After James returned from Portugal (where the Holos app was well-received at the conference) and his honeymoon, the team reconnected with renewed energy. Gaia Warriors confirmed the next payment installment and outlined a revised payment cadence: one now, end of July, and end of August, working toward a September launch (01:39).
James shared that the lessons learned from building the Holos app are directly informing Gaia Warriors development — debugging architectural patterns now means smoother execution when they fully ramp up on this build (02:36).
Gaia Warriors has been actively expanding the directory using AI-assisted research, working town by town with ambitions to cover the entire world (04:33). She asked how new entries will translate to the live site.
James confirmed the directory will sync automatically from Airtable [tag="airtable"] to the Webflow site [tag="webflow"], with a key refinement:
[technology="Directory Systems"]
A meaningful thread emerged around how AI fits into the Gaia Warriors ethos. Gaia Warriors wants to add a clear statement to the site: no AI is used for content or art — everything human-made and organic. AI is reserved for research acceleration only (10:21).
James reframed this beautifully into a marketing angle: in an age of increasing AI prevalence, how do we remember and celebrate our humanness? The real challenge isn't LLMs but rather the attention economy that's captured the last decade. The vision: use AI to handle the administrative layers of life so humans can spend more time with healers, in community, making art, growing food, and learning together (11:30).
Gaia Warriors plans to include artists and musicians alongside earth stewards, permaculturists, and farmers — recognizing that choosing the artist's path in this world is itself an act of courage (12:25). James offered to share access to his Awakening World database as a resource, which features a globe-based music player with embedded YouTube tracks from artists worldwide (13:25). The interface inspired excitement as a potential model for a Gaia Warriors equivalent.
[technology="Community Facilitation Tools"]
James articulated a guiding design principle drawn from his recent podcast: successful technology gets out of the way of human connection. Humans are sources of light and creativity; technology should amplify those fiber-optic connections, not dampen them. Social media often creates the illusion of amplification while actually isolating people and reducing messages to temporary talking points rather than grounded, living worlds (17:23).
Gaia Warriors strongly resonated with this, emphasizing her core intention: translate the online community into in-person connection. She shared a model from a creator she follows who runs residencies — people live together for six months, discover authentic resonance, and then build community from those tested relationships (19:45).
A rich design conversation explored creating a physical artifact that acts as a portal to the platform (22:00). James referenced his Montaya project, where laser-cut wooden mandala stickers became lasting tokens people still display 10 years later. His one regret: not including a QR code to bridge the physical to the digital.
Ideas explored:
James shared the Tomorrowland metaphor: in the film, scientists and creatives receive a pin that's both a membership marker and a literal transporter to another dimension — a perfect symbol for Warriors entering a higher-vibration shared space (25:08).
[technology="Parametric Geometric Interfaces"]
Gaia Warriors shared formative experience from her four years with Greenpeace, which informs the ambassador model (28:35). The Greenpeace structure:
She wants to adapt this for Gaia Warriors — but inverted: instead of calling out the bad actors, call out and celebrate those doing good. Ambassadors would coordinate monthly missions, document outcomes, and share back to the platform so communities can learn from and inspire each other.
She also referenced Nevada City's COVID-era resilience meetings, where attendees broke into interest-based pods (permaculture, media, etc.) to find their local collaborators. That model of interest-based local clustering could become a core ambassador meeting format.
James highlighted the key design tension: how do we make ambassador meetings consistent enough to feel like Gaia Warriors, while flexible enough to let each community make them their own? And critically — how do we incentivize ambassadors to bring activity back to the platform rather than letting it become a disconnected local potluck?
[technology="Collaboration Management Tools"]
The team explored a Gaia Warriors certification process for businesses and contributors (35:50). Core principles:
[technology="Assessment Systems"]
Gaia Warriors raised the idea of a token system to incentivize sharing, attention, and participation — referencing Seeds as an inspiration (40:25). James noted the tokenization space is saturated and most attempts haven't worked out, suggesting a partnership with an existing platform (like Seeds) would be more strategic than building from scratch. Gaia Warriors has connections to the Seeds founder through her interviews at Will's DAO incubator.
James shared he's heading into a conversation right after this meeting with 12 platform builders discussing interoperability — pathways between communities for resource sharing, exposure, and learning. Gaia Warriors will be designed with this interoperability in mind from the start (43:23).
James proposed the working plan:
[technology="Custom Membership System"]
Gaia Warriors
James Redenbaugh
After James returned from Portugal (where the Holos app was well-received at the conference) and his honeymoon, the team reconnected with renewed energy. Gaia Warriors confirmed the next payment installment and outlined a revised payment cadence: one now, end of July, and end of August, working toward a September launch (01:39).
James shared that the lessons learned from building the Holos app are directly informing Gaia Warriors development — debugging architectural patterns now means smoother execution when they fully ramp up on this build (02:36).
Gaia Warriors has been actively expanding the directory using AI-assisted research, working town by town with ambitions to cover the entire world (04:33). She asked how new entries will translate to the live site.
James confirmed the directory will sync automatically from Airtable [tag="airtable"] to the Webflow site [tag="webflow"], with a key refinement:
[technology="Directory Systems"]
A meaningful thread emerged around how AI fits into the Gaia Warriors ethos. Gaia Warriors wants to add a clear statement to the site: no AI is used for content or art — everything human-made and organic. AI is reserved for research acceleration only (10:21).
James reframed this beautifully into a marketing angle: in an age of increasing AI prevalence, how do we remember and celebrate our humanness? The real challenge isn't LLMs but rather the attention economy that's captured the last decade. The vision: use AI to handle the administrative layers of life so humans can spend more time with healers, in community, making art, growing food, and learning together (11:30).
Gaia Warriors plans to include artists and musicians alongside earth stewards, permaculturists, and farmers — recognizing that choosing the artist's path in this world is itself an act of courage (12:25). James offered to share access to his Awakening World database as a resource, which features a globe-based music player with embedded YouTube tracks from artists worldwide (13:25). The interface inspired excitement as a potential model for a Gaia Warriors equivalent.
[technology="Community Facilitation Tools"]
James articulated a guiding design principle drawn from his recent podcast: successful technology gets out of the way of human connection. Humans are sources of light and creativity; technology should amplify those fiber-optic connections, not dampen them. Social media often creates the illusion of amplification while actually isolating people and reducing messages to temporary talking points rather than grounded, living worlds (17:23).
Gaia Warriors strongly resonated with this, emphasizing her core intention: translate the online community into in-person connection. She shared a model from a creator she follows who runs residencies — people live together for six months, discover authentic resonance, and then build community from those tested relationships (19:45).
A rich design conversation explored creating a physical artifact that acts as a portal to the platform (22:00). James referenced his Montaya project, where laser-cut wooden mandala stickers became lasting tokens people still display 10 years later. His one regret: not including a QR code to bridge the physical to the digital.
Ideas explored:
James shared the Tomorrowland metaphor: in the film, scientists and creatives receive a pin that's both a membership marker and a literal transporter to another dimension — a perfect symbol for Warriors entering a higher-vibration shared space (25:08).
[technology="Parametric Geometric Interfaces"]
Gaia Warriors shared formative experience from her four years with Greenpeace, which informs the ambassador model (28:35). The Greenpeace structure:
She wants to adapt this for Gaia Warriors — but inverted: instead of calling out the bad actors, call out and celebrate those doing good. Ambassadors would coordinate monthly missions, document outcomes, and share back to the platform so communities can learn from and inspire each other.
She also referenced Nevada City's COVID-era resilience meetings, where attendees broke into interest-based pods (permaculture, media, etc.) to find their local collaborators. That model of interest-based local clustering could become a core ambassador meeting format.
James highlighted the key design tension: how do we make ambassador meetings consistent enough to feel like Gaia Warriors, while flexible enough to let each community make them their own? And critically — how do we incentivize ambassadors to bring activity back to the platform rather than letting it become a disconnected local potluck?
