For The Worldbuilders
Episodes
089. You’re More Powerful Than You Allowed Yourself To Imagine, Now What?
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to honor all the work you’ve done this year by offering a Winter Solstice spell, inviting you to get curious abo...
088. Why You Don’t Have What You Want
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Read full newsletter: Why You Don’t Have What You Want — The Missing Link In The Be, Do, Have FrameworkRegister for free Discovery Workshop: Seed ...
087. Carving Out SPACE for Creative Ceremony
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode is about integration. How do we go forward with all the colonial code, bumping up against the remembrance of our ancestral code? ...
086. Retreating Inside Agency Inspiring Desire Instead of Paralyzing Fear
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to invite us to re-calibrate inside our desire. As we search for safety, predictability and control, we can find o...
085. Erotically Engineer Your Paid Creative Offering
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is invite you to consider how you might create an additional stream of income using the erotic skills already alive i...
084. Create It, Not In The Future, But Now
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to remind you of that big, juicy, audacious creative vision that is all your own. That desire commensurate with th...
083. Use Erotic Engineering To Create A Life Rooted In Your Desire
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erotic Engineering is a wild field of study and practice that uses the erotic as power to design a life rooted in desire. Inside this practice the des...
082. Professionalism Requires Our Lies, Poetry Requires Our Truth
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention behind this episode is to invite you to seed a public creative practice through, what we call in Seeda School, “weekly dispatches” fo...
081. On Bargaining Over The Price of Actualizing Your Desire
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creative actualization demands sacrifice. There’s a saying that goes something like this, “you can have whatever you want, and if you don’t have...
080. No One Wants Your Perfectionism But White Supremacy
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At first this episode was titled “There Is No Rigor In Perfection, There Is Rigor In Your Play”. In a recent episode of one of my favorite podcast...
079. A Love Song For Conjure Women Cosplaying As Corporate Baddies
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know that meme that’s going around saying “propaganda i'm not falling for”? Well the propaganda we’re not falling for is the discourse...
078. Working Harder is Unnecessary, Certainty Is An Illusion, Hold On To This Instead
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention behind recording this podcast episode is to ask: are we in a season of seeding or reaping? Are we clinging to the energy of survival mode...
077. Dropping the Master's Tools, Dreaming Beyond Institutional Support
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention behind recording this episode is to humbly invite us to consider what got us to our current reality might not get us to our wildest dream...
076. On Knowing When To Get on Your Zoom or Get in the Bed
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I am recording this episode for the push through artists who have worked so hard, for so long that they don’t even know what their max capacity is —...
075. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered LinkedIn When Affirmations Weren’t Enuf
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t need more affirmations. But perhaps, like many of us, you are desiring tools, skills and strategies for navigating the seasons where your ...
074. Your Favorite Black Feminist Is An Entrepreneur
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our favorite black feminist was most likely an entrepreneur because for many of our ancestors black feminist entrepreneurship was simply a synonym for...
073. 3 Ways to Engage with the Rigor of Ease in Creative Practice
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rigor doesn’t equal hard work and ease doesn’t equal work that is easy. Asking for help, refusing to resent our capacity, honoring the needs of ou...
072. The Fear of Being Witnessed Stemming From A Fear of Witnessing Ourselves
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to reflect, alongside you, on my own journey toward softening inside the sacred practice of bearing witness — bo...
071. My Nervous System Likes Receiving Money for Work that Isn’t Punishing
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to invite us to put some respect on our nervous system. We have done the journaling, we’ve cultivated all our em...
070. How to Stay Motivated When Ambition Has Left Your Body
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention inside this episode is to ground us inside the reality that we are constantly changing. Our motivations are changing. Our values might be...
069. Scale Your Impact Without Scaling Your Capacity Through the Power of a Framework
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You dream of serving folks through your process not your personhood. You are an artist, not an influencer. But your process can sometimes feel illegib...
