PlanetWise.app May 2026 Newsletter

 

Building the world we want to live in.

May 1, 2026  

 

What World Are You Prepared For?

 

I have been following some of the smartest minds on the web for the last 15 years. Thinkers who spend their lives mapping where humanity is headed,and help us see our options clearly.

 

This past week Nate Hagens, PhD, released a video that stopped me cold, called 'Frankly 139.' He mapped every possible future across economy, power, geopolitics, and planetary limits. From hopeful to frightening. 

 

And here is my takeaway: We don't know which future we will get. So we have to learn how to live with uncertainties. Because every single possible future has one thing in common: the people who fare best are the ones who know how to feed themselves and their families under adverse conditions. Who know how to maintain and repair what they have. Who know how to generate or conserve their own energy. Who know how to manage their finances without depending on systems they can't control. People who know their neighbors. Who know how to take care of their bodies and their minds. In short, everything PlanetWise is designed to instill in its members.

 

The skills that lead to your self-reliance are truly priceless. And I designed PlanetWise so parents can share it with their children, or grandparents with their grandchildren, and they can all grow strong together.

 

The work we do each day - the small, unglamorous, deeply human work of building real skills, real community, and real resilience, is the key to our future. And PlanetWise can be used by everyone, regardless of age, education, wealth, or capacity.

 

Start learning now. Before an actual disaster changes everything.

 

Planetwise is an app that verifies what you already know, teaches you what you need to learn, creates resilience and community, brings you closer to your family, and prepares you for whatever happens next. The best insurance you will ever have is the knowledge, the skills, and the community you build today.

 

Some of you have known me for a long time. You have watched me think out loud. You have been generous with your time, your comments, your encouragement, and occasionally some very pointed disagreements. PlanetWise is the result of all of that. Every conversation, every argument, every shared worry about the future - I’ve distilled it into something Planetwise members can actually use. You are a huge part of this. And for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

 

So here is my Ask.

Try PlanetWise. Join me in this adventure. Take one small step forward and see what happens. Give me your honest feedback. I can take it. Share it with your friends. Spread the word!

 

Come see what a 49 out of 600 Bloom Index score looks like - because that is what I scored on my own platform, on my first try, after years of thinking I was pretty well prepared. Ha! Turns out nobody's perfect.

 

And if you find, in this no-spin zone, something you want - if you feel even a flicker of “this is the truth I have been looking for!” consider joining as a Founding Member. At $10 or $20 a month, you are not buying an app. You are investing in your own self-reliance and strength. You are becoming even more special to your family, your neighbors, and your community. This is the best twenty dollars you will ever spend.

 

And a top secret I'm telling for the first time? I am launching The PlanetWise Games inside the app, levels K - 12, so you can learn the 6 Pillars of Resilience by playing with your children or grandchildren. Let me know what you think. Your voice makes PlanetWise better in every way. 

 

The world we planned for no longer exists. Let's build one worth living in.

 

Join me!

With gratitude and great hope,

Monica 

Founder, PlanetWise, Launching May 1, 2026

Resilience Begins on the Inside

Emotional illiteracy is a resilience gap.

2 min read

Let’s get one thing straight. No one taught me adulting. Not even by example. My parents were too busy trying to reflect their generational ideal of perfection. They disciplined and cajoled me into behaving, into being invisible, into not being a burden. To perform as theatrically perfect as they were. To put my needs below theirs. To say “I’m fine” when I was falling apart inside.

 

In school, I was taught math, grammar, languages, and civic duty. Nothing about my interior life. I had feelings, but I could not name them, nor understand them, nor communicate them, much less deal with someone else’s feelings. I was invisible. Love was something I needed to chase. 

At home, I was taught that attraction, attachment, dependency and codependency was love. The skill part of love — showing up consistently, tolerating difference, repairing rupture, choosing love every day — nobody taught me that. I wasn’t taught how to love. I was taught how to need.  It took me decades to learn that love isn't what you feel. It's what you practice. 

Outside my home, love was defined by movies and books. The bliss, the tragedy, the beauty, the wreckage. But hardly ever the inner work - the sloshing through your pain and secrets to come out on the other side with eyes wide open and clearly able to identify what  was going on and what your most loving response could be.

I learned to be a fair witness to myself. Not a harsh critic, which had been my default growing up. Not a deluded defender - but an actual fair witness. That was the first step to loving myself. Because what we attract reflects how ready we are to meet ourselves. You can't receive what you haven't given yourself permission to have. The relationship that shapes every other relationship is the one you have with yourself.

I also learned that this process applies to all ages. The young, the middle-aged, the older, the elders. I'm still growing, I'm still learning, I'm still opening my heart and mind to what I don't yet know about myself. I just wish someone had warned me earlier: growing up and growing into yourself are two entirely different things. One is automatic. The other is the work of a lifetime — the most important project you'll ever take on, and one which will define who you are and what you do.

Because here's what nobody tells you: emotional illiteracy is a resilience gap.