The Impact of Following Your Intuition
Whether you join as an Activator or apply as a Venture, your Coralus journey starts with the intention to activate your power and potential by entering a community of other like-hearted individuals working together towards positive change. Following your intuition is foundational to the fabric of our being. What we mean by that is that we ask you to trust your gut as you participate: does it feel right? Does your contribution flow with ease?
An Intuitive Approach to Venture Selection
Our approach to voting for Ventures at Coralus is an example of following intuition. Rather than having a sole focus on the numbers (they are there too for back up), we ask you to choose based on your sense of the impact a venture could have by being in our communtiy and the company’s purpose in the world. Everyone gets an equal voice in voting, regardless of age or financial experience.
The process is different on the Venture side as well. In traditional models of funding, you apply, and you get a ‘you were successful or you weren’t’ buinary format response at the end. At Coralus, every venture applicant is given the chance to have an ask and those who are voting respond. We also encourage people to leave comments for applicants (amazing idea! suggestions for improving, clarifying, enhancing their approach and all kinds of useful thoughts). We also offer connections for them (open doors to influencers, potential customers, etc; opening up our networks as part of the application process).
In the last year, about 40% of the community turned up to vote and provided 941 comments, 263 ask responses and 1888 connections along the way for all 306 global Coralus Venture applicants. This disruption of typical top-down power is just one of the many ways we collectively bring forth a new world, together.
Impacts of Intuitive Selection
It can be incredibly challenging for businesses to find funding and meet revenue targets to stay afloat. Our regenerative capital and 0% interest loans have allowed several founders to turn down extractive funding and maintain majority ownership of their business so that they can continue leading with their own intuition. Many Coralus founders speak about being given the confidence to intuitively work on their own terms — even if that means their business model looks different than traditional scale and success stories.
Hear from Ami Bateman of Pleasant State on her unwavering desire to keep her business employee, customer, supplier and community owned:
Hear from Anong Beam from Beam Paints who talks more about having full ownership of her business so she can lead more intuitively:
Hear from Patrice Mousseau at Satya talking about the importance of finding true partners beyond just taking money:
Hear from Pam Fanjoy at Fanjoy Culinary & Wellness Centre who intuitively merges her identities as a chef and social worker and has shifted to a growth mindset focused around her life story:
Intuition in Indigenous Wisdom
When it comes to intuition, we have much to learn from Indigenous wisdom. To date, 9% of Coralus Venture founders we work with self-identify as Indigenous and continue to sustain their culture in various ways through their businesses.
Hear more from Mikaela Jade at Indigital who intuitively sustains her Indigenous culture through critical technologies.
“What we try to do on a day-to-day basis is make sure that all First Nation’s people can see our culture in these critical technologies because 9 out of 10 jobs now rely on some form of technology. And we feel that if we can get a place at the table to help shape some of these critical technologies moving forward; that if it works for First Nations people it’s actually going to work for everyone a lot better”.