[technology="Collaboration Management Tools"]
The team explored a Gaia Warriors certification process for businesses and contributors (35:50). Core principles:
[technology="Assessment Systems"]
Gaia Warriors raised the idea of a token system to incentivize sharing, attention, and participation — referencing Seeds as an inspiration (40:25). James noted the tokenization space is saturated and most attempts haven't worked out, suggesting a partnership with an existing platform (like Seeds) would be more strategic than building from scratch. Gaia Warriors has connections to the Seeds founder through her interviews at Will's DAO incubator.
James shared he's heading into a conversation right after this meeting with 12 platform builders discussing interoperability — pathways between communities for resource sharing, exposure, and learning. Gaia Warriors will be designed with this interoperability in mind from the start (43:23).
James proposed the working plan:
[technology="Custom Membership System"]
Gaia Warriors
James Redenbaugh
Send next payment installment and confirm end-of-July and end-of-August payment cadence
Send next payment installment immediately, then follow with end-of-July and end-of-August payments to complete the revised payment cadence toward September launch. Referenced at 01:39.
Continue expanding directory in Airtable by adding more towns toward global coverage
Continue expanding the directory using AI-assisted research, working town by town with ambitions to cover the entire world. Referenced at 04:33.
Build Airtable to Webflow directory sync with draft/publish status trigger field
Build the Airtable to Webflow sync with a draft/publish trigger field so Tess can stage entries before they go live and selectively publish large batches when ready. Referenced at 05:29.
Share access to Awakening World artist database as a resource for directory content
Share access to the Awakening World database featuring a globe-based music player with embedded YouTube tracks from artists worldwide as a resource and potential model for the Gaia Warriors directory. Referenced at 13:25.
Text Tess the Tomorrowland film recommendation and album link for creative inspiration
Text Tess the Tomorrowland film recommendation and the album link referenced during the session for creative inspiration and platform culture metaphors. Referenced at 16:53.
Watch Tomorrowland film as creative homework for platform culture and design metaphors
Watch Tomorrowland as creative homework — the film's pin-as-portal metaphor is directly relevant to Gaia Warriors membership artifact and platform culture design. Referenced at 45:41.
Listen to album James shared for creative inspiration
Listen to the album James texted over for creative inspiration to inform the Gaia Warriors aesthetic direction. Referenced at 16:53.
Return to FigJam to review and add to project materials
Return to the FigJam workspace to review existing project materials and add new inputs from this session. Referenced at 47:11.
Explore potential partnership with Seeds platform for tokenization and incentives integration
Explore partnership conversation with Seeds (via connection to Seeds founder through Will's DAO incubator interviews) as a more strategic approach than building a token system from scratch. Referenced at 40:25.
Bring back insights from 12-person platform interoperability conversation to inform Gaia Warriors architecture
Share insights from the conversation with 12 platform builders discussing interoperability — pathways between communities for resource sharing, exposure, and learning — to ensure Gaia Warriors is designed with interoperability in mind from the start. Referenced at 43:23.
Prepare MVP scoping session to define September launch deliverables
Prepare for next week's MVP scoping session to clearly define what must launch in September versus what follows in later phases. This is step one of the four-part path to September launch. Referenced at 44:17.
Begin exploring physical artifact concepts including pins, badges, and premium ambassador objects as portals to the platform
Begin exploring physical artifact concepts — pins or buttons for general membership recognition, and premium tiered artifacts (e.g., 3D-printed metal Merkaba with cuboctahedral geometry) for ambassadors — with QR codes as portals back to the platform. Referenced at 22:40.
Add statement to Gaia Warriors website clarifying no AI used for content or art — all human-made and organic
Tess wants a clear statement on the site that no AI is used for content or art — everything is human-made and organic, with AI reserved for research acceleration only. Referenced at 10:21.
Design ambassador program structure based on inverted Greenpeace model with monthly missions and local clustering
Design the ambassador program structure drawing on Tess's four years with Greenpeace — headquarters designs monthly missions, ambassadors coordinate locally, document outcomes, and report back — but inverted to celebrate those doing good rather than calling out bad actors. Incorporate interest-based local clustering modeled on Nevada City COVID-era resilience meetings. Referenced at 28:35.
Design certification and vetting system with multiple tiers, follow-up checks, and Business of the Month recognition
Design the Gaia Warriors certification process with rigorous vetting (not self-claims), verified follow-up checks at 6-12 months, multiple tiers, Business of the Month highlights, and community-driven identification of worthy businesses. Referenced at 35:50.
Initial vision work, questionnaire, and strategic planning for Gaia Warriors platform launch. Comprehensive exploration completed covering core philosophy (resonance as primary design principle), warrior archetype reclaiming, masculine-feminine balance, platform as 'new medium' rather than iteration of existing platforms. Vision includes terrain theory/quantum healing foundations, radical self-responsibility, collective co-creation, and the metaphor of creating 'the collective song we've forgotten' to call people home. Design philosophy established: function and beauty must evolve together like nature, not in stages. Platform should work as attractor lighting 'a big fire on a big mountain' for intended networks.
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.' Core design principles established: resonance as primary quality, organic/non-rectangular geometry pushing against screen limitations, nature-inspired architecture (adobe, cob, bamboo, hemp) informing digital aesthetics, real Earth photography rather than AI-generated imagery. Logo symbolism deeply explored: masculine-feminine balance, four elements integration, torchbearer and nurturer archetypes, wings representing integration of both energies.
Visual aesthetic direction now clearly defined: Fine lines over thick/hand-drawn, gold tones and warm earth textures, ombré and tonal variation within single color families (no flat solid colors), elegant precision with organic soul. Spirals emerged as central symbolic anchor - toroidal field, universe as 'one spinningness', ammonite forms. Voronoi patterns (cellular structures) also resonant. Nature textures: reishi mushrooms, wood grain, leaf membranes, coral structures, rippling water, stone arches.
Architectural references: Gaudí's Sagrada Família, Frank Lloyd Wright's organic curvilinear forms balanced with practical structure - metaphor for web design within rectangular browser constraints. Maximal aesthetic with intention - rich soil permaculture frame where people and offerings are the stars. Breaking the grid slightly to make everything feel alive.
Shared Google folder populated with color palettes, logo files, brand references, nature videos, gold frames. Designer Munia being brought in next to begin color palette, typography, and homepage compositions. iStock credits (41 available) to be used for nature-based stock video and photography aligned with established aesthetic.
Build searchable member directory to help Gaia Warriors members find and connect with each other. Directory is central to launch vision and serves as the heart of the discovery layer. System supports geographic discovery, category filtering, and profile clustering for dense areas. Core features: MapBox integration with auto-calculated coordinates from location entries, profile clustering creating visual polygons for nearby users rather than overwhelming pin stacks, quick profile creation with low friction, tag interface with curated list plus custom options. Directory will surface healers, organic farms, organic restaurants (organic/farm-to-table/ethically sourced only), nonprofits, events, ceremonies, retreats, sovereignty-related services, artists, and musicians for each featured location. Artists and musicians being added as new category (12:25) — recognizing that choosing the artist's path in this world is itself an act of courage. Potential integration with Awakening World database as resource for global artist directory (13:25). Launch strategy: Start with curated US spiritual hubs (Sedona, Mount Shasta, Asheville) with visible roadmap for future towns. Gaia Warriors actively expanding town by town with ambition for global coverage (04:33). Users can propose and vote on which cities get added next. Long-term vision is fully global, organized by bioregion rather than national borders, with regional ambassadors managing each area. Technical implementation: Airtable-to-Webflow sync with draft/publish status trigger field (05:29). Allows staging large batches of entries before selective publishing. AI-assisted research workflow validated for population (Claude integration operational). Design direction established: Deep green background with light-on-dark aesthetic. Will incorporate more collage elements and Earth imagery as design matures. Built on Airtable relational database with Webflow front-end and MapBox geographic visualization. Infrastructure already prototyped in parallel platform project (Holos).
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 and revenue sharing.
