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# Empowerment cannot depend on permanent purchase. A...
> Empowerment cannot depend on permanent purchase. A course, platform, leader, or community should leave a participant with portable knowledge, owned artifacts, repeatable methods, and the capacity to continue when access to the original provider ends.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Democratizing Leadership Through Disruption and Community - Workbook|Democratizing Leadership Through Disruption and Community]]
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“Empowerment cannot depend on permanent purchase. A course, platform, leader, or community should leave a participant with portable knowledge, owned artifacts, repeatable methods, and the capacity to continue when access to the original provider ends.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-empowerment-cannot-depend-original-provider-ends
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