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The Worldbuilders Way

 

A marketing membership holding black feminist business owners and worldbuilders accountable to growing, nurturing and selling to their audience every month. Why? Because that's how often them bills come.

Seed A Sales System Rooted In The Truth Of Your Desired Income

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 @ 12pm EST

Register for free to learn more about creating your own sales cycle and turning it into a creative practice aligned with your values. You’ll also learn more about The Worldbuilder’s Way membership and receive an invitation to join us if there’s alignment.

Seed A Sales System Rooted In The Truth Of Your Desired Income

 Join us inside this free workshop to learn more about...

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How to develop a sales system rooted in your desired income.

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A core identity shift black feminist worldbuilders make to call in their desired income.

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Uncover subconscious story lines that transform sales from a business activity we postpone to business activity we practice.

We reclaim our power when we approach sales as a sacred skill instead of a business practice we hold with shy shame or ignore all together.

"What if it is not an experiment, this creative life of refusal. This rarely institutionally-funded disloyal life of practice for a world as yet unnamable. This insistence on transformation when the bank account screams “conform.” What if this life as an independent experimental artist is not itself an independent experiment? What if it’s an interdependent ceremony?"

 

 — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "The God Of Every Day", published December 22nd, 2021 by Topical Cream. 

Photograph by Sufia Ikbal-Doucet.

For The Worldbuilders

 

Sangodare Wallace reminds us “Black feminism” and “Black feminist” are describing a politic, not a demographic. Seeda School focuses on supporting black feminist business owners who desire to be present, paid, powerhouses in alignment with their values. 

 

The Worldbuilder’s Way is for you if you desire the following outcomes…

Shift your creative practice from a hobby or work you offer for free to how you actualize a life beyond survival.

Increase sales for your digital, educational or service based offering.

Don’t have an offer yet? Sign up for the free Seed A World Discovery Workshop to learn more about the Seed A World Retreat, a 9-week retreat where you will learn how to create and launch an income generating worldbuilding offer.

Audit and align your capacity with a newsletter, podcast or weekly dispatch that nurtures your audience and builds trust ahead of and in between your offer launches.

Build and practice inside of a sales system that generates levels of income and ease commensurate with your audacious worldbuilding visions and desires.

Is it delusion or worldbuilding? The next time someone tells you to be “realistic”, ask them what reality they’re referring to. The one we’re creating or the one created for us?

“The grammar of black feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn’t happened yet but must. It is an attachment to a belief in what should be true, which impels us to realize that aspiration. It’s the power to imagine beyond current fact and to envision that which is not, but must be. It’s a politics of prefiguration that involves living the future now.”

 

— Tina Campt, “Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity.” Listening to Images, p. 17.

Pictured: Grada Kilomba in Conversation with Tina Campt

The Support You Can Expect

Inside The Worldbuilder's Way Membership

Monthly 1-Hour Workshops

1ST THURSDAYS 

 

Learn the identity shifts, spells and strategies supporting a sales cycle of growing, nurturing and selling to your audience. Sales goes from a business activity we postpone to a business activity we practice.

Monthly 1-Hour Accountability Call

3RD THURSDAYS 

 

Reflect on the revenue generating activities you challenged yourself to take audacious action on inspired by the workshop activity. Reflect on the sales challenge’s revenue result, nervous system invitations and engagement data.

The Worldbuilder’s Way to Creative Marketing Course

SEEDA SCHOOL LIBRARY

 

A 12-part workshop series with black feminist spells, strategies and seeds for creative marketing.

The Worldbuilder’s Way to Creative Marketing Workbook

SEEDA SCHOOL LIBRARY

 

A 12 chapter workbook and course companion with black feminist spells, strategies and seeds for creative marketing.

The Worldbuilder’s Way to Creative Marketing Meditations

SEEDA SCHOOL LIBRARY

 

A library of 12 guided, black feminist breathwork meditations for nervous system grounding and breathing through increasing your visibility and allowing others to witness you practicing in public.

Global Discord Community of Worldbuilders

1:1 + GROUP SUPPORT

 

Join a global community of worldbuilders developing, launching and selling creative offers through the framework of black feminism. Members inside The Worldbuilder's Way can direct message me or their peers texts and voice memos requesting feedback on sales strategies.

About Seeda School

Seeda School is located in Cykofa, a parallel universe suspended amongst the past and the future where cornrows are cryptography keys, data farms are data forests, the weaving loom is a computer and chain link fencing from demolished prisons is used as architectural membrane woven with plant life.

