This one is a thought spiral in the best possible way. Rebecca sits down with Danny Angelo Fluker Jr. — futurist thinker, yoga professional, and author of a white paper that reimagines yoga credentialing from the ground up. What if we owned our own credentials instead of being beholden to a single organization? What if we gave ourselves permission to build something entirely new, rather than patching what’s broken? Danny brings a genuinely different frame to the conversation: futurism not as fantasy, but as a practical tool for imagining systems that actually serve us. They get into decentralized credentialing, the tension between dealing with today’s reality and building toward a different future, how to quiet the objection voices long enough to think clearly, and why bravery sometimes just looks like asking for feedback. They also talk about social media freezing us in time, the gift of holding each other compassionately as we change, and why this moment — right now — is exactly when new things get built. Danny also shares about Black Boys Om’s donation project for healing circles in Atlanta. Check out Danny’s work at dannyspeakspeace.com and blackboysom.org, and follow him on Substack.

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