Come one, come all—even (and especially!) not-yet-Fusionists! This event will be open to the PUBLIC as a space for any one and everyone who's interested to get a taste of Nuclear Fusion Network—our vibes, our culture, and our mission in the world.

Here are the details...Anyone and everyone, network member or not, this event is open to whomever is interested in getting a taste of the kinds of Nuclear Fusion shenanigans that are commonly cultivated at our live gatherings. Share the date!

• Date:  Saturday, January 18th at 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
• (For Non-Members) Zoom Link:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87509728058?pwd=TN2v3YxXnON8EKarGd1EmTgaxpEeqY.1
• (For Members) Mighty Link:  https://nuclearfusionnetwork.com/events/nuclear-fusion-network-open-house

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​Hello, Fellow Fusionists!
It has been almost 3 months since we officially opened the doors to the network and it has been a whirlwind of a ride. Running a start-up is a massive challenge. Many days it is exciting and inspiring as our team swims in the possibilities. Other days, not going lie, are fucking hard. There are 1 million things to do, and though our team is growing, it’s still a lot for our small but mighty team. We question everyday decisions, wanting to be thoughtful in everything that we do. Sometimes we get it wrong and make mistakes. However, we are purpose-driven and believe wholeheartedly in the work.
Our intention at Nuclear Fusion is to sustainably grow our village, and yours, to provide more possible meaningful connections, both digital and in-person, for y'all. For us at Nuclear Fusion, it is not just about facilitating connections. There are a lot of apps and platforms that do that. Our purpose is to give life meaning, to cultivate a true sense of belonging that is essential to our well-being, and create ease in our ability to build community with folks who align with our culture and values.
Thank you for being on this journey with us. Everyday, we learn, we show up, we experiment, and strive to be our most fabulous, messy selves.
Check out a recap of everything that is going on, both within the network and the business.
Backend Business:

• This past month, some added some fabulous additions to our growing team of Fusioneers. Right now, we have 5 fantastic in-network moderators (Cami, Ashe, Lauren, Leika, and Elle) who truly are the backbone of our organization. Their role is to drive engagement, answer questions, offer support, and just being generous beacons. If you are interested in joining the team and taking a more active presence in the network, reach out to [email protected].
• Team member, Chris Daniels, has been working with Emma Pinead-Fortin a somatic-healing coach who is going to be offering a course called “Courageous Conversations”, set to release January 2025. We are in conversation with several other creative educators about offering courses and mini-workshops. We want to provide as many resources to our members to support them on their journey to cultivate truly meaningful connections.
• Finally, our team continues to be blessed with the incredible folks that have found their way to us. We have leads on investors, educators, and people asking to volunteer their services.

Network Announcements:

• Our network continues to grow and we are pumped to share with you all of the exciting developments are occurring and are on the horizon. We launched our new “Club Hub” Channel and a new space “Shelf Life”, our book club group. The chat is blowing up as fellow book enthusiasts are sharing their favorite recommendations. Our first selection for the club was “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Adrian Shirk which is "An exploration of American ideas of utopia through the lens of one millennial's quest to live a more communal life under late-stage capitalism.” There is a poll to pick our next book (which is all queer, fiction!) 
• We have several other Club groups on the horizon including a Gaming Group, a Witchy Club, an Outdoorsy Group, and A Neurodivergent Group.
• We currently have a total of 276 members! What we are most excited and proud about is that our level of retention and engagement are far above the average that Mighty Network (the platform that this network is hosted on) reports.
• Coming up we have our First Challenge - a seven day network challenge intended to familiarize members with the network and facilitate fusion connections. Our neurodivergent team LOVES a good challenge and we hope that you will too.

What's Coming Around the Corner:

• Our team has been deep in visioning jams. In these jams, we have finalized our priorities for the end of the year and our focus for 2025. We have also begun to finalize the Fusion Methodology—the flagship program of Nuclear Fusion. The Methodology is a step-by-step process, complete with worksheets, workshops, and other resources, to assist folks in successfully Fusing. We are looking forward to sharing this with all of you. Stay tuned for the end of 2024/beginning of 2025 for the release.  

Thank you all for your continued support and being on this journey with us. We are so excited for all that is in store.
Love you all so much,
Nuclear Fusion Team

In October of 2022, Jessica of Remodeled Love posts a mockup of an idea she had for an app that would help folks find, build, & sustain chosen family & the proverbial village many of us are seeking and desperately need.