Paid tier of platform unlocks deep educational programming where line between teacher and student stays deliberately blurry — everyone is both. Structure encourages participants to share their own codes and breakthroughs alongside formal curriculum. Initial launch will feature Tess's course with different guest teachers in modules.
Cross-pollination framework: Courses could run simultaneously across Gaia Warriors and Hollow Movement with shared participants (01:15:23). This supports horizontal axis of platform - non-local learning where village builders in different regions learn from and feed each other.
Long-term vision: Learning happens through self-paced exploration, community engagement, and right content at right time — transformative learning journeys that respond to learner needs rather than rigid structures.
Build community facilitation features including community challenges, experience sharing spaces, voting systems, and tools for collaborative project creation. Community challenges: Weekly or recurring prompts (e.g., 'do one random act of kindness this week', 'build an earth altar') where users post participation and inspire each other. Available in free tier. Voting on projects and initiatives: Users have tangible sense that engagement creates real-world impact. Free tier feature. Connected to transparent fundraising system where community votes on which projects receive funding. Incentive models being explored: Rewarding members who amplify each other's work (sharing social media, donating time to fellow member's project) with tangible returns like retreat access or community recognition. Token system potentially partnering with existing platforms like Seeds rather than building from scratch (40:25). Collaborative project management: Eventually users who meet on platform and take on project together should manage collaboration entirely within platform without migrating to external tools. Custom project management tool demonstrated in parallel platform — team members use existing profiles to access admin features, manage tasks, update statuses, add copy, view timeline. Vision is same capabilities in Gaia Warriors. Messaging and posting functionality already prototyped in Holos platform. Features demonstrated include: direct messaging, group chats, holon (group) creation with message walls, image sharing, topic threads, shared resources. Forum-style posting for mission photo shares and event mentions confirmed as core feature. @mentioning capability for linking events and content within community discussions. Core design principle: Successful technology gets out of the way of human connection (17:23). Technology should amplify fiber-optic connections between humans as sources of light and creativity, not dampen them or create illusion of connection while actually isolating. Platform must translate online community into in-person interaction (19:45).
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.
Tess vision (01:09:16): Full transparency on where money goes and what it accomplishes - the missing piece in most fundraising is the felt experience of impact. Example shared: funding a well in Kenya, filming ceremony of Samburu tribe receiving water, sharing footage with donors.
Purpose Earth nonprofit (connected to Hollow Movement) referenced as live model - distributed nearly $600,000 in grants through transparent, map-based system (01:13:10). This demonstrates what localized, direct-impact funding can look like at scale.
Integration with community contribution tracking: Members who amplify each other's work could earn community recognition or tangible benefits. Impact tracking and contribution logging could eventually automate fair distribution through blockchain-based systems.
Build custom membership system with multi-tier access (including sliding scale and 'pay what you want' options), subscription management through Stripe, and secure authentication. System must support flexible pricing models to ensure platform remains inclusive while sustaining teachers and operations.
Two-tier model: Free tier includes community challenges (weekly prompts like 'do one random act of kindness'), community voting on projects and initiatives, and basic engagement features. Paid tier unlocks Mystery School content with teachers, healing modalities, and guided learning journeys where line between teacher and student stays deliberately blurry.
User profiles created quickly with questions about identity, seeking, offering, location, and work domains. Tag interface for self-categorization. Profile includes auto-generated banner images created by AI reading user's profile content (56:58). User immediately lands in directory context after profile creation to see themselves as part of the network.
Platform designed to feel transparently in-process at launch — foundation being laid, invitation to be creator not consumer. Community safeguarding built in thoughtfully: reputation systems, easy reporting tools, proactive vetting to prevent extractive or cultish dynamics (01:27:20).
Membership features demonstrated in Holos prototype (12:30): Mini profiles opening from directory cards with expansion to full profile pages, member-only access to holons/groups, RSVP visibility for events showing which community members are attending (20:25), filtering events by Gaia Warriors member attendance.
Coordinate September 2026 launch campaign centered on physical Gaia Warriors launch event, including finalization of launch video (90-120 min featuring teachers), personal heartfelt outreach across three continents, ambassador recruitment, and activation messaging. Timeline revised to September launch (01:39). Payment cadence: installment now, end of July, end of August. Physical launch event: Three-day gathering on Sayakumi/Maidu tribal land near Nevada City, tentatively just before summer solstice in June. Kogi tribe from Colombia invited to attend. Event structure: (1) Gaia Warriors Day with local panelists from organizations like Geoship sharing projects, (2) Indigenous ceremony and presence from Kogi and Sayakumi, (3) Activation of local directory giving featured community members visibility and promotion. Long-term vision: Replicate this event model in each town - use gatherings to activate directory locally and let people meet in person before/alongside digital platform. Laser-cut wooden stickers with QR codes being made as beloved merch callback to Montaya project (22:40). Physical artifacts explored as portals to platform (22:00): Pins or buttons signaling membership and creating recognition between Warriors in the wild, premium tiered artifacts for ambassadors (e.g., 3D-printed metal Merkaba with cuboctahedral geometry), QR codes embedded as bridges from physical to digital. Tomorrowland metaphor: pin as both membership marker and literal transporter to higher-vibration shared space (25:08). Launch strategy: Pilot with curated US spiritual hubs (Sedona, Mount Shasta, Asheville) featuring healers, organic farms, organic restaurants, nonprofits, events, ceremonies, retreats, sovereignty services, artists, musicians. Regional ambassadors or small teams will eventually manage each bioregion. Campaign creates sense of movement activation — people showing up for a mission to change the world. Transparent about beta/in-process status while demonstrating functional foundation ready for creative co-creation.
Build full Webflow website incorporating brand design, portal onboarding experience, directory system, profile creation flows, and community features. Website functions as threshold and activation point — not just information delivery. Key components: Portal/threshold onboarding with initiatory 'yes' moment, puzzle piece composition showing empty space as call to action, time-manipulated nature videos evoking emotional resonance, ornate decorative elements throughout, sacred geometry integration, smooth animations creating sense of living world rather than static pages. Visual implementation: Fine-lined spirals, Voronoi patterns, gold tones, ombré color variations, subtle textures everywhere (no flat solid colors). Nature-based stock photography and video from iStock library. Architectural metaphor of organic forms within rectangular browser constraints - like Frank Lloyd Wright's balance of curves and structure. AI philosophy statement to be added to site (10:21): No AI used for content or art — everything human-made and organic. AI reserved for research acceleration only. Marketing angle: In age of increasing AI prevalence, how do we remember and celebrate our humanness? Use AI to handle administrative layers so humans spend more time with healers, in community, making art, growing food, learning together (11:30). Technical implementation: Webflow CMS, Airtable backend via Whalesync with draft/publish status trigger (05:29), MapBox for geographic features, Stripe for payments, custom JavaScript for interactions including auto-generated profile banners and honeycomb directory views. Infrastructure already prototyped in parallel platform build (Holos). Design principle guiding all features: Successful technology gets out of the way of human connection (17:23). Humans are sources of light and creativity; technology should amplify those fiber-optic connections, not dampen them. Content coordination: Shared Google Doc with tabbed structure for each website page mapping what content is needed, what needs writing, and what's already available. Target launch September 2026 (01:39). MVP scope to be defined next week (44:17) to clarify what must launch versus what can follow.
Design system for collecting feedback/input during beta phase using Airtable forms. Platform explicitly positioned as transparently in-process at launch — foundation being laid, invitation to be creator not consumer.
Beta testing will validate directory functionality, profile creation flow, community challenges, and overall user experience across pilot spiritual hub cities (Sedona, Mount Shasta, Asheville). Feedback will inform expansion to additional cities and feature iteration.
Secure formal permission and establish collaboration with original logo artist 'Troll Girl' on DeviantArt. Original artwork titled 'As Above, So Below' (2010) was modified to create masculine-feminine balance and elemental symbolism. Artist spiritually gave permission during ayahuasca ceremony but formal licensing needed. Artist's other work aligns beautifully with Gaia Warriors ethos, opening potential for deeper collaboration. Includes compensation discussion and exploring additional artwork integration.
