Author name: Jess Limbird

Let Confluence help you do The Work

May 2026 Recently, I came across a post by Torie Weiston-Serdan (we’ve never met, but the internet is still good for a thing or two). In it, she’s speaking what I’ve been feeling for a while now. About the changing sameness (thanks, James Baldwin, for that phrase), about the lack of shock at what should be unprecedented, about the numbness that comes from not being shocked. Hope is less hero, more trickster in this moment. What if business wasn’t predicated on a problem to solve, but…

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Confluence as a remedy

April 2026 Admittedly, I’m not a marketing guru. I’m not an expert in sales or running a business. I find myself scrambling to stay afloat in an attention economy game that I don’t really want to be playing. I am fortified by my systems of support, my powerful practices, and the deep knowing in my bones that things can be better. I push away the constant advertising, the quick fixes, the relentless droning on that I need to nip and tuck my business into something that isn’t, well, mine. So I…

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Black Legacies Every Day 2026

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.” James Baldwin February is too short to contain the brilliance and beauty of Black Legacies – histories, currents/presents, and futures. So here’s this year’s list of things I think are neat and you may think are neat, too. I encourage you to return to this totally incomplete list, and add to it, throughout the year. Because Black Legacies deserve to be seen, shared, and celebrated every day. Black…

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