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Stop Idolizing Hustle Culture And Do This Instead

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    Speaker | Executive Coach | Author
    Training leaders to articulate their truth into stories that influence.
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    A few years ago, a client came to me with a book she had written but could not bring herself to publish.

    She had everything: the career, the credibility, the story worth telling. But the fear of being judged for what was inside it felt bigger than anything she had survived before.

    We spent one session together, 90 minutes, and something shifted that she had been carrying for years.

    She published the book. It hit the international bestseller lists with 23 first-place rankings across five countries.

    What I have come to understand, after a decade of doing this work, is that most people who have lived through something significant carry it one of two ways.

    They either collapse into it — showing up as the person who survived rather than the person who can guide others through.

    Or they perform around it — staying impressive on the outside while the thing that actually needs to be said never quite makes it into the room.

    Neither of those is the same as inhabiting your story. Knowing how to hold the full weight of what you have lived through and put it out into the world as something that moves people… finally write the book, finally give the talk, finally show up as who you have already become.

    That is exactly what this work is for.

    As part of The Burning Ground launch, I created a small number of experiences for people who are ready to go further than the book alone. One of them is a 90-minute Story Clarity Intensive where we go into your story directly — find the through-line, name what it has been pointing at, and hand it back to you as something you can lead with.

    This pricing is only available through May 26.

    DM me the word THEBURN for the book and over $200 in free bonuses.

    If you are ready to go deeper into this work — whether that is for yourself, a team, or a community you lead — there are packages that include a live half-day Story Atlas® immersion and limited one-on-one access to me, starting from five or more books. These prices are not available after May 26. DM me the word TORCH and I will send you the details.

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    A few years ago, a client came to me with a book she had written but could not bring herself to publish.

She had everything: the career, the credibility, the story worth telling. But the fear of being judged for what was inside it felt bigger than anything she had survived before.

We spent one session together, 90 minutes, and something shifted that she had been carrying for years.

She published the book. It hit the international bestseller lists with 23 first-place rankings across five countries.

What I have come to understand, after a decade of doing this work, is that most people who have lived through something significant carry it one of two ways.

They either collapse into it — showing up as the person who survived rather than the person who can guide others through.

Or they perform around it — staying impressive on the outside while the thing that actually needs to be said never quite makes it into the room.

Neither of those is the same as inhabiting your story. Knowing how to hold the full weight of what you have lived through and put it out into the world as something that moves people… finally write the book, finally give the talk, finally show up as who you have already become.

That is exactly what this work is for.

As part of The Burning Ground launch, I created a small number of experiences for people who are ready to go further than the book alone. One of them is a 90-minute Story Clarity Intensive where we go into your story directly — find the through-line, name what it has been pointing at, and hand it back to you as something you can lead with.

This pricing is only available through May 26.

DM me the word THEBURN for the book and over $200 in free bonuses.

If you are ready to go deeper into this work — whether that is for yourself, a team, or a community you lead — there are packages that include a live half-day Story Atlas® immersion and limited one-on-one access to me, starting from five or more books. These prices are not available after May 26. DM me the word TORCH and I will send you the details.

    In 2022 I went to Egypt on a sacred journey with my mentor.

    One of the temples we visited was the temple of Sekhmet — the ancient Egyptian goddess of fire, transformation, and fierce feminine power… One of the oldest deities in history.

    Warriors prayed to her before battle. She was the one you called on when you needed the courage to face what you had been avoiding.

    When we reached her chamber, I placed my hands on her altar and closed my eyes.

    What happened next I have not shared until now.

    I felt a surge of energy coming up through my hands from the stone. Like the world stopped. And through time, space, and dimension, I could feel her fierceness running through my system, through my veins. I opened my eyes and found myself looking directly at my mentor, who raised her iPhone and took this photo.

    A photo that, to this day, is the clearest transmission of my expression when I am in my power.

    I spent thousands of dollars on a professional shoot for The Burning Ground. I chose this instead, because there is a fierceness in it that cannot be fabricated.

