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

We're Going Back...

An Assault on Our Nation

I don't hate guns. As a kid my Dad let us shoot bb-guns and even his 22-shotgun. So I get the rush. I get the fun of shooting a can off a fence and for those into hunting I get that it can be a family tradition and a bonding experience. I know several humane and decent people who eat what they shoot and though not my thing I understand the primordial urge to hunt for prey.  

What I don't get is how we went from the NRA and gun owners wanting to encourage firearm education and responsibility to a free-for-all of anyone under any circumstance owning weapons of war? 

I loved lawn jarts but we don't sell those anymore because they caused a lot of injuries and took out many an eye. Three children died from lawn jarts so they were banned, can't be resold and also can't be used in public spaces. So for fucks sake, how are we allowing our kids to be slaughtered and terrorized at school and not at least agreeing on the basics of gun safety? How can anyone look at this girl on a school bus fleeing horror and not think we have a problem?

Firearms are the #1 cause of death for children and teens. It used to be auto accidents but we made cars safer, enacted seatbelt laws and did other things to focus on the issue. In contrast, we have put more guns out in the country and have numbed ourselves into accepting that school shootings are a way of life. That active shooter drills aren't causing anxiety in our kids. That politics is us against them when it should be all hands on deck to save lives. Children's lives!

This is not even touching on the suicide and homicide and violence that more guns have brought to our streets. Those stats might be overlook-able to gun lovers since they think it won't affect them. But how can we sit by and let someone's hobby and fun become the number one killer of our kids?

And for those who like to cite the 2nd Amendment I ask if they have indeed read it:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

WELL-REGULATED!! That's how it starts. And the right is tied to being part of the militia to secure the state you reside in. Not to mention this was ratified in musket times. It in no way implies that anyone can own weapons of war for their own fun and pleasure. As a matter of fact it reads to me as this right comes with the responsibility to protect your own state and the citizens within it. 

So here is my solution: anyone who wants to own an automatic/semi-automatic/war-like gun needs to be trained, licensed (the regulated part) and on call for state emergencies (the security of the State part). I think this is not only grammatically aligned with the Constitution but is in the spirit of what our Founders had in mind.

Our military and police are not just handed weapons- they are trained in their use, when to use them, how to store them and the consequences of firing them. There is a reverence for what they can do and the responsibility for caring one on your person. They pledge to protect the public/country from harm. That is what we need from gun owners now. 

If you won't defend your State and the children that reside in it, you have forfeited this right. 

Creating YOUR Year ... 🎊 🖌️

Me Mapping Creating Your Year 2022 from Joy Meredith

2021 😳 ... amiright?!!

I have much much higher hopes for 2022, but as always I need to map it out to really see and live into it. So join me 😊

Happy Mapping & Cheers to a Happy Happy 22!