Feeding Hope

Chapter 4Big Ideas, Big Challenges

Big ideas rarely arrive quietly. They don't sneak in—they announce themselves. They disrupt routines. They unsettle whatever life you were living before. And then, almost without warning, they demand more of you than you expected to give. In the beginning, I didn't fully understand the size of the idea I had stepped into. I just knew something had sparked inside me, and it wasn't going away.

I first realized Goodr was bigger than a passing idea during the hackathon that birthed its earliest form. Up until that point, Goodr had lived mostly in conversations—talks with friends, late‐night musings, and scribbles in notebooks. But during the hackathon, something shifted. I remember drawing those crude wireframes, taking a pen to paper and sketching out what the app could be. I was coming up with a name, purchasing the domain, grabbing the social media handles, giving this thing a real identity for the first time. And with each step, I felt something grow.

Some of the people at the hackathon didn't want to join my team. The idea didn't make sense to them yet. And even before that event, I had spent almost a full year sounding the idea off anyone who would listen. Those early conversations were often met with confusion or lukewarm encouragement. But every time I returned to the concept, it felt bigger. Clearer. More alive.

The moment I bought the domain name—Goodr.co—I felt something shift in my spirit. It was the first tangible declaration that ...