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About reGEN

reGEN Impact Media is an Indigenous-led social innovation company developing human development infrastructure and intentional, matriarchal-led technology for regenerative leadership and human flourishing.

Rooted in Indigenous values of relationality, reciprocity, and care, we weave transformational practice, personalized technology, regenerative storytelling, and shared experiences to help people remember all of who they are, strengthen belief, and align how they live, lead, and create with what matters most.

We exist because the stories, systems, and technologies surrounding us shape how we think, feel, relate, and imagine what is possible. Yet much of our digital world experience has been designed to capture attention, rather than cultivate alignment, wellbeing, and possibilities-fuelled human potential.

Through our body of work in Transformation, by Design developed over 25 years, reGEN curates and stewards the conditions for transformation to become more intentional, embodied, relational, and scalable.

Let's start with a definition of regenerative media.

Regenerative media is future-facing, possibility-expanding storytelling designed to nourish minds, shift narratives and activate meaningful change. Accessible, intentional, transformative, and participatory, it recognizes that the pathway to a more regenerative future begins within.

We are reimagining media as a self-sustaining ecosystem where audiences invest in what they value, influence how brands contribute and help shape what comes next. Storytellers and creators retain ownership, communities share in the value created, and our collective attention moves toward the future we want more of.

Because lasting transformation requires more than a moment of inspiration, each story becomes an experience people can enter, practise and carry forward. Over time, our interconnected stories, gatherings, journeys and tools form a living world designed to help human potential take root and flourish. We call this The Story of Us: Unfolding.

Read reGEN's Impact Narrative Summary

I was raised in a family where stories shaped our values and beliefs. I also grew up a musician and athlete. Discipline, practice, and rhythm were my teachers. You can’t fake mastery; you build it through repetition and reflection. Those same principles now guide my life’s work in transformation.

After two decades working with women on growth and leadership, I learned what truly moves us forward: steady practice, grounded focus, and a supportive circle of accountability. Transformation isn’t a one-time event; it’s a lifestyle. Yet the systems around us - especially media - have trained us toward distraction over focus, consumption over nourishment.

Read our 1-Page Impact Narrative Summary here.

Our Matriarchal Matrix Methodology

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Our 10-year Moonshot vision

By 2035, there is now the first true generation of media-healer storytellers. 36 Regenerative Storytellers' work, visions, and voices have had the opportunity to develop and pioneer new landscapes of media storytelling in an ecosystem of support, abundance, and deep community of connection.

The films, stories, and impact-first content from these Regenerative Storytellers, as well as of our NextGEN filmmakers, have reached a broad and deep cross-section of audiences across North America and the globe. These stories have challenged, inspired, and blown open minds, healed hearts, reconnected to their spirit, and, as a result, individuals and communities of all kinds have become more unified and more whole.

reGEN media has consistently delivered invigorating and nourishing audience experiences with inspirational, interactive, and inclusively innovative interactions through our global streaming platform. We have become to storytelling what the NFL has become for sport.

In addition to the progressive philanthropic dollars supporting Regenerative Storytellers and Filmmakers, catalytic capital, impact investors, and purposeful brands with advertising dollars have stepped in to take their place in the reGEN ecosystem, ushering in a next-wave of impact investing, advertising, and progressive sponsorship, driving the reach and amplification of our storytellers and media projects.

reGEN's model of relational filmmaking, NextGEN training programs, and decentralized hub-and-spoke production are recognized widely within the international media landscape, and reGEN is partnering with academic universities and industry associations to bring this promising sector to life beyond the reaches of just this company. At this point, reGEN is in the early stages of formalizing its NextGEN training into its own accredited academic institution with the ability to train younger filmmakers in a multi-year program, as well as more advanced filmmakers through shorter continued learning programs and retreats.

reGEN was named a Top 25 Women in Tech by Toast & Betakit

Read the full announcement here.

Podcasts & Keynotes

https://open.spotify.com/show/74fWTFzx20HFG3MbTRjRaK

CHARLENE SANJENKO ON THE IMPACT INVESTING PODCAST

CHARLENE SANJENKO ON THE FINANCE CAFE PODCAST

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