Julie Wilder is a seasoned social entrepreneur, community advocate & activist with a focus on creating sustainable & positive social, economic and environmental change. Since 2007, Ms Wilder has produced and hosted an award winning talk show: Front Porch Radio, Conversations for the Common Good, on WPRK 91.5fm. As co-founder and former co-owner of Dandelion Communitea Cafe, her focus on cultivating authentic community helped birth the now thriving localist movement throughout Central Florida, in part as co-founder the OurLando movement. She is also a mother, writer, graphic designer, amateur photographer, artist, folk doula and hobby herbalist.
Originally posted on the Spiral Circle Bookstore blog here. Dearest Community, Spiral Circle has been a consciousness raising bookstore for nearly fifty years. One of the central questions folks come in here looking to answer is “Who am I?” We all have multiple identities: gender, class, race, age, ability that make us who we are, … More Context is key to Conscious Community
“The workers here are getting less than half a dollar a day.” – from the documentary film, Black Gold As the story of Starbucks manager Holly Hylton racial discrimination against two black men went viral this week, outrage followed and Starbucks announced it would close for a day of implicit bias training, which sounds like … More Starbucks & Social Justice
The New Moon on February 15, 2018 at 4:05 pm EST marks the official Chinese Lunar New Year and the beginning of the year of the Earth Dog. In this wisdom tradition, a Dog year is a time of fairness, equality and justice while the element of Earth lends needed stability. A welcome shift away … More Black Panther, the Big Bad Wolf and Black Lives Matter
Real Simple, a national magazine, is jumping on the Side Hustle train with their article “8 Ways to Earn Money in Your Free Time” in the September 2017 edition, on newsstands now. My humble little side project, Spiral Spectrum, got me an interview and I’m tickled to be quoted throughout. Here are some excerpts: Read … More “Real Simple” Magazine features my “Spiral Spectrum” Etsy-empowered Side Hustle
Friends! Many of you know that I started my entrepreneurial life as a 26-year-old co-founder of the beloved Dandelion Communitea Cafe. This led me down the localist loving path as co-founder of Ourlando, the original Local First movement in Central Florida, and host of Front Porch Radio, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary. While it was … More Join me for a Maker Side Hustle Workshop at East End Market
I wrote this essay in the days following the Pulse Tragedy, which struck the heart of my community a year ago. I was unable to post it until a year had passed, on the heels of the attack in London. It was just too soon. Bloody Sunday. Shout the headlines. Blood Donors. Snake around the … More A Pulse Epilogue
Chris Guillebeau is one of the few people I actually follow in the business world. I admire his authentic style, action orientation and the way he gathers people together. He just launched this new podcast on side hustles which swept to the top of the charts, debuting at #2 on iTunes, beating This American … More Spiral Spectrum featured in “Side Hustle School”
I wish I had access to an interview like this when I became a mom, six years into being an entrepreneur. While there are lots of good gems in here for everyone, our entrepreneurial mama’s in particular deserve a listen! Tune in to the whole episode right here for insights into disrupting power (because that’s … More This “Mompreneur” is featured on “Dear Rockstar”
I’ve declared 2017 the Year of Beautiful Resistance. Here are some of my personal favorite tools and techniques to inform, inspire and act – with a emphasis on what business owners or those in leadership can do. What Works? Building the New Paradigm Subscribe to my two favorite publications, Conscious Company & Yes! Magazine. When that dark pall fell across the … More 2017 is the Year of “Beautiful Resistance”
Now is the time to take a STRONG STAND ON THE SIDE OF LOVE and I am incredibly PROUD that the majority of our local & independent business community are already on it. Here are three ways you can stand in SOLIDARITY with our LGBTQ community: Restaurant Owners: Let’s start a LOVE salad culinary trend in Orlando (and … More Love Served Here: A Call to Orlando Business Owners
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