, everyone. Yeah, everyone. Everyone that was like, oh, you should try this. But then I'm like, no, I want to work with someone that I have resonance with, and I have that with you guys. So I'm so soaked. Like, this is amazing. Like, I think that we can really. Because when there's resonance and then you can communicate, like, it's more of it, like a frequency thing, you know? Like, I'm not. You're not just feeling my words, but you're feeling what I'm saying, and I feel what you guys are saying, and I'm like, wow, yeah, that feels good in my body and I feel so excited. And yeah, I just. Like this meeting has just left me feeling inspired and excited. And that's. That's. That's a really good thing because then I can help. It helps me to be more in create creation mode and creativity. So thanks for igniting the creativity. It's great. Yeah.
00:56:50
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. Wonderful. Yeah. The words are like the surface of the water and a lot else is. Is going on. Yeah. Well, great. So we'll be in touch about scheduling the next meeting and setting up a. A co creative space and a place to share files and resources and things like that. And in the meantime, I sent you the. The contract. Look that over. Let me know if you have any questions about that and any questions about anything at any time.
00:57:28
Gaia Warriors: Awesome. Thank you. Thanks so much for your time today. It was so nice to meet you, Ellen.
00:57:33
Ellen S: Really nice to meet you, Tess.
00:57:34
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. Thank you, James, for spearheading this. And yeah, I feel so. So this is so awesome. Like, dream come true, you know, when you're stewarding something for so long, and you're like, ah, it's actually coming. It's actually happening. It's like, so. Means so much to me. It's like, yeah. So good. So I'm so grateful. Yeah.
00:57:53
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. Well, grateful for you.
00:57:56
Ellen S: Yeah.
00:57:57
James Redenbaugh: And thank you, Ellen. Glad. Glad to be in this. In this triangle.
00:58:03
Ellen S: Yeah. Lovely to be here. Thank you.
00:58:05
Gaia Warriors: All right.
00:58:07
James Redenbaugh: Talk to you guys soon.
00:58:09
Gaia Warriors: Ciao, ciao.
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