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Are you hustling for the Master, or building for the Tribe?

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  Are you hustling for the Master, or building for the Tribe? https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-green-harvest-of-ujamaa--71040082 We’ve all been there—grinding 40+ hours a week for a machine that would replace us in a heartbeat. We call it "stability," but it feels a lot like a gilded cage. Today, on this Ujamaa day, we’re looking at the tension between individual survival and collective prosperity. What if the reason you feel "stuck" isn't a lack of money, but a buildup of individualism? What if the "game" you’re playing is rigged because you're trying to win it alone? In the story of The Baba , a master hustler had to walk away from everything he knew just to find the truth of Nation Building . Stop looking for a "miraculous job" and start looking for your Tribe . Call to Inaction: “A bundle of sticks cannot be broken, but one stick snaps in the wind.” Stop saying "I" when you should be saying "We." Stop trying...

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Daily Toast - Umoja "Let's open the lines"

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Grab your glass and join us. I had some problems with the stream but we pushed through this morning. via https://youtu.be/T5p56Qdxjkw

Daily Toast

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Peace FAM: Daily we gather aroung the "virtual community fire" known as the internet to lift our glasse to salute those who came before us. I decided that we needed to create a ritual where we lift up our personal Ancetors. My personal favorite part of libations has always been where we salute those ancestors that we rose from, and I feel that often we overlook them for the bigger names that we learn in our classes. I wanted to set a space and a time where we focused exclusively on our persoanl ancestors. In my studies I have learned that "hell (at least the closest thing we had to a hell) for an African was being forgotten." That is why I am diligent about making sure that we mention there names every morning. What started as me celebrating my ancestors turned into building up a community list, and group of people that have introduced the concept of Toasting into their lives.  Through this process which has been going on everyday for the last 17 months we have i...