The Light Ahead

Dec 21 2021 9
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The Light Ahead is a podcast that uses speculative fiction to explore the question, “What would 2030 look like if the USA had an economy that truly worked and cared for everyone?” Through eight stories, co-created by next-economy leaders and Hollywood screenwriters, listeners are invited to expand their economic imaginations by dreaming into a tantalizing array of possible, more beloved, futures.

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Auld Lang Syne

Dec 21 2021 31 mins  
In this episode, we tag along with C.J. who is meeting up with her date on New Year’s Eve. It also happens to be the eve of the Phoenix Act, which will redistribute wealth across the country. C.J. and her date discuss why she supports the Act - and how her own past impacted her perspective on wealth. Are we far from a new approach to wealth distribution and definition? Tune in an

An Extraordinary Ordinary Day in the Life of Rakia McDowell

Dec 14 2021 26 mins  
In this episode, we spend a day in the life of artist Rakia McDowell. As a member of a community who has come together to live and work in ways that enable them to be more whole, Rakia determines her own schedule, buys from thriving local businesses, exchanges resources and skills via a sharing economy, and follows her heart. Could a life in which work is healing and restorative—

Kayla’s Village

Dec 07 2021 32 mins  
In this episode, we join expectant father Marcus and his mother-in-law as they prepare the home for his partner Kayla’s birthing experience. In this home, we are privy to a birth that is supportive and calm, full of intention and choice, and supported by Kayla and Marcus’s entire community. How far off from such possibilities are we today, and what could it look like for our co

Home

Nov 30 2021 25 mins  
What does "home" truly mean? In particular for African American families and individuals that have so often faced displacement from physical homes, driven by economic forces, for generations? In this episode of The Light Ahead, we venture to Brooklyn in the year 2030, where a young woman convinces her grandmother to visit her childhood neighborhood, a neighborhood that has changed

Liberation

Nov 23 2021 27 mins  
Journey into the not-too-distant future in which members of the Oglala Lakota Nation are celebrating a liberated new economy for their Nation that brings back cherished elements of their economic past. Reimagining the education of Lakota youth is a key part of this future. In this episode, we listen in on a national press conference at the opening day of a new Lakota school, at the

New Era

Nov 16 2021 27 mins  
What is a cooperative? Is it a private business, an economic concept, a political statement? In this episode, we’ll hear about a young Cuban-American man trying to convince his Cuban mom that his new job at a factory cooperative is a really good job and in fact, not Communism. In this heartwarming family comedy, we learn what a cooperative really is and that some things, like mom

Starfleet: Pension Fund

Nov 09 2021 30 mins  
Prepare yourselves for the cosmic phenomenon that is “Starfleet: Pension Fund!” In this episode, we will be swept away by the galactic sci-fi show taking over the airwaves in the year 2030. We’ll experience an epic battle between two spaceships, one responsible for investing money to support the government pension funds, the other a hedge fund taking all the money it can for

Fugue

Nov 02 2021 27 mins  
In our first journey into a more beloved economic future, we meet Nona, a woman who can’t remember who or where she is - or what caused her to lose her memory. We follow Nona’s quest for answers as she mysteriously finds herself in a time and place where policing, payment, and community support look very different from the world she last remembers. How will Nona be made whole a

Introducing The Light Ahead

Oct 26 2021 3 mins  
Welcome to The Light Ahead, a fictional podcast that dreams up a 2030 in which the US has an economy that truly works and cares for everyone and helps us imagine how it might be possible to get there. Co-created by next-economy leaders and Hollywood screenwriters, this podcast presents eight unique, fictionalized versions of what our future economy could look and sound like, beyond