068. I Sat Down To Script A Podcast And A Poem For The Fire Leaked Out
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My intention behind this episode is not only to advocate for the practice of weekly dispatches but to encourage you and empower you with resources to ...
067. Is It Burnout Or The Energetic Expense Of A Breakthrough?
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I’m inviting you into this question with me: “Is It Burnout Or The Energetic Expense Of A Spiritual Breakthrough?” Now let’s b...
066. Moving From Convincing Institutions to Convincing The People
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I want to make the case for breaking away from institutions and creating communal containers of healing instead. And because we’re a...
065. Who Is Perfectionism For? Channeling Audacious Visions Into 3 Phases of Creative Business Development
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So who is perfectionism for? What stops us from hitting publish or inviting folks into an offer? Are we waiting for the somatic safety, self-trust, or...
064. Becoming Your First Client: The Grief Work of Composting Past Selves and Desires
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I chose the path of tech and software engineering out of creative curiosity, yes. But on some level, if I’m being real, I also chose it because it w...
063. Calling Our Power Back to Us: All Stories Rooted in Independence Are Lies
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is no such thing as an independent artist. We judge ourselves for having needs constantly. The reality of interdependence may look different for...
062. Don’t Focus on Making the Offer Accessible to Everyone Else it Becomes Inaccessible to You
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk more about this in Thursday’s Worldbuilding Workshop, but you may have seen the quote going around “if it’s not free, it’s neither rad...
061. Design Your Creative Ecosystem: The 3 Nodes of Practice and Your Erotic Center
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is for our Libra eclipse moment, it’s especially for YOU if you’ve been wanting more balance and clarity inside your practice. If you...
060. Permission to Pivot: The Transition From 3 Offers Back to 1
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I want to talk about the permission I had to give myself to pivot before I could invite anyone else into the transition. Today I want to talk ab...
059. Offering the Wisdom and Skills from Your Journey of Transformation
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we talked about how the journey is the dream and the destination is the practice through the metaphor of teaching and learning. I want to pi...
058. The Journey is The Dream, The Destination is The Practice
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe you’ve been talking yourself out of taking a creative risk for months, maybe years just like I have. A life is something we create, too. Maybe...
057. 7 Ways to Establish and Protect a Pleasurable Creative Practice Amidst Life’s Possibilities and Responsibilities
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This isn’t an ableist episode full of executive function shame but it is an episode in honor of Virgo Season asking what are our systems, processes ...
056. Are “Enough Numbers”, Enough? Balancing Our Nervous System, Values and Business Growth
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk numbers. The “enough number” concept is looking at the expenses in your life and business and determining a revenue goal or baseline ...
055. The Psychology of Creative Practice and Belonging
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a heads up, if you’re listening to this on Monday, July 29th enrollment into the Treehouse closes tonight and it’s $67 bucks to join! The Treeh...
054. 9 Reasons We Need Your Weekly Dispatch Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I hope you’ll Discover your Weekly Dispatch with us this Thursday, July 25th at 12pm EST in the last live Worldbuilding Workshop I’ll be giving on...
053. Who Are You Outside of White Supremacy Culture?
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who are we outside of white supremacy culture? Perhaps the simple answer is healers, holders, stewards. Perhaps the simple answer is the people that r...
052. Releasing the Burden of Being Complicit In Our Own Suffering
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I too, have put more value in the things that hurt because suffering is familiar. I know her. I know suffering. And I have plenty of evidence that the...
051. Recovering from the Tyranny of Ambition and Detaching from Outcomes
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I almost titled this podcast “On Aligning Your Practice with Your Capacity and Surrendering to the Air”. Both work. A question for you: What would...
050. Manifesting Beyond Survival and Toward Safety
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m sure you’ve seen it and maybe even felt it, experienced it. Manifestation is everywhere. Folks are talking about it on TikTok, Instagram and I...
049. New Terms and Conditions with Ravon Ruffin Feliz
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently I had the absolute honor of being in conversation with Seeda School alumni, Ravon Ruffin Feliz. Ravon who goes by she/they is a cyber anthrop...
