Every click, comment, dwell time, and reaction trains the AIs in your life. Algorithms curate what you see, amplify cognitive biases, and shape what you think (unsettling, right?) Most of us are blissfully unaware - we lack foundational knowledge on how AIs work, the extent to which they manipulate us, and their role in shaping society.

Over four weeks, your group will read Raising AI by De Kai and explore cognitive bias, information disorder, and AI ethics. Each week includes a short reflective project—identifying your own biases, tracing neginformation, auditing your AI use, and imagining daily life 20 years from now. Your final deliverable: a personal AI ethics statement and behavior audit documenting what you’re consciously teaching the machines you interact with every day.

Employment instability, AI automation, and economic uncertainty make entrepreneurial skills essential insurance. You either never begin—paralyzed by overwhelm—or you waste enormous time and money building something nobody wants. You spend months building products before talking to a single potential customer.

Learn the Problem-First Framework: why most businesses fail (solving problems nobody has). Identify real problems people will pay to solve. Conduct customer discovery interviews without “selling.” Design and execute low-cost market validation experiments. Build a Minimum Viable Offer that tests assumptions quickly.

Every STAND course requires video, but most mentors face overwhelming barriers: camera anxiety preventing authentic delivery, hundreds of tool options creating decision paralysis, uncertainty about whether AI video generation serves or undermines teaching, and perfectionism preventing them from shipping content members need. 

This program cuts through the noise with curated toolkit recommendations, systematic workflows for both traditional and AI-assisted video creation, and practical confidence-building that gets you creating and shipping videos that genuinely serve members—whether you love being on camera, prefer AI avatars, or want to combine both approaches strategically.

Americans face an epidemic of modifiable health risks—smoking, excessive drinking, overeating, screen addiction—yet most individual change attempts fail within weeks. Research shows accessible, evidence-backed support groups offer cost-effective solutions, but they’re under-promoted in profit-driven systems.

Understand the science of why individual approaches often fail and group processes succeed. Critically evaluate behavior change products. Find and assess support groups. Recognize cultural messaging that normalizes unhealthy behaviors.

You did everything "right." Got the degree, worked hard, hustled.

But somehow you're drowning in debt, priced out of housing, and watching retirement savings timelines that assume you started at 22 with no student loans. Meanwhile, influencers sell courses about passive income and your parents ask when you're buying a house—with what down payment?

STAND's structured 4-week workshops prove that peer-led learning creates transformation—but only if trained facilitators exist to lead them. This isn't generic facilitation theory. You'll practice leading actual STAND workshops using our complete materials. Become a confident STAND workshop facilitator through practice, feedback, and community support