You know that feeling when…

You read about yet another bomb dropped on civilians and think, "At this point, we should just cancel humanity and start over"?

You try to work on your business and wonder, "How could any of this possibly matter when the world is sliding into fascism?"

You want to be part of the solution but your rising rent, chronic illness, and family responsibilities leave you exhausted before you even begin?

This is being alive in 2025. And it's... a lot.

But what if this exhaustion is actually your soul refusing to accept the unacceptable?

What if that restless knowing that whispers "this is not all there is" isn't naive idealism, but prophecy trying to move through you?

The future is trying to emerge through you. Right now. Today. This moment.

Not when you feel ready. Not when you've built the perfect platform. Not when the world looks safer.

The future that your children's children will inhabit is being written by what you choose to do in the next 24 hours.

And here's what the billionaires and genocidaires don't want you to remember:

You already have everything you need to help birth the world that's coming.

Hi, I’m Simone, and I’m totally okay with "delusional."

Did you know…

  • Until 1954, no human could run a mile in under 4 minutes; doctors said the human heart would explode. Now, high school kids are doing it.

  • Half of children dying of diseases before the age of 5 was “God’s will” for thousands of years – until suddenly, it wasn’t. (Thanks, vaccines!!!)

  • In 1910, a 5-day work week was considered a socialist fantasy. Henry Ford was called insane for implementing it in 1926.

Call me unhinged. But I not only believe in, but am totally committed to a future for my children — maybe their children’s children’s children — in which:

  • Capitalism has fallen, the wage economy is gone

  • The earth has regenerated wildly and everyone has abundant food, water, shelter, and resources

  • People move freely across the land, sharing knowledge, wisdom and culture, because nation-states and borders are obsolete

  • There are no prisons, nor punitive systems of any kind, and conflicts are addressed through restorative accountability processes

  • Every single human being wakes up each day knowing they matter, they belong, and their gifts are needed

  • Creativity and play flourish everywhere

Because here's the thing.

Hoping isn’t frivolous, or wishful, or irresponsible, or spiritual bypassing, when it has the roots, teeth, and bones needed to fully engage with harsh realities.

AND when it is allied with spirit, and backed up by sustained action.

That’s when hope becomes a magical technology with the power to channel a new emergence.

If you’re also not impressed by world-as-it-is… if you’re over “being realistic” when “realistic” is dictated to us by billionaires and genocidaires… I want you to know that a different world is coming. Not one that is incrementally better than now, but one that looks like unmitigated flourishing for every last living being.

Yes, I say this with a full chest of "delusional" prophetic verve.

And your role in its making matters critically.

You, and everything that you are, matters critically. In ways that you can’t even know right now.

But you can't step into this calling alone. The same individualism that created these broken systems will NOT be what dismantles them.

TOGETHER is where we practice the art of collective emergence - where your individual gifts meet others' gifts and something entirely new becomes possible.

This is Radical Hope, not wishful thinking or spiritual bypassing.

Despite what we’ve been conditioned to think, hope is not a feeling you wait to have. Hope is a discipline you practice.

Hope doesn't require evidence. Hope creates evidence.

The abolitionists who ended slavery didn't wait for promising circumstances. My Korean elders who overthrew dictatorships didn't act from confidence they'd win. They acted from knowing that injustice cannot have the last word.

When others couldn't see the glimmer of hope, their actions BECAME the glimmer.

And you know what else? You can't fix the world alone — and you were never supposed to. No matter how passionate, gifted, or committed you are.

Not you, not me, not even the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, or Michelle Obama.

We’ve got to do it together. Community is the only thing that ever created big changes.

Nature teaches us how this is true.

Did you know that when you see mushrooms pop up, you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg? Underground, there's this invisible network called mycelium - basically mushroom roots - that connects tree roots throughout vast distances of the forest.

And here's what this network does: it transfers nutrients and water between plants. A large, established tree shares resources with younger saplings. A healthy tree supports a sick one. Trees send chemical signals through the network to warn each other about threats.

This is how forests stay healthy, and regenerate after loss — NOT through individual “heroes”, but through the genius of networks.

The same thing is true of human societies.

You, too, have been part of this network longer than you realize. Every time you've reached out to someone struggling. Every time you've shared a resource. Every time you've chosen to stand up for something when it would have been easier to look away.

Now it's time to do this way more strategically.

With a community behind you.