    The burning ground is not a place of destruction. It is a place of initiation. The fire is not your enemy — it is burning away what was never truly yours.

    11 days until May 26. After that, the pre-order bonuses and packages close.

    🔥 DM me the word THEBURN for the pre-order link and over $200 in free bonuses before May 26.

    If you want to go deeper into this work — whether that`s for yourself, a team, or a community you lead — there are packages that include a live half-day Story Atlas® immersion and limited one-on-one access to me, starting from 5 or more books. These do not exist after May 26.

    🔥 DM me the word TORCH and I will send you the info.

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    In 2022 I went to Egypt on a sacred journey with my mentor.

One of the temples we visited was the temple of Sekhmet — the ancient Egyptian goddess of fire, transformation, and fierce feminine power… One of the oldest deities in history. 

Warriors prayed to her before battle. She was the one you called on when you needed the courage to face what you had been avoiding.

When we reached her chamber, I placed my hands on her altar and closed my eyes.

What happened next I have not shared until now.

I felt a surge of energy coming up through my hands from the stone. Like the world stopped. And through time, space, and dimension, I could feel her fierceness running through my system, through my veins. I opened my eyes and found myself looking directly at my mentor, who raised her iPhone and took this photo.

A photo that, to this day, is the clearest transmission of my expression when I am in my power.

I spent thousands of dollars on a professional shoot for The Burning Ground. I chose this instead, because there is a fierceness in it that cannot be fabricated.

The burning ground is not a place of destruction. It is a place of initiation. The fire is not your enemy — it is burning away what was never truly yours.

11 days until May 26. After that, the pre-order bonuses and packages close.

🔥 DM me the word THEBURN for the pre-order link and over $200 in free bonuses before May 26.

If you want to go deeper into this work — whether that's for yourself, a team, or a community you lead — there are packages that include a live half-day Story Atlas® immersion and limited one-on-one access to me, starting from 5 or more books. These do not exist after May 26. 

🔥 DM me the word TORCH and I will send you the info.

    The first thing Neale Donald Walsch — author of Conversations with God, six New York Times bestsellers, Letters to a Young Seeker and over 40 books on spirituality — says when he walks into a church, synagogue, or mosque:

    “I’m here to tell you that God will never forgive you for anything.”

    He watches the front row cross their eyes…

    And then he explains.

    God never forgives because nothing you could ever do, think, or say could possibly injure, harm, or frustrate God in any way. God doesn’t have to forgive you. God understands.

    The level of evolution you’re at. The patterns you’re running. The two-year-old behavior that shows up when you’re scared or tired or not yet conscious enough to do it differently.

    Understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master.

    You don’t have to forgive the person who hurt you, nor do you have to approve of what they did or want it to continue. You just have to understand how a human being at that level of consciousness could have done that thing.

    And then - perhaps most importantly - extend that same understanding to yourself.

    Because if you spoke to 2,000 people today about love, and then walked offstage two minutes later and snapped at a stagehand (true story, he did that!), that’s not a reason to collapse in guilt. That’s just a human being doing what a human being does when they forget, for a moment, who they chose to be.

    Wake up... And choose again.

    🎧 The moment in this conversation where Neale shares what understanding actually looks like in a relationship with someone who genuinely hurt you… that part is worth the whole episode. Comment PODCAST and I’ll send it to you.

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    The first thing Neale Donald Walsch — author of Conversations with God, six New York Times bestsellers, Letters to a Young Seeker and over 40 books on spirituality — says when he walks into a church, synagogue, or mosque:

“I’m here to tell you that God will never forgive you for anything.”

He watches the front row cross their eyes…

And then he explains.

God never forgives because nothing you could ever do, think, or say could possibly injure, harm, or frustrate God in any way. God doesn’t have to forgive you. God understands.

The level of evolution you’re at. The patterns you’re running. The two-year-old behavior that shows up when you’re scared or tired or not yet conscious enough to do it differently.

Understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master.

You don’t have to forgive the person who hurt you, nor do you have to approve of what they did or want it to continue. You just have to understand how a human being at that level of consciousness could have done that thing.

And then - perhaps most importantly - extend that same understanding to yourself.

Because if you spoke to 2,000 people today about love, and then walked offstage two minutes later and snapped at a stagehand (true story, he did that!), that’s not a reason to collapse in guilt. That’s just a human being doing what a human being does when they forget, for a moment, who they chose to be.

Wake up... And choose again.

🎧 The moment in this conversation where Neale shares what understanding actually looks like in a relationship with someone who genuinely hurt you… that part is worth the whole episode. Comment PODCAST and I’ll send it to you.

    A client of mine, an executive in the middle of rewiring his nervous system toward more joy and calm, asked me a question recently that stopped me in my tracks:

    “How do I actually feel my emotions?”

    I almost answered too quickly. But I’ve been asked this by so many brilliant, self-aware, high-performing people that I’ve stopped treating it as a basic question. When I really think about it, it’s a question most people never get the answer to in a lifetime.

    The answer is three things.

    Sound. Breath. Movement.

    That’s it.

    ✨ Sound — what comes out of your body when you’re in the emotion authentically. Sighing, laughing, the whale sound when you’re grieving.

    ✨ Breath — short and shallow under stress, long and slow under rest.

    ✨ Movement — punching a pillow, dancing to a song that matches your sadness, curling into a ball on the floor when you need to.

    When I tell people this, I watch their face drop. Because that wasn’t actually the question. The real question underneath is:...

    Why won’t I?

    Most high performers don’t think they’re avoiding anything. They think they’re being productive, focused, disciplined. And sometimes they are, but there’s a tell.

    It’s the urgency to check your phone the moment a hard thought lands. The sudden need to reorganize your inbox when a feeling rises. The dramatic situation that keeps repeating in your life that you can’t quite explain. The way you go cold the moment intimacy gets real.

    The most useful question I know to interrupt this isn’t “what am I feeling?” — it’s “what would I feel right now if I didn’t reach for the thing?”

    That single pause is the doorway.

    Full transmission on Substack — link in bio.

    🔥 P.S. If you’ve been doing the inner work for years and still can’t figure out why you keep snapping, numbing, or going cold the moment something hard comes up — that’s the exact place The Burning Ground was written for. It’s the memoir of what happened when I finally stopped outrunning what I hadn’t felt, and what I found on the other side.

    Comment THEBURN and I’ll send you the pre-order link directly for over $200 in bonuses before M

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    A client of mine, an executive in the middle of rewiring his nervous system toward more joy and calm, asked me a question recently that stopped me in my tracks:

“How do I actually feel my emotions?”

I almost answered too quickly. But I’ve been asked this by so many brilliant, self-aware, high-performing people that I’ve stopped treating it as a basic question. When I really think about it, it’s a question most people never get the answer to in a lifetime.

The answer is three things. 

Sound. Breath. Movement.

That’s it.

✨ Sound — what comes out of your body when you’re in the emotion authentically. Sighing, laughing, the whale sound when you’re grieving.
 
✨ Breath — short and shallow under stress, long and slow under rest. 

✨ Movement — punching a pillow, dancing to a song that matches your sadness, curling into a ball on the floor when you need to.

When I tell people this, I watch their face drop. Because that wasn’t actually the question. The real question underneath is:...

Why won’t I?

Most high performers don’t think they’re avoiding anything. They think they’re being productive, focused, disciplined. And sometimes they are, but there’s a tell.

It’s the urgency to check your phone the moment a hard thought lands. The sudden need to reorganize your inbox when a feeling rises. The dramatic situation that keeps repeating in your life that you can’t quite explain. The way you go cold the moment intimacy gets real.

The most useful question I know to interrupt this isn’t “what am I feeling?” — it’s “what would I feel right now if I didn’t reach for the thing?”

That single pause is the doorway.