Research and plan for data sovereignty, backup systems, and migration capabilities to ensure Gaia Warriors can survive potential Internet disruptions or platform shutdowns. Explore open source alternatives to current cloud stack (Airtable, Webflow) that can run on local servers or private infrastructure. Design distributed backup strategy with data stored on hard drives at multiple geographic nodes. Ensure platform can participate in meshwork systems if global networks fail.
Philosophy: 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' — leverage cloud tools now while maintaining migration capability. Airtable will serve as lightweight CRM in near term for managing ambassador relationships and community tracking, with plan for eventual in-platform management. Airtable account setup (01:18:41) is first step - Tess creating account, James building table structure and recording Loom walkthrough.
Claude integration with Airtable for automated data import and research (01:19:40). Tess already experienced using Claude for structured data - building index of all indigenous tribes of the world (~6,000+ entries) and found Claude significantly more reliable than other AI tools for this research (01:20:24). This workflow directly applicable to populating community directory.
Preliminary research into local hosting, self-hosted AI, and CSV export/import workflows. Long-term vision includes possibility of distributed nodes and local meshwork systems aligned with bioregional organization structure.
Document Gem Jam Festival experience in Tucson as first real-world embodiment of Gaia Warriors platform. Film indigenous elder who creates drum circles and sound healings in prisons and psychiatric wards. Act as if platform already exists - be emissary, enroll others, transmit message, observe user experience as first beta tester. Use Osho Pocket camera to create content showing 'Gaia Warriors going into the world.' This embodies manifestation principle of living vision before digital home exists, creating authentic content for launch campaign while testing core concepts in real community context.
Establish content coordination infrastructure and begin populating website content, community directory, and knowledge base. Central hub is shared Google Doc with tabbed structure - one tab per website page - mapping what content is needed, what needs writing, and what's already available. Airtable CRM setup for community directory: James built table structure and recorded Loom walkthrough for Tess. Gaia Warriors actively expanding directory town by town with ambitions for global coverage (04:33). Claude integration now fully demonstrated and operational for automated data import - passing existing spreadsheets/Google Docs to Claude to map and populate fields automatically, plus conduct research to fill missing details. Airtable-to-Webflow sync enhanced with draft/publish status trigger field (05:29). Allows staging large batches of entries and selectively publishing when ready. System will evolve over time but sync behavior remains consistent. AI philosophy for content creation (10:21): No AI used for content or art — everything human-made and organic. AI reserved strictly for research acceleration and administrative tasks so humans can spend more time in community, making art, growing food, learning together (11:30). New directory categories being added: Artists and musicians alongside healers, permaculturists, earth stewards, and farmers (12:25). Awakening World database shared as resource for global artist directory content (13:25). Workflow validated through live demonstration: Healers and organic restaurants in Nevada City successfully populated with addresses, websites, Instagram handles, and AI-generated descriptions confirmed by Gaia as publication-quality. Image workflow established: logos via screenshot from websites/Instagram, banner images via Google Maps business listings which frequently have higher-quality photography. Tess bringing proven workflow from indigenous tribes index project (~6,000+ entries built using Claude) - Claude significantly more reliable than other AI tools for structured research. This same methodology applies to populating healer profiles, organization descriptions, and event details. iStock library credits (41 available) being used to source nature-based stock video and photography aligned with established aesthetic direction - reishi mushrooms, spirals, wood grain, rippling water, stone arches, membranes. Content types being coordinated: Website page copy, member/organization profiles for directory, indigenous tribe profiles and elder interviews, launch event details, brand story and mission statements. New team support becoming available: project manager being interviewed, Lauren returning to help with research and image sourcing.
Produce and release the primary Gaia Warriors vision video as the anchor piece for the entire launch campaign and ambassador call. Gaia has the channeled message, script, and pieces ready - estimating one week of focused work to complete (19:11). The video will communicate the core philosophy and invitation of Gaia Warriors more powerfully than written content, serving as the emotional and conceptual center that will resonate with the intended network. Video will invite collective participation and frame the platform as a movement rather than a personal project, embodying the shift from 'I' to 'we' language that defines the Gaia Warriors approach (13:05). This piece is critical path for ambassador recruitment and launch momentum.
Integrate community event calendars from local sources (KVMR radio, community organizations) into Gaia Warriors platform to surface local happenings and enable member RSVPs. System will coalesce events from multiple community sources without manual updates.
Approach established: iCal/Google Calendar subscription method (19:23). Flow: Subscribe to external calendars via Google Calendar tied to calendar@gaiawarriors.com address, then connect into Airtable or surface directly on Webflow site as public calendar. This allows aggregation of multiple community event feeds.
Member features (20:25): RSVPs visible to other members, filtering events by Gaia Warriors community member attendance, @mentioning events in forums/chats (healers forum, Nevada City thread), event links with attendee visibility in community discussions.
Core intention alignment: Build online community features that translate into more in-person interaction (24:05). Event/RSVP/forum integration serves as strong lever for online-to-offline translation.
Alternative approaches researched via Claude consultation (17:33): Zapier/Make automation checking KVMR calendar on schedule and pushing to Airtable, Airtable Automations with JavaScript fetch script, iCal feed sync via Airtable native sync. iCal subscription approach chosen for flexibility and multi-source aggregation.
Work held until James returns from Portugal mid-June (25:10). Directory population is current priority.
Design and implement ambassador program structure modeled on inverted Greenpeace approach — instead of calling out bad actors, celebrate those doing good. Ambassadors coordinate monthly missions, document outcomes, share back to platform so communities can learn from and inspire each other. Structure informed by Gaia Warriors' four years with Greenpeace (28:35): headquarters designs monthly missions, local team leaders (ambassadors) receive materials and coordinate, volunteers gather to execute mission, document results, and report back. For Gaia Warriors this becomes celebrating regenerative action rather than protest. Also references Nevada City COVID-era resilience meetings model: attendees break into interest-based pods (permaculture, media, etc.) to find local collaborators. Interest-based local clustering becomes core ambassador meeting format. Key design challenge: How to make ambassador meetings consistent enough to feel like Gaia Warriors, while flexible enough to let each community make them their own? How to incentivize ambassadors to bring activity back to platform rather than letting it become disconnected local potluck? Ambassador recognition system: Premium tiered artifacts for ambassadors (e.g., 3D-printed metal Merkaba with cuboctahedral geometry). Pins/buttons that signal membership and create recognition between Warriors in the wild (22:00-25:08). Long-term vision: Replicate launch event model in each town — use gatherings to activate directory locally and let people meet in person before/alongside digital platform. Regional ambassadors manage each bioregion globally. Platform features needed: Ambassador profiles, mission coordination tools, documentation submission workflows, recognition/reward systems, interest-based clustering interfaces. Must design incentive structures that translate online activity into in-person connection and vice versa.
Build Gaia Warriors certification process for businesses and contributors with rigorous vetting, multiple tiers, and community-driven recognition system. Addresses need for verified quality standards beyond self-claims. Core principles established (35:50): Not self-claims but verified credentials with follow-up checks 6-12 months later. Multiple tiers - easy to enter ecosystem, harder to become exemplar. Business of the Month highlights as reward for certified members. Community involvement: Members can identify worthy businesses (inverse of Greenpeace sticker campaigns). Going to good businesses with gifts, profiles, and invitations to join rather than targeting bad actors. Certification categories: Organic restaurants (verified organic/farm-to-table/ethically sourced), healers with verified training/credentials, permaculture projects with documented results, sovereignty services meeting ethical standards, artists/musicians meeting quality/alignment thresholds. System requirements: Application and vetting workflows, verification check-ins scheduled 6-12 months post-certification, tiered badge/recognition system visible on profiles, Business of the Month feature rotation, community nomination interfaces. Technical implementation: Airtable for certification tracking and workflow management, Webflow badges/visual recognition on directory profiles, n8n for automated follow-up scheduling and reminder workflows. Builds on assessment systems technology but focused on business/contributor verification rather than individual member assessments.
