This morning I opened my email inbox and read this passage from one of the handful of newsletters I actually read from the genius Pilar Esko. In a passage she said:

“I believe the work you're here to do is full-spectrum, vast, multidimensional, and complex—like you. And you just happen to be so privileged to be alive in a time where it's not only safe to do it but to be wildly well compensated for it.”

This hit me.

If you pulled back the curtain of my career and lifestyle from the past 7 years, on the surface a stranger would ask “So, what exactly do you do?”

And when people ask me these days I simply say “I bring value to people and places via my vast set of skills.”

The important thing about the way I’m responding to this is that I feel really good about it. It lands with authenticity for me and the way I move through the world.

I just don’t care anymore what it looks like. I care what it feels like and that it actually supports me, my family and my bigger visions.

What I see now is a world in which you can be paid to be yourself…. but trust me I don’t mean in an instagrammable, constantly branding yourself, take pictures all the time kind of way….

I mean creating your skills from the inside out and being somewhat of a spiritual warrior around them.

These skills absolutely must come from a place of deep persistence and knowing within in order for them to be sustained and support you in a myriad of ways.

When I started my first business 7 years ago, I called it a retreat business. I was out in the world running overnight camping and wellness retreats in varying duration. But I was also naturally guiding and mentoring people along the way.

I would also stay up late at night and research economics and money and obsess over gathering women together to talk about these topics around the campfire. But I never wanted to be in spaces where that bro approach to finance and mechanics existed.

I loved personal development but I also loved long, deeply saddening poetry and prose and books that take you into the underworld of self.

Healing is a byproduct of being in my space yet I would never call myself a healer, there are too many parts of me that want to be adding gusto and big energy to my life.

Do you relate? Being a multihyphhante human isn’t something distracted people do, it’s actually what deeply connected, spiritual, motivated and in tune people do.

What I wished I would have known back then is to stop wasting so much time trying to decide what it is I do and how I do it and instead focus on my unique value proposition to people and places with my skills.

It takes all of it to bring this way of life to life.

I think it’s actually the natural byproduct of our most animal, human, soul affirming ways of moving through the world- letting it ALL hang out a bit more than everyone’s telling you to do it.

We want to hear about your long essays that you write about on Sundays and your attention to detail within your home and how you help mothers come back home to themselves after parenting and we want to hear about the raves you started going to to bring your joy back.

We live in interesting times and I really believe in that cliche phrase that there has never been a better time- in the last 40 year economic cycle- to bring about your work and unique multiphyante gifts to the world.

But don’t fall for the advice that says you need to be everywhere all at once- been there done that and that is the fallacy of this way of life and work.

You must be in the right places during the right seasons of life.

Which means shunning much of the traditional productivity ways modern media and influencers try to tell you to live by.

You must know who you are from the inside out and do as much as you can to protect the sacredness of that relationship to self.

Protect that artist within you above else and see how it all unfolds in a magical dance.

Thanks for being here y’all!