Soft, Earthen Futures

In this episode of the Soft Earth and Futures podcast, host Daje introduces the six phases of world building—a foundational framework for creative entrepreneurs ready to build their businesses beyond Instagram's algorithm.

If you're tired of spinning your wheels on social media tactics that drain your soul, this episode offers a different path. Daje breaks down how to structure and grow your transformational offering in a way that honors your medicine, serves your community, and creates sustainable momentum that doesn't depend on constant visibility.

Learn why world building is the essential infrastructure for:
  • Clarifying the medicine you bring and the transformation you offer
  • Designing a business model that actually supports your life
  • Creating a relational environment where people want to inhabit
  • Building something that can hold your vision for years, not just launch cycles
This is the third episode in an impromptu mini-series on quiet quitting Instagram, exploring what it takes to phase out of platform dependence without your business falling apart. Daje shares practical wisdom on praxis over information, long-term vision over viral moments, and building foundations your future self will thank you for.

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Creators and Guests

Host
Daje Aloh
Founder of Storywork Studio
Host
Storywork Studio
An Institute of Visionary Praxis

What is Soft, Earthen Futures?

Formerly known as the Inner Circle Podcast, Soft, Earthen Futures is for creatives, visionaries, and worldbuilders who are imagining new possibilities on the Earth.

Hosted by Daje Aloh—writer, teacher, and story doula—this podcast explores what it means to stand at the threshold between what has been and what wants to emerge. It's about tending the in-between, listening to what the Earth is dreaming through us, and building those visions into form.

Soft Earthen Futures is a design philosophy that awakens life-affirming potential in us. It champions design process that is listening, intuitive, grounded in nature, and centered on the embodied human experience. Design that brings out the best of what humanity can become.

Through reflections, seasonal transmissions, and conversations with other visionaries, this podcast offers frameworks for regenerative entrepreneurship, soul-led creativity, and visionary practice.

Topics include:

How to Shift Reality and Futurewriting
Visionary Entrepreneurship and Worldbuilding
Astrology as Divination Practice and Developmental Process
Creative Process and Weavership
Seasonal Rhythms and Regenerative Time
The Creative Rites and Visionary Rites of Passage