Design Gaia Warriors with interoperability capabilities from the start — pathways between communities for resource sharing, exposure, and learning. James heading into conversation with 12 platform builders discussing interoperability frameworks (43:23). Insights from that conversation will inform Gaia Warriors architecture. Core vision: Communities should be able to share members, resources, events, and learning without platform lock-in. Example discussed: Cross-pollination framework where courses run simultaneously across Gaia Warriors and Hollow Movement with shared participants. Technical considerations: API architecture for data exchange, shared authentication systems, event syndication between platforms, member profile portability, content cross-posting capabilities. Strategic partnerships to explore: Seeds platform for tokenization/incentives (40:25), Hollow Movement for course sharing and community overlap, Purpose Earth for fundraising/grants integration, other consciousness-focused platforms in the 12-builder interoperability conversation. May involve integration with existing standards or protocols for decentralized identity, data portability, or inter-platform communication. Research phase will clarify specific technical approaches. This positions Gaia Warriors as node in larger ecosystem rather than walled garden — aligns with core philosophy of amplifying human connection across boundaries.
Define clear MVP scope for September 2026 launch — identify what must launch versus what can follow in phases. Working plan established (44:17): Next week identify MVP scope, wireframe and prototype MVP features, develop and bring in beta testers, launch in September. Key decisions needed: Which directory categories launch first (healers, restaurants, artists confirmed; others TBD). Which community features are essential versus nice-to-have. How much of membership system must be operational. What certification/vetting can be phased. Which ambassador program elements launch versus roll out post-launch. Payment timeline confirmed (01:39): Installment now, end of July, end of August working toward September launch. This scoping work determines allocation of remaining development time and budget. FigJam session planned to review and document decisions. Gaia Warriors to return to FigJam to add materials and priorities (47:11). Deliverable: Clear feature list with launch/post-launch designation, wireframes for MVP features, development timeline through September, beta testing plan.
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Gaia Warriors: Pardon?
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James Redenbaugh: It's early for you.
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Gaia Warriors: This meeting is being recorded. It is early. It's early.
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James Redenbaugh: How was Portugal coming in, though?
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Gaia Warriors: Pardon?
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James Redenbaugh: Beautiful light coming in the window behind you. Yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, we've got lots of good light here. Yeah. How was Portugal?
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James Redenbaugh: It was amazing. It was great. It was. The conference went really well. We lost this app. It was really well received. Yeah. Couldn't have been better. Super fun. And then the honeymoon was just incredible. Really great to be offline for 10 days and exploring these beautiful islands and eating really yummy food and feel very lucky.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, I'm so happy for you. You look rejuvenated.
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James Redenbaugh: Thanks.
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Gaia Warriors: One of my friends went to that event.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, I saw your friend Elizabeth. Elizabeth? Yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah.
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James Redenbaugh: She came up to me and she said, I know Tess. And I was like, oh, my God.
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Gaia Warriors: I know. It was kind of cool. I was like. I felt like I was showing off a little bit. I was like, my dude that's building my website built their website and he's gonna be there. And she was like, what's his name? And I told her and she's like, I'm gonna say hello to him. So that was cool.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. So.
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Gaia Warriors: James 3.
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James Redenbaugh: Oh.
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Gaia Warriors: SG306. I'm about to send you the payment right now for this next installment. And then I know I'm really badly delayed, but I was thinking I'm going to send you the next one right now and then send you one at the end of July and the end of August and then maybe launch in September.
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James Redenbaugh: Sounds good.
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Gaia Warriors: Does that sound good?
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James Redenbaugh: Cool. Yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: Awesome. I just wanted to, like, I just wanted to wait until I spoke to you to see if everything was fine before I sent it, but I'm gonna do it right now.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, everything's dandy.
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Gaia Warriors: Good. Amazing. Yeah. I had a reshuffling with my work, but now it's all good.
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James Redenbaugh: Still so cool.
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Gaia Warriors: I'm just doing something a little different now.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. We've been learning so much from. From building this holosap that it's. It's really good that we're figuring out the. The bugs over there and the problems and the. And the pitfalls. And when we really get into building Gaia Warriors, it's going to be much easier. So it's.
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Gaia Warriors: That's awesome. I'm so happy. I'm trusting in the divine timing of it all.
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James Redenbaugh: Great. And I'm. I'm really excited to get into it and see it, like, take shape and.
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Gaia Warriors: Me too.
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James Redenbaugh: And get beta users in there and playing with stuff. I think it could be really Cool.
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Gaia Warriors: Do you want me to send you the screenshot to your phone?
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James Redenbaugh: Sure.
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Gaia Warriors: Or email?
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James Redenbaugh: Phone's fine. Okay,.
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Gaia Warriors: Cool. So glad that's done.
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James Redenbaugh: Great. Thank you so much.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, I've been plugging away at the, at the directory. I mean keep doing it and I'm going to keep doing it. I had a question around it like, so because you know, obviously I was going to start off with a certain amount and then I was going to expand. Is there. Would it be like a thing that I plug it in and the templates would automatically populate or how does it. How is that, how would that work? Or does something to do it?
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James Redenbaugh: What do you mean? The templates automatically populate?
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Gaia Warriors: So like, so say we start off with a number of towns, but I want to keep going. Like say because I want to do the whole world eventually. Oh, I just got an earthquake detected alert.
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James Redenbaugh: Wow.
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Gaia Warriors: It's only two. It's 200 kilometers away though. Yeah. If I wanted to do, if I wanted to keep going, like, because I want to do the whole world. Does when I put the information to turn to airtable, does it then translate into the profile cover things like the things that you showed me automatically or does that something that someone needs to. Like I need to have someone do that or I need to learn how to do that?
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James Redenbaugh: It will, it will sync automatically.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, cool.
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James Redenbaugh: One way or another, we might, We might at a certain point change the system. So instead of airtable, it's. Something else. Or we might keep airtable. So it's always synced in that way. But short answer, it'll be whatever you're. You're using will be synced with the live site so you can input things there and it'll show up on the site.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, awesome. Okay, cool. Yeah. Because I might start being ambitious and do like a bunch of stuff, a bunch of towns in the directory.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Be ambitious.
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Gaia Warriors: Yay.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. And we can have some field in there that's like a trigger field so that when it changes from like status of like draft to publish, then it goes online and that way you can input things before you're ready for them to be online and then just publish the ones that you want.
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Gaia Warriors: Okay. So. So there'll be like a. So I'll put it all. Okay. So you'll. There'll be an extra step that I could choose which ones I want to publish or kind of thing. Okay, that sounds good. Yeah, I'm stoked with that because it's actually a lot quicker. The AI makes it so much quicker to do this directory. And I was like, wow, it's not actually taking me that long to do a whole town. Like, I did the whole of the only. My only limit limitation is when I get out of credits and then I have to wait until two or three hours to start again. But it's not too bad. Like, yeah, I'm really enjoying the process. I feel like I have. I kind of feel bad. I'm like, oh, I feel like this is my slave. And I'm just like, do this, do this, do this. So I'm always just like, please, thank you. Great job.
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James Redenbaugh: I know. I do that as well. I like positive reinforcement. Reinforcement.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah. I feel like, oh, my God. I've never, like, been someone that's just like, so dictator. Like, do that, do that, do this next, this one next, this one next without a break, you know? Yeah.
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James Redenbaugh: If you think about it, though, it's not a slave entity, but an aspect of yourself, I think that can help with it because it's like we tell ourselves to do things all the time. Eat breakfast, you know, walk upstairs, sit down and do this.
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Gaia Warriors: But sometimes I do feel like a little slave bitch. Like when I'm tired and I'm like, get up and work instead of, like, just relax, take the day off.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: But, yeah, I hear you.
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James Redenbaugh: Picture of it as an aspect of yourself that has infinite energy and infinite.