048. 31 Reflections at 31 on the 31st
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These are just some reflections I jotted down during my birthday week and writing retreat in Shenandoah Valley. As the podcast title suggests this was...
047. To Crave Certainty is to Crave a Lie
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The invitation of “safety as relation” (Mariame Kaba) is a huge one in a world that has taught us safety is the opposite of relation. A world that...
046. Standing On the Abundance Already Inside Your Creative Practice
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Only YOU can create the offer calling on your spirit. Some creatives will say, “if you don’t create your idea someone else will”. That’s bulls...
045. Will You Let Us Perceive You?
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"May our visibility be an offering of gratitude to those we dedicate our practice to. The ancestors, past selves, younger cousins, teachers and n...
044. Your Journey of Transformation
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fire of our surrender brought down the walls and created a clearing. We all have our own field guides to teach from inside the clearing we will tu...
043. Teach What You Want to Learn
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our breath is the new syllabus. Our survival is the new curriculum. But where is our classroom? This critical geography we must carve out to practice ...
042. Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a consistent theme I’m noticing on the other side of my season of surrender. When I’m not being particularly nice to myself I’ll notic...
041. Why Worldbuilding?: Permission to Actualize Audacious Desire
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I want to return to the Seeda School newsletter originally published on December 4th, 2023 titled, “What is Your Creative Offer?”, subti...
040. How to Breathe Fire, Watching Discipline Melt into Devotion
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m watching the sharp edges of the second hand turn into a feather here. Here in the space between the real and the infinite, feeling real infinite...
039. Reclaiming The Power of Our Belief, Faith, and Trust
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Okay so I’m making twice as much as I was making with much more control over my income but I still don't feel as secure as I felt with my salari...
038. Choose the Role You Can Sustain Not the Role You Think We Need
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of the “What should I do?” question, here are 3 questions I want to leave you with: Which role will you choose? What container will you...
037. The Grief Work of Composting Past Selves
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suddenly, my job no longer worked. I put in my resignation letter September 2020. Suddenly, my romantic relationship no longer worked. I ended it the ...
036. But…"I’m Scared": Being Unafraid Isn’t a Prerequisite for Transformation
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enrollment closes on January 29th at midnight! Enroll in the Seed A World Retreat Here: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Your creative de...
035. But…"I Don’t Want to Monetize": Public Practice Beyond Capitalism
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What irresistible portals are the people you dream of serving waiting on? Offers as containers that might bring the two worlds spinning away from each...
034. But…“I Don’t Have the Capacity”: Recovering from People Pleasing
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The number of things we have to unlearn is unquantifiable, but I know the one thing we must set fire to is continuing to allocate an ounce of our powe...
033. But…"I Don’t Know My Purpose": The Year of Childhood Curiosity
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In search of our mother’s gardens we found a path. Keeping that path “well-trodden” so others may find it too is our only assignment. What’s y...
032. Season of Surrender: Writing a Love Letter to Our Fear
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All that running, until 2020 when I finally ran out of steam. Unhealthy work habits and a total lack of boundaries kept me distracted for years. In th...
031. Discover Your Creative Offer: A Workshop Podcast
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are our tools, frameworks and creative offers for helping each other navigate this wide open expanse? Worldbuilding is my framework, the Seed A W...
030. Toni Morrison was in my dream yesterday...
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about the Retreat: https://www.seedaschool.com/program Read this week's newsletter: https://seedaschool.substack.com/p/refusing-colonia...
029. Our Mission, Vision and Values Keep Us Possible
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ See this week's newsletter for more links and footnotes: https://seedascho...
028. Overlapping Catastrophe Calls for Overlapping Creative Action
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Overlapping catastrophes like to flirt with your apathy, whispering into your ear with empty promises about the safety of solitude. The safety of sile...
027. Invitations From Inside Collective Grief and Study
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I want to call in all teachers, writers, artists and business owners to take a close look at what we’re “normalizing” in our practices. What cul...