Full transmission on Substack — link in bio.

🔥 P.S. If you’ve been doing the inner work for years and still can’t figure out why you keep snapping, numbing, or going cold the moment something hard comes up — that’s the exact place The Burning Ground was written for. It’s the memoir of what happened when I finally stopped outrunning what I hadn’t felt, and what I found on the other side. 

Comment THEBURN and I’ll send you the pre-order link directly for over $200 in bonuses before M

    Today is the last day for bulk orders to count toward the national bestseller list — and I have been told I have a real shot at qualifying!!

    I have been watching names come in all week. Past clients. Students. Friends I have not spoken to in years. People I met once at an event who remembered me. Every single name has landed with me personally. You are not a number to me. You never were.

    If you have been meaning to order and have not yet, today is the day.

    It`s $25 — less than a brunch — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader`s companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

    And what it supports is bigger than the book itself. It is the distillation of a decade of work — nine months of sleeping in the homes of 70 strangers across 18 countries, and 200 conversations with people I had never met that led me to the greatest insight of my life: that your story is not a fixed truth about who you are. It is an imperfect map that marks the territory of your soul`s curriculum. And when you learn to read that map powerfully, everything in your life changes.

    Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

    (Single copies remain available through May 26 — today is specifically the last day for bulk orders to count toward the launch push.)

    p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

    Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

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    Today is the last day for bulk orders to count toward the national bestseller list — and I have been told I have a real shot at qualifying!!

I have been watching names come in all week. Past clients. Students. Friends I have not spoken to in years. People I met once at an event who remembered me. Every single name has landed with me personally. You are not a number to me. You never were.

If you have been meaning to order and have not yet, today is the day.

It's $25 — less than a brunch — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader's companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

And what it supports is bigger than the book itself. It is the distillation of a decade of work — nine months of sleeping in the homes of 70 strangers across 18 countries, and 200 conversations with people I had never met that led me to the greatest insight of my life: that your story is not a fixed truth about who you are. It is an imperfect map that marks the territory of your soul's curriculum. And when you learn to read that map powerfully, everything in your life changes.

Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

(Single copies remain available through May 26 — today is specifically the last day for bulk orders to count toward the launch push.)

p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

    I know you’ve heard from me a lot this week.

    And I’m going to keep showing up here every day until May 12 — not because I enjoy filling your feed, but because for the first time in my life I have created something I believe in so completely that I am willing to be uncomfortable to get it into the world.

    This is not about money. This is not about me needing work. I have clients. I have a thriving business. I am okay.

    This is about a message that I spent a decade living, nine months traveling across 18 countries to research, and ten years writing down — because I know it will help others. And I am not willing to let it quietly disappear because I was too proud to ask.

    So I am asking.

    If you have been meaning to order a copy of The Burning Ground and just haven’t gotten around to it — today is a great day. It’s $25 — less than a yoga class — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader’s companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

    Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

    p.s. If you have already ordered… thank you. Please share this with one person who you think needs it.

    p.p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

    Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

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    I know you’ve heard from me a lot this week.

And I’m going to keep showing up here every day until May 12 — not because I enjoy filling your feed, but because for the first time in my life I have created something I believe in so completely that I am willing to be uncomfortable to get it into the world.

This is not about money. This is not about me needing work. I have clients. I have a thriving business. I am okay.

This is about a message that I spent a decade living, nine months traveling across 18 countries to research, and ten years writing down — because I know it will help others. And I am not willing to let it quietly disappear because I was too proud to ask.

So I am asking.

If you have been meaning to order a copy of The Burning Ground and just haven’t gotten around to it — today is a great day. It’s $25 — less than a yoga class — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader’s companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

p.s. If you have already ordered… thank you. Please share this with one person who you think needs it.

p.p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

    Hi IG community! I need your help!

    I just found out I have a real shot at hitting a national bestseller list with The Burning Ground (😱) — and the cutoff that matters most is May 12. I need as many people as possible to order a copy before then!