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Gaia Warriors: Time and it actually enjoys it.
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James Redenbaugh: And it enjoys it. Yeah. And as long as you're nice to it and you're giving it interesting things to do it, I think it does. But it's just like concentrated human intelligence and experience.
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Gaia Warriors: Right.
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James Redenbaugh: In digital form. So I think it's. It's good to leverage and I hope that we can find. More sustainable ways to. To use it.
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Gaia Warriors: I know. I was just thinking about that amount of land and water it takes is up.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. I mean, the, the amount and land. Of land and water that your efforts are taking up is such like a minuscule amount of what's, you know, what's happening in the world, but it is. It is fucked up and. And something to be aware of, you know, how are we contributing to that.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah.
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James Redenbaugh: System that's potentially harming the planet? Because eventually we're going to need a more sustainable model.
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Gaia Warriors: I wanted to put like a little thing up on the website to say something like, no AI has been used in the content or any of the art. Everything is organic. Everything is, like, human made. I wanted to, like, because I wanted, I want, you know, I'm using the AI for the research part of it. But I don't want to use it for any of the arts. I don't want to use it for any of the content. I don't want to, you know, I want everything to be like, still promoting our human creativity and things, you know.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, yeah. And that's also an interesting way to think about marketing this. In a time where AIs are becoming more and more prevalent, how do we remember our humanness? How do we celebrate humans? How do we use AI to bring the important things forward, not replace them?
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, exactly.
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James Redenbaugh: And as, you know, as AIs can do our accounting and, you know, lawyering and scheduling and researching, how do we make more time for the human things that, that maybe we've not had enough time for in the last 20 years? How can we spend more time with, with healers and in community and making art and, and growing food and learning and bettering ourselves with real humans. That feels like the, the bright potential of Gaia Warriors, like not, not letting ourselves and our wills be replaced by AIs. And I think that the, the real enemy is not these new LLMs. It's like the social media. That has captured so much of our minds the last 10 years. You know, the average person spends six hours on their phone.
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Gaia Warriors: Ready?
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, that's a lot.
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Gaia Warriors: I don't think I do that much.
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James Redenbaugh: I hope not. And it's like, what if, what if we didn't do that? You know, what if my agent was on my phone for me and all I did was show up to events and be with people and.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah.
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James Redenbaugh: Be in the garden and learning and teaching.
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Gaia Warriors: We. That's what I do think we need to leverage it for, for the stuff that we. Yeah. Don't really need to spend time doing. I, I was just thinking as well, part of the directory, I was thinking of listing like the artists and the musicians because I feel like they are contributing to a better world. Like I was, Listen, I was. I've already listed like all the earth stewards and the permacultures and the farmers and all that kind of stuff, but I was like, well, I feel like those dudes are the guy Warriors too. You know, like anyone that's brave enough to do art as their job. When you get told that you can't be an artist in this world, I think that they're some of the bravest Warriors on our planet.
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James Redenbaugh: Totally. Yeah. And I'd be happy to give you access to my Awakening World database where I found these, these artists.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, cool, you've got the visual artist, musician Arthur Correct.
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James Redenbaugh: Cool.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, that looks so cool. The little earth thing like that. That looks awesome.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, we'll have one for you. Yay. For sure.
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Gaia Warriors: Nice. Yeah, that looks sweet.
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James Redenbaugh: I. I got to remember, use this more myself cuz it's, it's fun to just, you know, instead of listening to Spotify or. I canceled my Spotify subscription. I just Apple Music now.
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Gaia Warriors: But like Spotify are funding the war, huh?
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. And they don't really pay musicians and I, you know, I used to love the Discovery Weekly playlist that they would make for me and lately I feel like it's just a bunch of AI generated bullshit. And I don't know, I like Apple Music now, but I'm mostly like listening to old playlists that I've made over the years. But here I like exploring and even though I put these together, feeling like I want to listen to somebody in India right now or Iran or. Oh yeah, I'll go visit Aurora in, in Sweden and remember her and use this as like a music player instead of, instead of Apple Music.
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Gaia Warriors: So. But so you're using YouTube.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, so just embedded YouTube or some of them.
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Gaia Warriors: Did you just click on. Oh, you just clicked on the thing and it was right there. Oh, wow. That's cool.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: Nice. That's awesome.
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James Redenbaugh: And actually I'm gonna send you this album. I think that, I think you would like it.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, thanks. Yeah, I've heard and Camp are the best for supporting artists, huh?
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. This is my friend's album that he recorded I guess like 15 years ago now around the time of our friend John's passing. And it's just so sweet and pure and the message is so. Conscious and fun and bright and like folky and I think he'd really vibe with the awesome.
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Gaia Warriors: Thanks.
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James Redenbaugh: And the lyrics. But yeah, it's kind of side sidetrack. I'll text that to you.
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Gaia Warriors: But yeah, that was cool. I was, I, I really like seeing that little earth thing and seeing how you could play the music straight away. That was awesome. That was really cool.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. So it'd be fun to, to think about doing something like that.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, totally.
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James Redenbaugh: I want to. I did a podcast the other day and I was talking about the Holos app, but it's true for everything I want to build where the design and the technology, if it's successful, it's just getting out of the way of human connection. It's like I see humans as these sources of light and creativity and ideas and we have formed these fiber optic connections with the world and with each other and we Share ourselves and we share our purpose. And, You know, technology can either diminish that and dampen it or amplify it. And I want to build tools that amplify that. And some things that look like it's amplifying it, like social media, where things get viral, it will amplify. This message can be good. It can be really great to. For good stuff to get out there, but it can also have the opposite effect. Even if it's looking like it's amplifying somebody's voice, they could actually be becoming more isolated. It could actually not be reaching the right people, or their message might be a. Like a. A segment or, you know, a momentary talking point instead of a grounded world that can be built upon. And as we're trying to build a new world and build villages, we need ways to create things that last and relationships that last. And like followers on Facebook or followers on Instagram or posts aren't that they're so temporary and they're very translating. They're. They're not living.
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Gaia Warriors: You know, I really love that you said that, because that's what my intention with Guy worries is, that we can. We create this online community, but then it translates into in person. And that's why I want ambassadors in each town that will, like, initiate a meeting place, and then people will come, and then we'll meet in person, and we'll do these monthly missions together. And then we. And then people can locally meet who in their town. They, you know, and then, like, the whole, like, their wants and their needs and their skills, and then they can, like, start collaborating with people in their town. And I saw this guy, he's got a. A podcast or, like a video channel, and he wants to create community, and he said the best way to start doing that is he starts having these residencies. So people will, like, go and live in the same house. They'll go and rent. They'll go and rent, like, a couple of houses in the same neighborhood for like, six months. And then they get to know each other in person, and they get to see who vibes with who, and they make, like, these real, real connections. And then once those real connections are made, they're like, okay, now let's start the community. And we know each other because you don't want to start communities of people you haven't lived with. You know, you want to live with them first and see what the resonance and what their frequency is like and stuff. And so he's been doing these residencies, and that's how he's saying that people should do that, get to live with each other first in a house, see who you want to collaborate with, and then the collaborations start. So that's why we need to start building these connections in these relationships in person and seeing and being with people as much as we can in person, you know, and he said he's met people that are like, he's now long term friends and collaborators and they're going to build together because they. They lived in this house and they vibed and now they're like besties, you know?
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James Redenbaugh: Mm. I love it.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, I'm totally with you on that. I really wanted to trans. This whole point is to translate in person.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Awesome. Let's think about a physical artifact that can be a portal to the platform. So, like some physical thing that we can make and, you know, mass produce or print or 3D print or laser cut or something that, that we'll see is like a physical manifestation of the site that people can hold and touch and share. And so, like with Montaya, we had these laser cut wooden stickers made of different reclaimed woods, and we. They were kind of expensive, but we laser cut thousands of them and we would give them out to people on their travels. And it was just the logo in a mandala with a link to the website. But I can't tell you, Even now, like, 10 years later, I'll run into people that I haven't seen in 10 years, and they're like, your logo is still on my desk or still on my computer, or I still have this mandala, this. This artifact. And you know, my one regret is I wish I put a QR code on there somewhere to make it more of a. An actual portal to something. But when people have that thing that they can hold on to, and if people are meeting together in person and we can have some tangible thing.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, I love this idea.