026. Our Right to Release and Generate Income
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Monday morning at my favorite coffee shop and I’m mesmerized by the freedom I’m witnessing. A toddler is freestyle dancing to electronic in...
025. 3 Lessons from A Decade of Creative Practice
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like I said, mistakes? I can name plenty. There is no way to be in a generous practice of producing public facing projects without them. Some of these...
024. Your Desire Is More Powerful Than Your Fear
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healing from years of childhood trauma, where pleasure meant threat of punishment and desire meant danger. My Element X beckoned, “What if your desi...
023. When Life Hands You Bugs: An Invitation to Release
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This letter is dedicated with gratitude to the bug in my code last week. It appeared as I was building a project using React in order to introduce the...
022. Lavender Software Centers Our Body and Belonging
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happened? I was so focused on building the tools for belonging that I forgot to actually practice belonging. Call my family, show up for my frien...
021. Frameworks for Care-full Software?
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What new values and commitments do we want to seed the next generation of software inside of? How do we want to collectively tend to this soil? No, so...
020. Interdisciplinary Permission: Dancing > Fear
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Being an artist is a commitment to indeterminacy. It asks, “are you prepared for a life long practice of improvisation?” In many ways, the word as...
019. College Saved My Life: What's Up w/The Shit Talk?
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While under a tree older than my great grandparents providing the quiet grace of shade, a spider the size of the bread crumb from my morning pastry is...
018. Writing With the World: We're Writing More. Why?
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the summer I’ll continue gathering seed data, collaborating with computer kin, and thinking about why we’re all turning to writing at the sam...
017. It Comes in Waves: The Ceremony of Feeding the Black Interior
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are our collective ceremonies? I decided I didn’t want to disrespect the question by providing an answer. When searching for the “official la...
016. On Public Practice: What Are Our Collective Ceremonies?
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is about the practices that help us remember the world we need is the world we have. What came up is the realization that I am...
015. The Ecosystem of Creative Practice: What's Your Mother Tree?
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is about the ecosystem of creative practice, mycelial media stewardship, and it’s containers. When I think about the next de...
014. Every Body’s a Teacher Now: Education as New Media
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been thinking a lot about how our body is an interface for learning and creating alongside our ecosystems. In the Future Organisms workshop tha...
013. Suprise! They're Late: Black Feminism and The Whitewashing of AI Ethics
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Timnit Gebru is fired and Geoffrey Hinton left. Read Timnit's story here and read Geoffrey's story here then reflect on the contrast. I also i...
012. All That You Touch: JavaScript x Octavia Butler
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reflecting on the possibilities of JavaScript and how one might teach it, I returned to Octavia Butler, and in returning to Butler, I returned to cons...
011. Aspiring Software Engineer, Freelancer or Entrepreneur?
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are You an Aspiring Software Engineer, Freelancer or Entrepreneur? I want to invite you to join us for the upcoming Discovery Workshop where we will g...
010. Learn How to Build a Black Feminist Coding Project in One Month
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plant the seed of your curiosity in nutrient rich soil. I hope you’ll join me in this upcoming discovery workshop, Learn How to Build a Black Femini...
009. How Much Does A Dollar Cost?: The Gift of Worthiness, Boundaries for Burnout, and Permission to Play
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My biggest fear isn’t failure or Seeda School “not working” or “not meeting my needs” — the success of Seeda School is inevitable. I know ...
008. How Does Seeda School Code Coaching Work?
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I only have the capacity for 12 more learners who are curious about learning to code through a black feminist lens so please book a free consultation ...
007. 3 Affirmations for Self Compassion: Money Mindset, Recieving Love, and Perfectionism
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
(Loose) Transcript: 007. 3 Affirmations for Self Compassion Welcome to the Soft, Where? podcast where I talk about my journey toward finding softness ...
006. 5 Year Reflection and Projection (2017-2027): Multiple New York Moves, Job Transitions, and $350 Rent
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Soft, Where? is a weekly podcast and oral journal where I reflect on finding softness inside of software engineering. I invite you to reflect on the q...