Dream Impossible! with Unity Stoakes
Nelson Mandela said it best: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
Dream Impossible! is about sparking imagination, creativity and action. The goal is to inspire each other to develop positive solutions that make great impact.
The world needs more people working on big ideas, more creative solutions, and more collaboration to solve our hardest challenges. We need to leverage the exponential technologies available today to create a present-future as inspiring as our most impossible dreams.
Dream Impossible! is for actioneers, innovators, and friends.
A bit about Unity Stoakes
For the past few decades, I’ve been on a mission to solve big challenges that I hope will impact humanity on a global scale. By combining moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, exponential innovation, and collaborative communities, I believe what many may think is “impossible” is, in fact, possible.
I’m a serial entrepreneur, idea artist, and community builder at heart.
In 2011, I co-founded StartUp Health to organize, activate, and supercharge a global army of Health Transformers to achieve a family of interconnected Health Moonshots. Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of billions of people.
Today, StartUp Health has the world’s largest community of Health Transformers spanning 30+ countries across six continents. I’m proud that we have assembled a worldwide network of thousands innovators, leaders, and investors committed to reinventing the future of health. In the coming years, StartUp Health and its army of Health Transformers will continue to unite to achieve dozens of Health Moonshots, from eradicating Alzheimer's to curing Diabetes, to focusing on women’s and children’s health, and improving healthy lifespan for all.
For three decades, I’ve been a tech entrepreneur, co-founding OrganizedWisdom (world’s first digital doctors office) and helping build pioneering organizations like The Privacy Council, to one of the first interactive firms Middleberg Interactive, to web 1.0 trailblazers Webstakes.com/Promotions.com, which we took public on NASDAQ in 1999. I’ve been fortunate to learn from (and work with) many amazing innovators throughout my career and grateful I’ve gotten to be part of so many inspiring innovations in my career and life like helping launch one of the world’s first music streaming platforms in the nineties called Q-Radio (founded by Quincy Jones), or learning the art of storytelling from the late great Jerry Levin (CEO of TimeWarner) who was a partner and mentor for 15 years. Today, friends/mentors like Esther Dyson (who I’ve known for ~ 30 years!), continue to be a wellspring of constant inspiration on my Dream Impossible! journey.
Over the years, I’ve written for Forbes and TechCrunch and appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, NPR, and USA Today. I love sharing my ideas openly about what I call the ‘present-future’ — seemingly futuristic ideas that should and could be possible now! I also love being the publisher of StartUp Health Magazine, The Health Transformer Journal, and creator & co-host of StartUp Health NOW, a weekly web podcast.
A few of my interests include designing behavior change for good, traveling off the beaten path (often in my Bronco), learning about new cultures and people, spending time with elders and wisdomkeepers (especially people in their 80s, 90s and 100s when I get the chance), tasting great food, taking pictures, writing, estate sales, street art, invisible design, parks and gardens, forests, architecture, nature, bocce ball, Big Trees, and sauntering aimlessly. Most of all, I love adventuring and day-dreaming with my friends and family.
I grew up on a farm in Oxford, Iowa, went to Boston University, spent two decades grinding in NYC, worked in Texas for a few years, and currently live in Berkeley, CA.
More fun facts:
People often ask how I came to be named Unity. When I mention that my mom went into labor at a Bob Dylan concert and I lived on the Sunshine Farm, it all seems to make perfect sense. To me anyways.
I believe in being a faucet, not a drain, and in the power of simplicity, creativity and culture.
My occupation: Vision leader, Futurecaster, Health Transformer, ecosystem & community builder, experience creator, conceptual artist, student of infinity & investor in solutions.
My tombstone: revolutionary for good; helped billions of people live a healthier and happier life; beloved by family and friends
My political views: Dream Globally, Think Universally, Start Now
My religious views: The Golden Rule
My philosophy: Try? Hmmpf...Do or Do Not. There is No Try...
At the end of the day, I strive for the sum of my contributions to produce more positive energy than I consume.
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