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James Redenbaugh: This would be an expensive option, but maybe for ambassadors, there's like a. An even special object. This is 3D printed metal that's gold plated. And, you know, this one little thing,.
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Gaia Warriors: It was like, I have a copper one like that. Yeah, it's tensor rings.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah.
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah. It's. It creates an energy field and it protects you. Right? It's like a.
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James Redenbaugh: Yes. Yeah. This is a Merkaba with the cuboctahedral geometry around it.
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Gaia Warriors: Well, James, I'm gonna get tons of investments. I know the sky's the limit. I can get those things and, you know, all the things. But I love the idea of having a little. I was even Thinking, like, a little button that they could wear could be an option.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Pins.
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Gaia Warriors: A little pin, you know?
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah, Those are great. That reminds me, what's the movie? Well, we're sharing media. Yes. With Tomorrowland. Have you ever seen Tomorrowland?
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Gaia Warriors: Haven't.
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James Redenbaugh: I'm gonna text you that as homework.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, my God. I actually was just thinking how tired I am that I want to watch a movie tonight.
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James Redenbaugh: So let's check it out. It's. It's kind of corny, And it's a Disney movie, but it's also really cute,.
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Gaia Warriors: And I love Disney movies.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. The premise is that there's this other world,.
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Gaia Warriors: And.
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James Redenbaugh: All the, like, scientists and creatives from the world have been brought into this other dimension where they're trying to solve the world's problems, and they invite, like, the smartest people to come join them over there. And they're given this pin that. That symbolizes their membership, but it also acts as, like, the transporter to this other dimension.
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Gaia Warriors: Oh, cool.
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James Redenbaugh: So it's like the perfect metaphor because it could be this kind of. This marker where if you have the pen, like, you know. You know, if you're. If you're in Gaia Warriors, you see somebody else with their pen and you're like, oh, you're like, you're a. You're a guy, a warrior. We can go to this other dimension together.
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Gaia Warriors: And that's so cool, because that is what it's about, like, getting people to go to the fifth dimension, Unity Consciousness, you know, raising our vibration and doing. Yeah. And learning. Yeah. So that. That's kind of. That metaphor is going to happen of the movie. I love that. And it's like. Yeah. Like, you're part of this, like, secret little club of Warriors that are changing the world, and it's like you're proud to wear it, you know?
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Cool.
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Gaia Warriors: That's cool.
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James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Let's think about that as a design element and also the. The social structure as a design element. So, like a monthly meeting. How can we program that? How do we design those in a way to make them accessible, to let people make them their own, to let people make them what their. Their particular community in their region is wanting, but also make it kind of consistent enough and grounded on the platform so that people actually do it and connect it to what's happening on the platform and not just have it become a local potluck that they do and they forget about the website. But how do we incentivize their. Their coming back to the platform and sharing, you know, what did we create together. What did we. What did we learn? What relationships are forming, Things like that?
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Gaia Warriors: Yeah, totally. There are two ideas have come up that I wanted to do around this. I used to work for Greenpeace for four years, but I was also. I started volunteering with them because I was basically. I just had my Saturn return, my spiritual awakening, and I was like working a 9 to 5 and I wanted to do something different. And I was donating to Greenpeace and they were like, well, they called me up and they're like, can you increase your donation? I was like, well, can I do something like, more involved? And they're like, you can become a volunteer. So I went. I looked at my local area and I saw where the nearest meeting was happening and I went there and they had like the. The main person, which was so. Which is kind of what the ambassador would be. And so that person is like the team leader, coordinator person. And they would receive the mission from headquarters, from Greenpeace. Headquarters would sit, would. They'd all probably get on a phone call and then the Greenpeace headquarters would be like, okay, our next mission is we need to. We're tackling the tuna company and we're going to send you guys the stickers. And these stickers are basically. This is like one of my favorite ones we did was we tackled this tuna company that would. They were using these nets that would catch 13 airplanes in one net. That's how big these nets would. They would use to troll the ocean. And it would kill all the turtles and dolphins and all this kinds of stuff. And so Greenpeace would. Were basically going against this company. And the way that they did it is so smart because they know that these corporations only care about money. So what do we do? Let's boycott them. So they would create these little stickers and it would say, tamsin the turtle died to make this product. Debbie the dolphin died to make this product. And then we got the stickers they sent. They would mail the stickers to each head, like ambassador or team leader. And then they would have all of the stuff. They would get the team, the volunteers would come together and be like, okay, we have this mission. We have to go to the grocery store and we're going to stick these stickers on all of these tuna products made by the specific brand. And then we would like, get the stickers. And we're like, okay, we're meeting in two days time. We'd all decide on a little date, and then we'd go inside the grocery store and we'd stick these stickers on the thing and then when the little customer comes and they're like, oh, I don't want to buy that product. The turtle died to make that product. And they'd boycott it, you know, and then that's how Greenpeace was successful. And so I felt like I was learning about all of this stuff because that's kind of what I want to do. These monthly missions, I have my ambassadors, the ambassadors, we all get on a call together, I'll explain what the mission is. And then we, if we have to post materials, we do that. And then when the meeting comes, the ambassador will be like, okay guys, this is our next mission. And then the ambassador or someone in the group, I would want them to take photos or like, and then they have to like post what they did, you know, post the mission online. And then we can all like connect and be like, oh my God, you know, like, look how that team did it. And this is how we did it. And we can compare notes and. Yeah, so that's kind of what I was thinking. And then another thing that we did here in Nevada City during COVID was we had these resilience meetings and we would have. Every Monday we would come to this building where I'm at right now, and we'd have these meetings and everybody would go around, we'd go around, we'd introduce who we are, we'd say what our needs are. What. What? No, what. Yeah, what our project's about and what we're looking for. And then at the end we would divide into these groups. Like we'd have permaculture and then we'd have media and then we'd have. So we'd have all these different topics and then whichever one that you wanted to connect with people about, you'd meet. So we'd have like groups of like 10 groups of like five people in each one. And then they would talk about media. Like I'd meet all the people around my area that were in media and we would talk about what projects are working on, how we could help each other, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so I really like the idea of that as well because then you can meet the like minded people that are working in the specific. Like all the farmers could meet each other and all the, you know, all the whatever kind of thing I was thinking about.
00:32:54
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Awesome. One sec, I'm going to run to the bathroom real quick.
00:33:00
Gaia Warriors: No worries.
00:33:02
James Redenbaugh: Sa. It. Okay, I'm back.
00:33:57
Gaia Warriors: Cool.
00:34:04
James Redenbaugh: So yeah, it's. I'm curious if. There wants to be some kind of Gaia Warriors manifesto. Maybe it already exists in some form. Manifesto is probably not the right word wo manifesto. Or something like that, because I feel like if we take Greenpeace as a. As an analogy, I feel like Gaia Warriors is similar, but instead of kind of. Of calling out the people that are doing bad, you want to call out the people that are doing good.
00:34:51
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, exactly.
00:34:53
James Redenbaugh: And I'm curious, like, how do we want to define doing good? Like, I think that. There's definitely going to be a local and global component where the. The people or the organizations are going to be striving to make the world a better place, but also focusing on the community. And, like, how. How can we create resiliency here? How are we helping our neighbors? How are we preparing for, you know, collapse and catastrophe? If that were. Were to come, and. And if there are businesses, people, service providers that are doing those things, I want to support them. You know, if there's a restaurant that has that awareness that's like, yeah, I'm a restaurant. I'm trying to make money. I'm trying to feed my family, but I also care about the world. I care about how I'm sourcing these ingredients, and I care about the community. And if. If the world were to collapse tomorrow, like, could we. Could we find a way to keep providing food? You know, could we. Could we do that? And if I had a list of restaurants in Philadelphia that. That had that awareness, I would only eat at those restaurants.
