Season 4, Ep. 14 - Revillaging: Rebuilding Community from the Rubble of Individualism with Matt Jorgensen
If you've been searching for "how to build community as an adult" or "feeling disconnected and lonely in modern life," this one's for you.
You'll learn:
Why the myth of separation, not just social media or capitalism, is the root of our collective crisis, and why its death is actually an initiation
How the Revillage Project is turning a gas station into a town square and what that experiment reveals about what post-individualist life can actually look like
The practice of asking "what's mine to do today?", and why it might be the most revolutionary (and grounding) question for anyone trying to contribute to a changing world
In this rich, wide-ranging conversation, Megan sits down with Matt Jorgensen, a community organizer, social entrepreneur, new dad, and co-founder of the Revillage Project in rural Sonoma County, to explore what it means to move from isolation to belonging in a culture built on individualism. They trace the hero's journey of humanity itself: the necessary individuation of modernity, and the homecoming that revillaging represents. Matt shares how converting an old gas station into a town square became a living experiment in shared culture, intergenerational connection, and place-based love, and why the energy we bring to the work matters as much as the work itself. If you're feeling the weight of the metacrisis but don't know where to start, this conversation offers both a bigger frame and a surprisingly simple practice.
Listen Now:
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/77ZpwcmjjUCDfUHPJP8DOG
Apple Podcasts -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-attention-is-being-harvested-heres-how-to-take-it-back/id1498731180?i=1000763179873
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Resources + Episodes Mentioned:
The Revillage Project(Matt's work in Sonoma County - town square, food hub, community cafe, Broken Theater youth program, Voices of the Valley documentary series, Museum of the Future)
Rob Hopkins - From What Is to What If / Transition Movement / How to Fall in Love with the Future
Adrienne Maree Brown - Pleasure Activism
Bayo Akomolafe - writing on the Western compulsion to act
Eros & Earth Podcast (referenced by Megan as her framing for following aliveness and intuition over strategic planning)
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