by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist™ © 2023 Theo Edmonds | All Rights Reserved The narrative surrounding startup failure maneuvers through a landscape marked by ambition, innovation, and an unforgiving market reality. At its core, the phenomenon of startup failure serves as a compelling mirror reflecting the entrepreneurial spirit colliding with…

The Stories We Tell Growing up in Appalachia in the 1970s, I was surrounded by the beauty of nature and the power of storytelling. Running through the hillsides around my grandparents’ tiny country store, I would imagine myself as a magical creature exploring a new world — finding the most extraordinary things in the…

By Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist™ © 2023 Theo Edmonds | All Rights Reserved The Problem of a Tattered Sail Imagine you are the captain of a ship. The ship rests at a bustling dock, its sail flapping in the wind, catching only parts of the breeze through tattered edges — threadbare echoes of past adventures. With…

by Theo Edmonds Culture Futurist™ | Creativity Strategist | Artist/Poet | Imaginator Academy | Social Brain Capital Builder | WHOAology™ April 11, 2023 While Kodak did not invent the first digital camera, it did develop one of the earliest models in 1975. Kodak continued playing around the edges of digital cameras throughout the…

by Theo Edmonds Culture Futurist™ | Creativity Strategist | Artist/Poet | Imaginator Academy | Social Brain Capital Builder | WHOAology™ Working together over the next decade, artists and scientists will ignite a new wave of transformational creativity in corporate America. …

Prefer to listen to the article instead of reading it? Just hit the red play button on the image below. by Theo Edmonds Culture Futurist™ | Creativity Strategist | Artist/Poet | Imaginator Academy | Social Brain Capital Builder | WHOAology™ June 1, 2023 ~ First Day of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month In the…

Written for the Homegoing Services of Jenny Edmonds by her son, Theo Alan. GRATITUDE EPIGRAPH: One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. ― John O’Donohue P.S. All of your intuitions are true. ― David Whyte, from FAREWELL LETTER Hers were the first eyes I…

by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist™ Epigraph: “What you can plan is too small for you to live.” — From David Whyte’s “What to Remember When Waking” She kept the color blue in her front left pocket. The diamonds on her right hand would not be able to find it there. …

A Poem by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist You don’t wait for revelation when you pass the frontier Desire is truth here. That fiery stardust inside you has pulled you a step beyond Into a beyond place where you use up everything in service to joy Beyond the old stories you wove…