What’s on fire?
Devastating fires, MLK’s dream, L.O.V.E., Leadership, Your Heart,
Our Future
Reflecting on…
What am I letting run me— Limitless, unconditional LOVE or false fear?
What my soul wants for your soul’s joy-fueled, whole life flourishing
What kind of power & leadership do we
want to run our global village and benefit generations to come?“You can’t fight fire with fire.”
Aware of…
Apocalyptic fires in California.
Ceasefire in Gaza.
Honoring MLK on the same day as the inauguration of man who became famous for a reality tv show phrase, “You’re fired!”
Toxic smoke from a chemical fire close to home (phone alerts to close all windows).
DEI denounced and fact-checkers fired amidst reports of “misinformation rapidly
spreading.”
The strange paradox of asking AI to verify if what I’m seeing is fake or AI.
A friend’s mother dying. Another friend’s first
baby shower.
Jack’s (client) heartbreak about not being part of a future with a team he developed (and they love
him, still call on him for advice), while also
knowing he’s truly meant to move on.
Kevin’s gut-punch-induced face on a zoom when he felt rug-pulled-out betrayed by his company.
My heart on fire for Jill (new client) starting to see how we really can liberate her out of a try harder, but then feel stuck, deflated pattern that was recycling, and absolutely rise & shine with a new kind of joy & prosperity.
These are embers in my heart today.
[Names + changed to honor confidentiality]
Let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe... a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
What’s happening in your heart?
What is a fire in YOUR belly in this potent new year; what’s smoldering on your personal plate, and your potential on planet earth at this time? Can you hear your wake up call?
What wants to be inaugurated and sworn in inside of you? Imagine a portal into your own inner authority…with a powerful new flame rising— for your own dream and fueled by champion support, with inspired friends in a new kind of MOVEMENT to redefine and revolutionize how we create success.
What if you can truly break free from the “trappings” of success we’ve been programmed in on many subtle, sneaky levels. To find our wings and dare to be animated anew from a very different source of power.
I want you to be waking up inspired and falling asleep grateful better than ever in 2025. Yes, amidst the noise in the news and inside our heads. That’s part of LOVE’s call, inviting us…
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there… The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. The door is round and open. Do not go back to sleep. - Rumi
Are you willing to let something break you out of the prisonality that seduces you into recycling patterns that don’t serve you anymore? It’s absolutely possible and it’s time.
What the world needs now is LOVE; Leaders for Our Vital Evolution*
What do YOU need?
The game-changing starts, not with more clever thinking, but with letting unconditional LOVE
pour into every crevasse of old pain and curve of new possibility, starting within your own heart.
Let’s liberate you from that seeker-achiever trying treadmill (that’s become more exhausting than energizing).
There is a new way forward.
First, we must re-source your fulfillment; fuel waking up to your genuine JOY, and sharing your real gifts.
From essence, not ego. Deeper than “growth mindset” or conscious leadership rhetoric —
a radical upgrade of your inner operating system and outer response-agility.
Then imagine a tipping point of us no longer willing to acquiesce. We become role-models of a new recipe of healthier, happier, sustainable success, ultimately magnetizing others to lean in to “I’ll have what she’s having” strength in numbers. Are you willing to at least pause, and discover a new breath? To not politely put up with secret suffering (for you or others). How might you be adapting to keep up with keeping up; whether that’s a slow simmer boiling frog of corporate good boy/girl culture or letting calls from your “on fire” future self just go to voicemail. Close your eyes, tune in—
Not romantic movie love, but the true power of L.O.V.E. - Limitless Omnipotent Vitality Emerging. Feel into that.
What does Higher Love really want for you?
Descartes, Daddies, and Deadlines
How did you get programmed?
What’s been driving you? What’s in the soup of inherited programming we never realized could be running us? There’s so much subconscious, unchallenged, culturally-fueled fear suppressing the L.O.V.E. that wants you/us to let it lead. In addition to our childhood daddy & mommy “not smart enough” or “unwanted” type stories (that lead to pleasing, defending, or a million other persona strategies), the MLA (Mastery of Leadership Arts) learning lab has taught us to see nine other layers of programming. Just two data points to ponder: “I think therefore I am” Descartes professed that animals were machines with no feelings, justifying heinously cruel experiments on dogs, dismissing their crying out in pain as “nothing different from a whining gear” of a clock. (source) Heralded as the father of modern rationalist thought, who mathematized philosophy, one could say heads started to turn toward believing in a perverse privilege as if it were solid fact—that our thinking minds made us superior to the rest of nature. How are aspects of that consciousness lurking in our “modern” ways- in business and societal norms- the good, the bad and the oogly? Take a moment to connect some dots in your world, in this week? The word “deadline” can be traced to an American Civil War prison, where a confederate general told the guards that if any Yankees crossed that line, shoot to kill. Of course, that’s not what you mean when you say deadline, but just ponder this etymology for the residue of old toxins in the “water” we’ve been drinking and swimming in. I’m sorry for these horrifying examples, yet more sensitive awareness about how we’ve been conditioned is a powerful way to liberate us out of repeating patterns— to proactively come back home to your true nature- your SACRED essence underneath all that scared programming. Did you catch that? We didn’t say the positive pep talk on top of, or instead of fear, did we?