TOGETHER: Where hope becomes radical praxis

This is not therapy, though it will heal.

This is not activism 101, though it will radicalize you.

This is not a business course, though it will transform your business.

This is a 2-week initiation into an entirely different way of seeing and being. Here is our revolutionary curriculum.

Week 1: Practice prophetic seeing

  • Why hope-as-feeling has been keeping you powerless — and how hope-as-discipline becomes the technology that births new realities. (Every liberation movement figured this out. Now it's your turn.)

  • How wisdom traditions show pain and injustice becoming the raw materials of change (This isn't about healing first, then helping. This is about both happening, together.)

  • Finally exhale the impossible burden you've been carrying to try to know everything, figure out everything alone, and be perfect… and discover the power of change happening through networks. (This will fundamentally shift how you think about your role in important movements.)

  • The wealth audit that will blow your mind — because your weird life experiences, random connections, and unearned advantages (a.k.a. “privileges”) are actually strategic resources waiting to be deployed to change the world.

Week 2: Build your resistance praxis

  • Why "commerce-as-care" isn't an oxymoron — how to build a business that circulates resources instead of hoarding them. (Capitalism requires extraction. Your business can be designed for circulation. Come discover how.)

  • The pricing strategy that breaks the false choice between serving people and paying yourself well. (Spoiler: undercharging doesn't help anyone.)

  • How to market without manipulating — connection, illumination, and care CAN be your entire strategy. (When you genuinely leave people better than you found them, they'll remember you when they're ready.)

  • Why your business success directly funds the revolution — and how to design your work as a site of resistance, not just personal fulfillment. (A broke activist can't sustain the work.)

What you'll walk away with:

  • Your wealth inventory that reveals strategic resources you didn't even know you had — and the exact plan for deploying them immediately. (I promise: you will walk away feeling rich AF in ways that have nothing to do with your bank account.)

  • An action plan you'll actually want to follow because it's designed around your real life, not some impossible standard. (Finally, activism that energizes instead of exhausts.)

  • Business strategies that let you serve your community AND pay yourself well without guilt or compromise. (Yes, both. No, you don't have to choose because the choice is a false binary that sets us up for failures and exhaustion.)

  • Your new underground network of co-conspirators who become your biggest supporters, referral partners, and lifelong friends. (Get ready for the mycelial web made manifest.)

  • Hope that doesn't crumble when you read the news, or have a bad day — the kind with roots deep enough to hold you through anything. (This is the magical technology of future creation.)

This isn’t just about me. But I have to tell you: this is the most important thing I have ever facilitated in my entire life and career, and nothing else comes even close. And I can’t wait to gather with you around this work.

What you get:

  • The transmission: Frameworks and practices that rewire how you think about hope, wealth, and your role in collective transformation — delivered live over two weeks, then available for life.

  • Your underground community: Two weeks of live support in our private Facebook group with direct access to Simone, Rashida, and fellow retreaters. Bring your questions, insights, and breakthroughs daily. Connect, make friends, share ideas. Some dive deep into group discussions. Others work quietly and show up with specific questions. All of it feeds the network.

  • Four live gatherings:

    • Opening ceremony Thursday, 9/11 from 8-9 PM EDT

    • Live Q&A call: Wednesday, 9/17 from 8-9:30 PM EDT

    • Live Q&A call: Thursday, 9/18 from 9-10:30 AM CEST

    • Closing ceremony Thursday, 9/24 from 8-9 PM EDT

      (Replays available for all calls)

  • Your mycelial web: Fellowship with creative souls and changemakers who see what you see — and become part of your support system long after September 24th

    Facebook community stays open through the retreat with lifetime archive access for all participants. (These connections will change everything.)

Details:

  • Dates: Wednesday, September 10 - Wednesday, September 24, 2025

  • Lifetime access to all materials

  • Facebook community stays open through September 24, with lifetime archive access for all participants

  • Price: $100

Once you register, you'll receive all the details about accessing your materials and joining the community on September 10th.

What past participants of TOGETHER have said…

  • "Together was like a sonic boom of elder wisdom and ancient love and magic. My little human self is shooketh in the best way possible."

    @emma__b_f

  • "I can't shut up about how great TOGETHER is. Do yourself a favor and get in the online version!"

    @allie.p.irwin

  • "Simone and Rashida have my heart tender and my mind buzzing. It's one of those learning experiences where every sentence spoken feels like gospel and needs to be printed on a t-shirt & screamed from the rooftops!!"

