Using The Bacon Framework to Save USAID 🇺🇸

I can't get over the cuts Elon Musk was allowed by Trump to make to USAID: United States Agency for International Development.

So angry in fact that I can't get over it! 😡

I had to figure out how I could find a solution to this upset. So here is my plan. 

It's insane, I admit that, but no more insane than letting 14 million people, including 4 million children, die by 2030 from preventable causes.

I used the Bacon Framework to create the plan to get USAID funding reestablished. And here's the thing, it's not just the money, it's the logistics and knowhow that has helped these programs save 90 million lives in the last 2 decades. 

Going to give it a go and see how many degrees up to the goal I can get. Please join me if you have any ideas or connections. Let's get to makin' the bacon!! 🥓 

The Bacon Framework

My bestie, Vickie, created a concept called the Circles of Gold. The basic idea is that you already know all the people it will take to reach a goal. When we reach out to those we know they usually know someone, who knows someone, that can help us get to a connection we need. 

It always reminded me of the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You know, how anyone famous is within six degrees of separation from one of our most beloved stars.   

I had come across this shocking but eventually inspiring story of how P0rnhub removed 80% of it's content because of a NYT article about child and nonconsensual abuse and how it had touched a billionaire and within a handful of people a huge change was made in a nearly impossible to affect industry.

I was so inspired by the story that I took what had only been a drinking game in my past (sorry Kevin 😬) to create this new framework. 

Let's see what we can achieve with our circles 💛 and a little Bacon love! 🤎

Cyclospora Outbreak Summer 2026

UNITED: Bringing Our Country Together [Dem Platform Pitch]

I'm an Independent voter but have been forced by the GOP not standing up to Trump to join with the Dems to try and get checks and balances in place before our country suffers any more damage. 

Here is my pitch to Unite Our Country 🇺🇸 

Qik-Think and summary and notes below for longer version 👉 HERE 

Divided we fall! Leadership is in bringing US together with strength, honor and dignity!  🇺🇸

Under-Babied: How to Bring Back a Baby-Boom

 

Little known fact about me... 👩‍⚕️ but I served as Dr. Oz's 1st assistant on stage when Harpo Studios was doing test-runs of the Dr. Oz Show. So of course I felt called to put my gloves and white coat on and dive in to help him solve this mystery of why we are under-babied and how we can change that if Trump and his team wanted to.

CAUSE

SOLUTION

Longer video walkthrough here. 

Happy to have helped solve this mystery 🕵️‍♀️, you're welcome! 

AI COVERS

More to come...

I woke up to the new year both excited and exhausted. As I normally do, I was contemplating what I wanted to bring into 2026 🤔

Well the two things I can't stop thinking about are how the world is doing both politically and economically and how AI will affect both. I'm also trying to practice detachment to things I can't control because frankly all this chaos is making my nerves a bit crispy. 

So my solution is to use my writing and visual skills to express myself by posting AI Covers.

Basically, I am going to spend the next year using magazine covers as snapshots of conversations I believe these publications should be fostering with our leaders and fellow citizens. You might ask why in a time of digital communication (videos & podcasts) am I focused on this? Well because covers of magazines are the pre-meme original way to draw the masses attention to a topic. They shaped my ideas when I was young and I think they and the articles that accompany them are very important. 

I will be tagging these magazines on social media so that it is clear I am the creator in case the ideas spread and also I want to be upfront these covers are not real but AI/Joy-generated from the ideas I want to write about. My hope is to foster conversations about the various ways AI will be affecting every industry and our world. 

Which leads me back to the origins of this blog: Good Capitalism. 

We are living through the most exciting times of existence. I'm so thrilled to be alive to see it! AND... we have not shown we are very good stewards of each other and our planet so I can't sit by and do nothing. This is me shouting into the void that is our Universe and hoping my voice can be heard. What the hell might as well give it a go 😜 before we are taken over 🤖

GOOD CAPITALISM or ... Goodbye World

A few years ago I began to see the writing on the wall, so I started this project.

A little background... after Covid hit I had gotten laid off and was looking for the opposite of what I had just spent the last few years doing: working in the land of private equity. 

What's a fresh change from PE? ESG: Environmental, Social, Governance.

The recruiter said I was the unicorn she had been looking for: someone who had basic knowledge about sustainability, cared about the planet, and yet could talk the PE finance world verbiage. 

My expertise though was not on the data side, it was talking to c-suite finance guys and exploring with them why they might care about green house gasses, supply-chain labor policies, and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives. 

A change had perked up their interest in ESG, institutional investors were much more likely to hand over their millions to partners who can explain their labor policies, keep their employee retention rates high, and keep them away from the bad press about their carbon footprints. Not to mention if they wanted to do global deals they needed to start working on tracking and making transparent sustainability disclosures that the European Union require. 

What I was perplexed about and then understood quickly is why the principles of ESG are controversial at all? Politics. Also, profits and PR for those who want to milk the idea of do-gooding. But mostly politics!

Which is ridiculous because ESG is a risk mitigation strategy and it's not about the blue or red teams, it's all about the green! The planet and profits go together. Ask the insurance companies who now have to pay out for the blue state CA's wildfires as they recover from the red states' hurricanes. 

Anyway, the project started because I wanted an easy way to tell my friends, family and skeptics what ESG is really about.  

[ READ AFTER YOU FINISHED SLIDEDOC ABOVE ]

What prompted me to take a week off work and finish this project up was the urgency you read about: AI 

And I want to share a little story that makes this so darn surreal...

When I finished up the project I did what we'll all be doing soon, checked it with ChatGPT (shhh don't tell Gemini-- I don't want either to know everything about me 😜). Here is what it started with:

Good Capitalism 2025 project is a powerful, bold, and compelling call to reframe ESG through the lens of urgency, humanity, and systemic risk. You've successfully distilled complex ideas into an engaging, almost conversational style, which is a major strength.

Nice, right?!  

Well then in a moment of meta perfection, this is the #1 thing it told me I needed to improve on: 

It wanted me to point out more emphatically the THREAT IT IS!! 

I mean ....

                  

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Thanks for your time... and be careful out there! 🤗 💚

This project is on its own site, you can follow at GOOD CAPITALISM

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