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Amanda Cassaday

Amanda Cassaday

Co-Founder of Engather, a gift economy platform building community resilience in the Hudson Valley; business strategist and consultant.

Jul 10, 2026

4:13
How do you think you build that? the infrastructure into the community in a way that sees, I assume, sees that tension and allows there to be, you know, I think some of these sensitivities come in as a gift economy grows and expands and like, The more of your personal economic activity that is happening within a gift economy, the more these questions maybe come up of like, am I going to be taken care of? To what extent can I trust into a paradigm that's not based on money, but is based on a culture of reciprocity, but not the tit for tat expectation?
4:57
Yeah, it's a very good question that we are learning along the way.
5:01
And At this point, because we've been doing this for about three and a half, four years, it has been a very slow and well-steeped process.
5:16
We love using the mycelial network as symbolism in the Hudson Valley, but it really does feel that way because it is this slowly brewing thing that feels like it's happening very much under the surface.
5:30
And it is all about relationship.
5:33
And I'm going to throw something out there that is potentially going to take us down another conversation.
5:40
But I don't think anything can be distilled beyond relationship.

29 MINS LATER

34:50
yeah

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