    @madisonembrey

  • "This gathering is a church of possibility, a reclamation of power, a love letter to future worlds we're already midwifing."

    @meghanomalleymagic

  • "I feel changed and I don't say that a lot."

    @one_love_prison_meditation

  • "What an answered prayer this gathering was! This was such a powerful, joyful, delightful remembering of who I am."

    @drkimberlyrosependleton

  • "The way Simone and Rashida absolutely crack open my heart, smoosh it around and help me create something new. It's powerful medicine…. This was the most soul nourishing time."

    @jenn_sutherland

THE RADICAL HOPE MANIFESTO

1. We the People declare that hope is not a feeling — it is a commitment.

2. Hope does not require evidence. Hope creates evidence.

3. The future is trying to emerge through us right now. It speaks to us through the stirrings of our hearts.

4. We will not heal ourselves within systems that are making us sick. We will heal the systems themselves.

5. We do not heal in isolation, but in connection and collective action.

6. Our wounds are not weaknesses, but intel that shows us what needs to change and how.

7. We summon the courage, creativity, and resilience required to show up through uncertainty. We will not wait we feel ready, confident, and perfectly equipped.

8. We understand that our individual hope practice becomes nourishment for the collective. And the collective hope fuels each person’s capacity to keep choosing.

9. We act as if it is possible to radically transform the world, because it is. Every day. All the time. (said Angela Davis)

10. We do this work not because we see a glimmer of light on the horizon, but because the work itself creates the glimmer.

11. We are the ancestors future generations will thank.

12. We do not need to scorch the earth and tear everything down. We are building the future from the fragments that exist in the present, in all the ways we can. (said Ruth Wilson Gilmore)

The time for Radical Hope is now.

The person for Radical Hope is me.

The world is waiting to emerge through my living commitment, carried lovingly and imperfectly again and again.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is this live retreat in Detroit you’re talking about?

The live event has concluded, but you can read about it here. This online course is the digital version of the live event.

Q: When’s the deadline to join?

A: THERE IS NO DEADLINE TO JOIN.

You can register anytime. If you join before September 10, 2025, you’ll get the full experience with the live pop-up Facebook community and Q&A sessions. If you join after September 24, 2025, you’ll get the self-study version with lifetime access to all materials, but without the live community component.

Q: How do the live Q&A calls work?

A: There will be 2 live Q&A sessions (Wednesday, 9/17 from 8 - 9:30 PM ET and Thursday, 9/18 from 8 - 9:30 AM CEST) throughout the two weeks where you can bring your questions and get direct support from me. Additionally, there will be a live opening ceremony and closing ceremony for the community. Replays of all calls will be available in the course portal. 

Q: Will you offer the online retreat again?

A: The online retreat runs September 10 - 24, 2025. We don’t have plans to repeat it, but you’ll have lifetime access to all materials and we plan to keep the retreat available to purchase.

Q: How long will I have access to the materials?

A: You’ll have lifetime access to everything.

Q: What if I can’t participate during those exact two weeks?

A: The beauty of the online format is flexibility. You can work through the materials at your own pace. If you can’t be active in the pop-up Facebook group or join the Q&As live, you’ll still have lifetime access to everything. You can always engage when it works for you.

Q: How much time will this take each day/week?

A: This is designed to fit your real life. You could spend 30 minutes a day with the materials, or dive deep for a few hours on weekends — whatever works for you. The community and Q&As will be there when you want them, but there’s no required daily commitment.

Q: What’s the difference between this and the live Detroit retreat?

A: You get all the same frameworks and materials. The only difference is format: the Detroit retreat was two intensive days in person, while the online version will give you two weeks to work through everything at your own pace with online community support.

Q: Do I need any special technology or platforms?

A: Just Facebook access for the community group. All materials will be delivered in simple formats you can access from any device.

Q: Do you have a payment plan? Do you offer discounts or scholarships?

A: No, not for this retreat. Please know that we don’t believe in FOMO… we trust that you will instead join us if/when the time is right.

Q: I don’t have a credit card. Do you accept PayPal or something else?

A: Unfortunately, we can’t accept PayPal. We do accept Zelle, Wise, and bank transfers, in addition to debit and credit cards. If you would like information for any of those options, please contact us at support@simonegraceseol.com.

Q: Are you offering a money-back guarantee?

A: No — all sales are final.