The post gets a lot of traction and everyone says, “You must follow through with this,” but Jessica wonders if she’s capable of something this big.

In December of 2022 Holly Marr sends an email asking if she could use a virtual assistant and Jessica hires her on the spot.

In June of 2023 they launch a Kickstarter to fund Phases 1 & 2 of @nuclearfusionapp project, & the project funds in less than 60 days.

In August of 2023 Jessica puts out a call for a software dev consultant to help vet an app-building company she had hired. Something felt off to her. She interviews several folks but ultimately falls in creative love with Rishi Tirumalai, who thoroughly vets the company and returns to Jes with one consolation: “You should build your own team.”

In September of 2023 Jessica professionally reunites with her best friend and former business partner Chris Daniels after a deep rupture & downfall of another shared project in 2017. Chris comes on as COO, mostly volunteering their time.

The team then puts out a call for UI/UX designers, and Pia Malika slides into their DMs a month later.

Pia takes the team for the next 8 months through Phase 2 of the beta build.

The team is made up of entirely queer, neurodivergent social & digital engineers, determined to create a new world & a new business model. The chemistry between them is 🔥.

Beta Phase 2 comes to an end in May 2024 as the Kickstarter money fades, & the team pivots to Alpha on fully volunteered time—determined to get a product out into the world to help folks find connection, joy, & ease in their lives.

Mycah of @merkabatech enters as Productivity Manager in July.

Though the reality of an under-resourced startup is stressful & chaotic, finally, on 9/23/24 at 11:23pm PST, the team opens the digital doors to Nuclear Fusion Network.

You can be one of our early Pioneers bringing this dream to life across the globe by joining our Network today.

Blog By:
Christopher Daniels,
Nuclear Fusion App
COO

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In 2018, A Shamanic Astrologer Once Told me that it was Soul’s Purpose to Redefine How Organizations Operate.

No pressure … also that statement sounds a little egoistic and self-involved. I remember hearing that and thinking, “that sounds cool, I like organizations”. I thought that soul purpose related to theatre and the nonprofit community theatre I served as Executive Director. I began pouring energy to explore how we could do things differently and dismantle conventional theatre practices; questioning why they existed and not accepting the answer, “because that is how they are done”.

Fast forward to 2023, during a sunny day in Tahoe City, my BFF and fellow fusionist Jes Daylover, and I are tripping out in the backyard of this beautiful cabin and she asks me to join the Nuclear Fusion team. Now for those of you unaware, Jes and I have a lot of institutional baggage in our illustrious almost 20 year friendship. We have started and lost interest in a million creative projects (thank you ADHD), we have formed and dissolved several businesses, and most notably our personal and professional relationship exploded in 2017; a rupture that neither one of us thought possible to repair.

The rupture occurred over the Utility Players, Reno’s #1 Comedy Troupe; a troupe that Jes founded and led since 2009 and I troupe that moved across the country to join. Years of toxic culture, conflict avoidance, lack of accountability, and low emotional intelligence on the part of everyone involved, led to a pretty dramatic and devastating breakup. It took years of repair to rebuild some semblance of trust and even then that trust was delicate and fragile. We collaborated only a couple of times over the years, instead choosing to prioritize our personal friendship.

So on that sunny day in 2023, when Jes asked me to be a part of Nuclear Fusion, it felt like coming home; it felt right. And then fear and doubt began to creep into me. Were we just repeating the same mistakes from our past? We both had grown and healed so much from that fateful day and yet the fear was there; like some flamboyant Gollum guffawing in the corner. And then Jes said something that changed everything, “I want to run this business differently; I want to give us a chance to do things differently.”

She told me she was inspired by entrepreneurs she had seen on Tiktok that prioritized equity and collective decision-making. She mentioned that her Chief Engineer, Rishi, recommended this book “Reinventing Organizations” and that she wanted to model Nuclear Fusion after an evolutionary organization (more on that later). What Jes didn’t know is (A) my shamanic astrology reading (B) that since that reading, I had been exploring non-hierarchical models of leadership and organizing in the nonprofit I currently led.

​Suddenly, I saw it all. The threads that tied us, that everything that had happened to me, had happened to us, was leading to this moment. I saw it all so clearly … or maybe it was the LSD. Regardless, I said yes, purchased the book, and began the process of fulfilling my destiny (or some shit like that).