00:36:27
Gaia Warriors: Right.
00:36:28
James Redenbaugh: Why would I want to eat anywhere else?
00:36:31
Gaia Warriors: Well, I'm so glad that you said that, because I was speaking to my. One of my friends. She's, like, always. She's, like, the idea girl. Like, she's so good at ideas. She's constantly coming up with ideas. And she was saying I should come up with a Guy Warriors certification. And then you. You can get like, some sort of, like, Guy Warriors certification that. But I need to figure out, because I want it to be kind of rigorous, you know, Like, I don't want it to be like claims. It has to be like, you have to go and see what they're doing, what they claim they're doing. And then you have to go back, like, six months or a year later to see if they're actually following through with their claims. You know what I mean? But I love. I. I really want to do that, and I want to put, like, every. Yeah, there needs to be some sort of vetting process so that everything that's on the directory is. Has been vetted and that every time you put your money towards this thing, it is going to create the world a better place.
00:37:30
James Redenbaugh: Exactly.
00:37:31
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. Yeah. I would love to do some sort of certification process. I think that would be awesome. Yeah. What else did I want to say about all of that? Yeah. Yeah. Calling out all the. The people that are doing good. I love, I love that you said that instead of all the ones that are doing bad. I don't know. I was going to say one more thing, but I can't remember it right now.
00:38:14
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. If there's a. A certification process and maybe there's. Multiple levels, like, we want to make it easy for people to. To get in the door and hard to be like an exemplar. So, you know, like, if we're. If we're Greenpeace and we're identifying the companies that are. Killing the planet, you know, we want to go put stickers on their door, but how could we empower people to identify the. The. The businesses that are worth supporting and go and like, bring them, you know, stickers, bring them a gift or, you know, get them. Get them in the door, get them a profile on the site, get them a part of the conversation, and then incentivize their. They're becoming certified or whatever we want to call it.
00:39:42
Gaia Warriors: Yeah. I was thinking what would be. What could be really cool is we could highlight, like a different business each month or something too. Like, we could highlight and be like this one. So they would get like, maybe the incentivization is if they get the certification that they would. We would highlight them and then they. A bunch of people would see their products or see their business or whatever, you know.
00:40:07
James Redenbaugh: Yeah.
00:40:07
Gaia Warriors: And then we could further incentivize it that that company gives a free product to the person who shares their thing a hundred times or what, you know, whatever. I really want to incentivize, like, the sharing of things.
00:40:24
James Redenbaugh: Yeah.
00:40:25
Gaia Warriors: Someone was telling me that there's a way to like, tokenize things. Like, you can. If I could create some sort of token, like a guy Warriors token, and then you could like, incentivize, like, you know, incentivize sharing, incentivize watching, incentivize people's attention. But I don't really know how that works or how I could maybe create in the future, you know, maybe a crypto, something like seeds that you can incentivize people to do things with their attention and sharing stuff. Then they. They earn a sort of token, and that token allows them something or. I don't know.
00:41:09
James Redenbaugh: There definitely are ways to do that. And it's a pretty saturated world where most of those things haven't worked out. Maybe you could partner with somebody who.
00:41:25
Gaia Warriors: Is already doing it.
00:41:27
James Redenbaugh: That's good doing that.
00:41:30
Gaia Warriors: Do you think Seeds is good?
00:41:33
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, I think Seeds is. Seeds is great. I haven't been tuned in lately to what they're. What they're doing. I know their founder.
00:41:51
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, I interviewed him.
00:41:54
James Redenbaugh: Franz, or the other guy.
00:42:00
Gaia Warriors: The other guy. Well, he was the one that created it. And then I think he's not as active with it, but he. He's the one that created it. He was at the. Do you know Will from the Dao. The Dow thing? Star C Dao Incubator dude.
00:42:21
James Redenbaugh: Yes.
00:42:22
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, he was at the. He was. I was interviewing all the people at his thing.
00:42:27
James Redenbaugh: Oh, cool.
00:42:30
Gaia Warriors: It is kind of a small world, huh?
00:42:31
James Redenbaugh: The.
00:42:33
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, we all kind of know each other. The people that are doing the. Or whatever. Yeah, the change maker people kind of each other.
00:42:52
James Redenbaugh: Yeah. Seeds is.
00:42:59
Gaia Warriors: I would love to partner with them and see if they would be down to. In, you know, donate seeds for people to like. I definitely wanted to, you know, incentivize the missions. You know, like the person that makes the most effort to, you know, to volunteer or to whatever, you know, gets like a prize or something. That would be cool.
00:43:23
James Redenbaugh: Awesome. Cool. And we definitely want to design the platform to be. Interoperable and compatible with other things like seeds and. And DAOs. I'm a part of a conversation after this meeting, actually, with 12 people, most of whom have their own platforms that they're working on and communities doing different things. And we're talking about how to create pathways between them for resource sharing and exposure.
00:44:12
Gaia Warriors: Amazing.
00:44:13
James Redenbaugh: And learning. So.
00:44:17
Gaia Warriors: Let me know how it goes. That's already cool.
00:44:20
James Redenbaugh: I will, definitely. Cool. Well, there's a lot here, a lot I'm excited to get back into with the. With the technology you're working on, the. The database in. In airtable. Let's. Let's plan for a September deadline and work backwards from there to create a timeline of what we need to do. Let's next week identify, like, a clear MVP scope. What do we want to launch with in September? Because we talked about lots of possibilities and we want to see, like, okay, what are. What do we really need to get the ball rolling here? And then we can wireframe and prototype those things and then develop them, get people on there testing it, and then we'll have an app.
00:45:37
Gaia Warriors: Cool. That sounds.
00:45:41
James Redenbaugh: Okay. Great. Well, I've given you the homework to watch this movie and listen to this album.
00:45:49
Gaia Warriors: Yeah, I will do that. And I will continue plugging away at the. At the. The directory. I got ill when you went away, so I was a little out of it for a little bit. But it's super weird. Every single person I know got ill in June.
00:46:07
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, I was ill last week.
00:46:10
Gaia Warriors: Isn't that crazy? What the.
00:46:13
James Redenbaugh: Something. Something in the wave.
00:46:16
Gaia Warriors: That's what I think.
00:46:17
James Redenbaugh: Everybody I know got ill, too, too.
00:46:19
Gaia Warriors: Everybody I know. I was ill for, like, 10 days, almost two weeks.
00:46:23
James Redenbaugh: It's weird, I think. Downloads coming in.
00:46:26
Gaia Warriors: I wonder if it's. Yeah, like, you know, there's the one story of, like, oh, they targeted us with frequencies or whatever. And then the other one's like, no, we're all just ascending and we all just purged out some. That's what I like to say. Sicknesses. Now it's just purging for my ascension.
00:46:48
James Redenbaugh: Yeah, I like it.
00:46:49
Gaia Warriors: Our bodies are upgrading to receive more light.
00:46:52
James Redenbaugh: Totally. Let it be so let it be.
00:46:58
Gaia Warriors: So and so it is.
00:46:59
James Redenbaugh: And so it is.
00:47:01
Gaia Warriors: Okay, cool. I will make another thing for next week.
00:47:07
James Redenbaugh: Sounds good. I'll see you then. And I'll see you in the meantime. Cool.
00:47:11
Gaia Warriors: And I will look at the figjam. I haven't read. I've just been more, like, directory focused. But I will go back onto that and look at things and add things and whatever.
00:47:21
James Redenbaugh: Okay, great. Sounds good.
00:47:23
Gaia Warriors: Cool. All right. Bye, James. Hope you have a beautiful day and beautiful weekend.
00:47:28
James Redenbaugh: Thank you. You too. Talk soon.
00:47:30
Gaia Warriors: Okay, bye.
00:47:31
James Redenbaugh: Bye.
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