Where Independents Thrive.

DayBalancer helps independents work within trusted networks that nourish life.

As creatives, service providers, skilled tradespeople, and licensed providers, we often don’t have the support systems that traditional employment provides. We seek steady income, benefits, professional development, and a built-in peer community, so we're helping independents create access to these.

We honor our whole selves while giving back to the ecosystems that sustain us. We work to increase self-awareness, build trusted relationships, choose compatible opportunities, and build systems that support sustainable livelihoods.

Cost: DayBalancer is free for all independents seeking to thrive together. Supporting members gain advanced features and help guide our direction.

How to join: DayBalancer grows through trust. Members join through someone who knows them, or bring someone they believe in.

Our promise: Achieve collective balance across personal, professional, and community wellbeing.

Team: Led by Jessie Upp and a cooperative team of advisors below, we’re removing local barriers to regenerative lifestyles by making mutual support networks easy to build at scale. We're building toward a worker-owned cooperative structure, where value circulates back to members. We're actively developing the pathway to member-ownership as we grow.

Recent milestones

  • 500+ active members building trusted networks committed to social or ecological outcomes

  • Hundreds of pages showcasing whole-person profiles, including freelancers, consultants, contractors, creative professionals, personal service providers, skilled tradespeople, and licensed providers

  • 200 professional connections facilitated through values-aligned matching

  • WBE certified woman-owned business

Advisory team