Seeda School is a practice space for black feminist worldbuilding, self-actualization and business development. Our mission is to make revolution irresistible through the framework of black feminist worldbuilding. Our vision is a generation of interlocking, abundantly resourced black feminist offers and businesses.

Black feminist business development resources liberatory, speculative practice. It’s how we build the worlds we need in the futures we desire. Black feminist business development is one of the ways we can practice inside those worlds today.

“You’ve got to make your own worlds. You’ve got to write yourself in.”

 

— Octavia E. Butler

"It’s been so incredibly powerful to see the way each prompt, each assignment, each framework, in such a short amount of time, brings the threads of my practice into harmony and makes it so the universe can clearly respond. I can’t even count the number epiphanies I’ve had since I’ve started working with you. Thank you."

Ravon Ruffin, Founder of Citation Studio

Solidarity Pricing

 

Solidarity pricing tiers and descriptions are borrowed from black feminist worldbuilder and Seeda School alumni nènè myriam konaté. If you're interested in The Worldbuilder's Way you might also be interested in their offering, The Clap Back Manifest(o).

Nurture

$111

Monthly Payment

Select the Nurture Tier if most of the following applies to you:

  • Your (embodied or relational) proximity to whiteness, your gender, your sexuality, your marital status, your citizenship, your health, and/or your level of education grant you structural advantages;
  • You, your family, or your partner own the home you live in;
  • You have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money;
  • You have access to family money and resources in times of need;
  • You work part time or are unemployed by choice (including unemployment due to full-time school in a degree-earning program).

By selecting this option you are nurturing this practice, paying it forward, and pouring into the honor tier.

Sustain

$97

Monthly Payment

Select the Sustain Tier if most of the following applies to you:

  • You face structural barriers due to your race, your gender, your sexuality, your marital status, your citizenship, your health, and/or your level of education;
  • You have stable income and/or you share living expenses with your family or your partner;
  • You can meet your basic needs (food, medication, housing, childcare, transportation, etc.);
  • You have access to health insurance and/or other benefits through your employer, your family, or your partner;
  • You are able to miss work either for sickness, emergencies, or leisure and are still able to pay your bills;
  • You are able to make regular payments towards your debt.

By selecting this option you are sustaining this practice.

Honor

$67

Monthly Payment

Select the Honor Tier if most of the following applies to you:

  • You are black and/or indigenous;
  • You have been forced to leave your native land;
  • You are disabled;
  • You face structural barriers due to your sexual or gender identity;
  • You are a survivor of sexual/domestic violence;
  • You are single and/or solely responsible for your living expenses;
  • You are a sex worker;
  • You have been denied work due to your incarceration history;
  • You are unemployed;
  • You have significant debt;
  • You are supporting (chosen) family;
  • You take risks to meet your basic needs (food, medication, housing, childcare, transportation, etc.).

By selecting this option you are honoring this practice and inviting the support of those who are resourcing this work alongside you.

It feels virtuous to say “I don’t dream of labor”, but what if we did? What if we created the most erotic job we could imagine and got to work?

“These scalar experiments and mobile laboratories are speculative projects that envision new modalities of relation and offer blueprints for unanticipated existence.”

 

— Saidiya Hartman, “Crawlspace Manifold” (February 12, 2023), published in Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging (October 3, 2023), pg.14

Meet Your Worldbuilding Coach

 

Hi, my name is Ayana Zaire Cotton and I'm happy we found eachother.

I help artists build businesses. I coach worldbuilders who are ready to actualize audacious projects rooted in desire. I support writers with holding their writing practices as non-negotiable ceremony. 

Inside Seeda School we remember, just as we experiment with many methods and techniques in our creative practice, we can experiment with many methods and techniques for attracting resources to support the worlds we're building.

What if we didn't have to wait on a brand deal, art institution, film production company, record label, publisher or university to say "yes" to our ideas in order to actualize them? What if the only "yes" we needed was our own and from the people the work is for?

I have over a decade of experience launching art projects and social sculptures that doubled as businesses while learning a ton along the way. Most of which I teach inside of Seeda School where we work together to discover and develop your creative offer, whether that's a newsletter, book or a course.

If you're done with being financially dependent on industry gatekeepers of the old world, want to create an income generating offer, have been away from your creative practice for a while and desire a creative homecoming or have an existing offer you want to scale into a business — the first step is always saying "yes". 

Let's work together on seeding a world with your "yes". 

Photograph by Stephen Miller. Custom workwear created by Ayana Zaire Cotton.

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“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.” 

 

 — Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic As Power" (1978)

FAQs

 

Question not covered below? Feel free to reach out at [email protected]!