What if the most consequential political act you perform each week happens at the checkout line? Drawing on the history of consumer movements and the research of Erica Chenoweth, David makes the case that conscious consumption is an effective form of economic activism, and that we are closer to systemic change than we realize.

Fred Rogers, the gentlest man on television, was often very angry, according to the documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor. Drawing on Rogers's life and his own journey, David explores the difference between emotional reactivity and emotional energy channeled into change, and what it looks like to focus anger, grief, and even joy into the kind of quiet, revolutionary acts that change systems.

Every business decision touches seven stakeholders: supply chain, employees, customers, community, competitors, environment, and self. David walks leaders through the framework at the heart of Radical Business and Why We Buy, with practical examples of what it looks like to plant each seed inside an existing organization.

T he Third Place: those welcoming spaces that exist between home and work, where community happens. These spaces have always been part of the fabric of communal life, and where they thrive, communities thrive with them. Drawing on twenty-plus years of building La Terza Coffee and supporting independent shops across the Midwest, David shares how to empower your business to cultivate conversation, dialogue, and connection across backgrounds and perspectives.

David shares the story of La Terza's direct relationships with women coffee producers in Honduras, what those relationships have cost, what they have made possible, and why he believes knowing one producer personally is the single most transformative act available to a modern consumer.

The biggest obstacle to ethical buying is perfectionism. David offers a practical, grace-filled approach to conscious consumption that gets people unstuck from all-or-nothing thinking and into sustainable practices they can actually maintain.

For audiences open to it, David draws on his own journey of faith deconstruction and reconstruction to explore what spiritual traditions have always known about money, work, and their neighbor, and what they still have to offer those looking for an economic vision worth to believe in.