    Will you order a copy today?

    It`s $25 — less than a dinner out — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader`s companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

    And what it supports is bigger than the book itself. Getting on that list opens doors — stages, media, platforms — that get this message to the people who need it most. The message that the story you have been telling about your life is not a cage, but a map. That the burning ground you have been standing on is not destruction… it is initiation.

    Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

    p.s. If you have already ordered — the most helpful thing you can do right now is share this with one person who needs it.

    p.p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

    Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

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    Hi IG community! I need your help!

I just found out I have a real shot at hitting a national bestseller list with The Burning Ground (😱) — and the cutoff that matters most is May 12. I need as many people as possible to order a copy before then!

Will you order a copy today?

It's $25 — less than a dinner out — and it comes with over $200 in free bonuses including a guided meditation, a reader's companion guide, and an e-book of the most powerful quotes from the book.

And what it supports is bigger than the book itself. Getting on that list opens doors — stages, media, platforms — that get this message to the people who need it most. The message that the story you have been telling about your life is not a cage, but a map. That the burning ground you have been standing on is not destruction… it is initiation.

Comment THEBURN to order your copy 🔥

p.s. If you have already ordered — the most helpful thing you can do right now is share this with one person who needs it.

p.p.s. If you want to order multiple copies — for clients, your team, or people navigating a major life change — DM me directly and I will send you a personal link to order. I have partnered with nonprofits that support women in recovery and reclaiming their lives — if you want the extra copies to go there, just let my team know and we will take care of everything.

Note: To count toward the bestseller list, books need to ship to a US address. If you are outside the US, think of a friend stateside you could send it to — or just DM me and we will figure it out together.

    Most people think their story is either their identity or their wound: something that defines them, or something they need to escape.

    After a decade of working with people through their own soul journeys — and after spending nine months in 2016 interviewing over 200 strangers across 18 countries about life, love, dreams, and what makes them feel most alive… I came to understand something different.

    Your story is neither your identity nor your wound.

    It is an imperfect map that marks the territory of your soul’s curriculum.

    It holds your beliefs, your memories, your fears, your patterns. And it keeps pointing you back, again and again, to the lessons you need to learn — the ones that, once learned, finally let you break the patterns of the past and step into who you are actually here to be.

    That is what the Story Atlas® framework is built on: not fixing your story nor rewriting it, but rather learning to read it, so it can show you where you are and where you are meant to go.

    In this video I share what that actually looks like.

    The Burning Ground is open for pre-order now through May 26.

    🔥 DM me the word THEBURN for the pre-order link and over $200 in free bonuses before May 26.

    If you want to go deeper into this work with a team or community you lead, there are packages available during this launch window that include a live half-day Story Atlas immersion and limited one-on-one access to me. This pricing is not available after May 26

    🔥 DM me the word TORCH and I will send you everything.

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    Most people think their story is either their identity or their wound: something that defines them, or something they need to escape.

After a decade of working with people through their own soul journeys — and after spending nine months in 2016 interviewing over 200 strangers across 18 countries about life, love, dreams, and what makes them feel most alive… I came to understand something different.

Your story is neither your identity nor your wound.

It is an imperfect map that marks the territory of your soul’s curriculum.

It holds your beliefs, your memories, your fears, your patterns. And it keeps pointing you back, again and again, to the lessons you need to learn — the ones that, once learned, finally let you break the patterns of the past and step into who you are actually here to be.

That is what the Story Atlas® framework is built on: not fixing your story nor rewriting it, but rather learning to read it, so it can show you where you are and where you are meant to go.

In this video I share what that actually looks like.

The Burning Ground is open for pre-order now through May 26.

🔥 DM me the word THEBURN for the pre-order link and over $200 in free bonuses before May 26.

If you want to go deeper into this work with a team or community you lead, there are packages available during this launch window that include a live half-day Story Atlas immersion and limited one-on-one access to me. This pricing is not available after May 26

🔥 DM me the word TORCH and I will send you everything.
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