Living in harmony with yourself is a true form of rebellion.
What comes after ambition is inner power.
Living in harmony with yourself is a true form of rebellion.
Jess came to me feeling misaligned. She hated the grind and wanted out. She'd lay awake at night, feeling heaviness in her chest. Her priorities needed to be better. She wanted to zoom back, consider all her options and recalibrate, but there was a big financial fear of making any work changes holding her back.
She'd visualize her ideal life with lots of nature - rugged mountains, oceans, and rivers. She loves to garden and walk to local restaurants. She craved sunshine, trees, bird watching, camping, and hiking. Hard to do when you live in the concrete jungle of Miami.
She wanted to explore the concept of unhustling, to become aware of the true trade-offs and make sure she doesn't live with regrets, developing self-awareness to live and lead with intention.
Jess had questions:
- What does the Universe want to move through me?
- Who do I want to work with?
- How can I make more money to pay off my credit card debt?
- How can I find more fulfilling work?
- How do I want to cultivate more flow in my life?
- How do I reallocate energy in different areas of my life?
- How do I reconnect with a sense of joy?
- When work is your only identity, how do I find meaning in other areas of my life?
- What does life want from you?
- How to get back to being human?
- How to make the workplace more human (Jess worked in HR.)
Jess had already tried counseling. She had taken Yale's Science of Well-Being course. She had taken a Harvard program on happiness. She read books. Watched podcasts. Participated in conferences.
Jess felt lost.
Misaligned.
Burnout.
Unfulfilled.
Joyless.
Seeking.
She needed clarity. She wanted a plan.
How to own her truth. How to live and lead with authenticity, integrity, and honesty. How to be brave. How to have more flow. How to have more autonomy. How to have more empathy. How to love herself more.
There was a lot of anxiety around money from her scarcity childhood. Guilt, unworthiness, perfectionism, fear of failure, fear of not being smart enough, fear of being rejected, financial fear, and unresolved childhood fears.
She had heard me speak at Wisdom2.0 and wanted to see if I could help.
"I've done this for 20 years and I'm not getting ahead." - she told me. "I need a different way."
We got to work—inner work. The real work. She did all the work. I was there to listen, shine light in the dark places, question when she didn't believe in herself, walk next to her and occasionally point the way. This is all we can do as human beings.
Practicing higher consciousness is how we get out of feeling stressed, misaligned, and at war with ourselves. Thousands of years of separation of what makes us whole put us at war. What we need is the reasoning part and the intuitive part to be working in unison.
Some people seek freedom through work. Some seek freedom around work. Others seek freedom from work. Some seek freedom from the boundaries they’ve put around themselves. Some seek more boundaries. When we are true to express our true selves and feelings, we become free.
Within six weeks, Jess moved to the Carolinas, where she purchased her dream house with a garden, a white picket fence, and a giant oak tree in the yard. Before moving, she married her boyfriend. Both of them stayed with their companies but got promotions. They adopted a puppy from the local shelter. Jess took time off work to have the benign tumor growing in her brain removed. She gardened, meditated, journaled, read, slept, and took time to heal and just to be. Upon returning to work, she made another career move. She was stoked: "The role allows me to shed what I don't love and focus primarily on what I do." Jess is healthy, glowing, and flourishing.
There's a different way.
Have the courage to be yourself. Choose being real over being liked. Choose soul over ego.
What comes after ambition is inner power.
If this resonates, book a free discovery call.