We also get to hold it all with unconditional compassion and curiosity. How on earth did Descartes and that general get programmed? And lean into the real calling of let there be peace on earth, and let it begin inside of me.
What if your soul volunteered for this ride— exactly at this time, and with all of the conditioning you’ve tasted so far, to shape you into the incredibly effective embodiment of LOVE for the life and future you want and are meant to create?
You have a choice
to settle or say yes to this new invitation that allows abundance to flow as it’s truly meant to
in you and beyond. It’s not easy to do this alone.
Somewhere
ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged
in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made
all the difference.
- Robert Frost
Dear friends, do not let your inner fire be trumped by changing winds. We need your LOVE and the unique gifts you were born to bring. It’s my JOY and job to help you. :-)
With the intention to “empty myself to become an instrument”— I tuned into a deeper Wisdom and started typing:
Dearest,
The time has come for all good men and women to stop putting up with the b.s. and heartache you feel, and don’t really think you can change. That’s not true. You deserve better and the world deserves the better you. You are actually here to BE the change you want to see. Don’t let be a cliché. Don’t let anyone take that away from you. There is a honking horn that won’t let you be asleep to your true spirit. It may be faint, but there’s a lion’s roar wanting your attention.
What might whisper to you in those inner meetings in between the meetings on your calendar?
You have no idea how amazing you and your life can be.
You are not alone. You are not screwed up; you are waking up! You are so loved. You are LOVE. You are here to be badass, effective LOVE in action. If you are willing to let your Real Self out more, the flight of millions shall rise with you. Trust this. Have faith in the authentic impulse inside of you that has been covered up by years of conditioning from old wounds, stories and strategies. You are not here to be a cog in a system passed down from old rules to keep you small. You are here for a higher possibility. Do not waste this precious life. If not now, when?
What will you choose? To say yes to letting this higher LOVE love you and move you forward in new ways or cling to outdated, inherited success formulas that your mind fools you into thinking will keep you safe. You only need to be willing to be willing.
HOW do we actually do this?
Igniting your 3.0 Inspired Self can begin today.
If you are feeling bewildered or bothered or heartbroken or heart on fire optimism or all of the above - Welcome!
One of the “secrets to true sucess” [earned over the priviledge of working with bright leaders and complex human beings for 28 years] is to welcome every part of yourself and pause in a zone of “no problem” as the best way to solve anything. It makes no sense to the trying mind. Your real freedom comes from loving all of it and yet not letting the fear-driven parts drive. Especially the parts masquerading as enlightened positivity, but that’s a whole other can of worms for an advanced conversation. :-)
It’s a bizarre and beautiful alchemy process— what might seem like a problem at first is actually a portal to your real power, inspired passion, courage and clarity to propel you into the joyful life you are meant to lead.
One powerful tool (of many pattern-disrupting skills in the MLA playground) is a concept we call “First Thing”— which includes being able to choose what energy you are coming from as the root of all perceptions, choices, results. To keep this simple, just let yourself take three deep breaths and notice how you have a choice of where your attention goes and then where you give your authority. Let this be the A of a new ABC’s discovery to change the rest of your life in a direction that will open new doors on many levels. :-) Here’s a twelve-minute audio to begin to play with this practice.
“Uh-Oh” “OH” “Ooooh….”
insidious INFINITE Inspired
Wherever you are in your life, however you are feeling in your heart & mind & soul, please receive my LOVE for all of you, and all you wish for. Bows of gratitude for sharing this journey! Do not hesitate to reach out with any comments, questions, suggestions for how to serve what you need most now.
Let’s end with these inspired transmissions of LOVE, each in their own marvelous ways—
MLK on “Agape,” a form of Love at the core of our deepest hearts, required for us to walk across the bridges we now face.
When I first heard her emote "Wild horses couldn't drag me away" my heart burst. I felt all the illogical love pangs in my body. The original inspiration for this song came from Keith Richards not wanting to leave his newborn son to go on tour again. This also stirred how I felt during a drop everything else devotion to my beloved brother's cancer journey, his death, and my unexpected life-change move to California. A friend shared about a time when his work took him away from his adult son, who was in a very difficult patch. He'd drive 4.5 hours back and spend all day looking—asking, Have you seen him? Good God. Wild horses. What are “wild horses couldn’t…” embers in you?
May we all have so much compassion for how our hearts are pulled, what a responsible life asks of us, the longing, the looking, and the leaps we must take at times.
And may we find our way homeward in a new harmony within ourselves and with each other.
