Hi Reader, On one of our recent daily gratitude calls, a member of our circle dropped this message in the chat... Many of us know that feeling. We grew up being told God was somewhere up there, watching, keeping score, waiting for us to finally get it right because we were born "sinners". It never really sat right with me.. and I now realize that it was a narrative that manipulated people throughout history to be "obedient" and submit to some very harmful people. This is the difference...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Two headlines found their way to me this month, which says a lot for someone who lives a mostly TV free life, and together they paint a vivid picture of where so many of us are standing right now. The first comes from the Census Bureau. More Americans applied to start a business in the first half of 2026 than in any first half on record, with more than three million applications filed by midyear. Most of these are one person businesses, someone taking a skill, an idea or a talent...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Before this week, I had never hosted an international retreat. I had attended retreats, led groups, facilitated transformation, and held space for people in many different ways, but producing and leading an international retreat was entirely new territory for me. I could have used my lack of experience as a reason to keep postponing the vision, but I trusted my ability to organize, lead, solve problems, and adjust when necessary. The only way to become experienced was to host the...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, There is a question worth asking ourselves because the answer can shed light on how we can serve and how we create impact and income from our gifts. In 2 Kings 4, a widow goes to Elisha under very real pressure. Her husband has died, debt remains, and a creditor is coming to take her two sons as payment. Her mind is naturally fixed on what she is about to lose, but Elisha redirects her attention with one question. “What do you have in your house?” Her first response is almost...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I was reflecting on myself and the people who I am in community with.. We know how to be productive. We know how to hit the goal, close the deal, deliver the result, and keep every plate spinning while everyone around us wonders how we do it all. Achievement has always been our standard so it can begin to feel like it comes naturally to us. We built an identity around proving our worth through output, and the more we accomplished, the more we tied our value to the next...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, I used to think complaining was venting. I thought I was letting go of whatever was bothering me, and there was real relief in it, especially the part where the people around me would agree, relate and validate my "problems". What I did not realize for a long time is that I was creating a self fulfilling prophecy. Every time I told the story of what was wrong, I was giving my attention to it again, reinforcing it, teaching my own life to keep producing more of it. The relief was...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, There’s a moment most of us know well, the one right before a new week starts, where dread starts creeping in ahead of schedule. We start running through all of our obligations, responsibilities and deadlines before they arrive. The inbox messages that need a response, the conversation(s) that need to be had, phone calls that need to be made, issues that need following up on that we've been avoiding. We sometimes unconciously envision and brace for a negative version of the week...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Every sentence we repeat becomes a belief. Every belief we repeat becomes an identity. Every identity we repeat becomes the reality we are currently experiencing. The word impeccable comes from the Latin for without sin, and applied to our speech that means something specific. Our word stays *without* harm against ourselves, no shame talk, no self attack dressed up as honesty. Our word stays *without* harm against another person, no gossip, no permanent verdict thrown onto someone...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, There is a hermetic law that has shaped so much of what we understand about growth: nature abhors a vacuum. It explains the way an empty space in our life never actually stays empty for long, because something always rushes in to fill whatever room we make available. Many of us spend years holding onto a jobs, relationships, an identity, or an old version of ourselves long after it has stopped serving who we are becoming. We were taught that letting go meant losing something,...
3 months ago • 1 min read