What if your daily spending could help heal the world?
Every morning, millions of dollars flow from ordinary people into companies that fund fossil fuels, exploit workers, privatize water, and destabilize democracy. Not because those people are bad. Because no one gave them a map.
This is the map.
Show Up for the Universe is a daily ritual — a living, breathing practice for anyone who has ever asked: what can I actually do? It answers that question with something more powerful than outrage: a daily habit of muscular, intentional action.
The Practice
Three times a day — morning, midday, and evening — this tool invites you to pause. To ask one question: Is my money building the world I believe in, or the one I'm afraid of?
It's not about perfection. It's about direction.
The ritual asks you to check a subscription, research an alternative, share something that matters, rest in the knowledge that your effort compounds. Small pivots, repeated daily, become the kind of change that moves history.
What's Inside
A daily checklist structured around three moments — morning intention, midday check-in, evening reckoning. Each item is tagged by type: Reflect. Vow. Act. Learn. Amplify. Log. You move through the day with a practice, not just a feeling.
A living reference guide across six categories of everyday life: Banking & Investing, Personal Care & Beauty, Food & Grocery, Household & Cleaning, Clothing & Fashion, and Tech & Electronics. For each category, you'll find:
Companies to avoid — with a plain-language reason why, because you deserve to know the story, not just the name
Companies to support — because the economy we're praying for already exists, and these businesses are building it
A notes field to capture what you discover, what you'll research tomorrow, and what you moved the needle on today.
Why This, Why Now
The era of passive resistance is over. We don't just unfollow. We defund.
We pull our deposits from banks that finance the Dakota Access Pipeline and put them in credit unions that finance communities. We stop buying soap from conglomerates linked to deforestation and start buying from companies like Dr. Bronner's, who have fought for fair wages and organic agriculture for decades. We trade fast fashion — built on garment workers earning pennies — for brands like Patagonia, who literally gave their company away to fight climate change.
This isn't sacrifice. This is sovereignty.
Every dollar you redirect is a vote for the world you want. Every ethical business you choose is a business that survives, grows, and hires. Every time you share what you've learned, you give someone else a map.
That is how movements move.
A Note on What This Is
This is not a perfect system. Some companies are complicated. Some ethical alternatives cost more. Some categories are harder to navigate than others. This ritual doesn't demand purity — it demands awareness, intention, and forward motion.
Start where you are. Move in the direction of your values. Come back tomorrow and do it again.
That's the whole practice. You asked what you could do to show up for yourself — so you can show up for the universe.
This is one answer. A daily one. A quiet, persistent, compounding one. Begin today.