As an accomplished coach or consultant, you already know that growth doesn’t come from mastering more tactics or collecting more tools. True evolution happens when you step into the next expression of who you’re called to be.

Not everyone thinks about their impact on an industry or larger collective, but there is an emerging group of leaders who are called to impact whole collectives of people.

You might call them visionaries, innovators, or trailblazers…

But the ones I’m talking about are innovating not just based on emerging trends in a market — they are innovating based on an emerging spiritual consciousness that wants to take root in the audience, industry or collective they serve and help shift our culture.

Many of my clients and colleagues share a mission to restore dignity in the world.

And while we like to think of restoring dignity to others, how often do we show up as examples of the very dignity we seek to restore?

If you’ve developed mastery in your work, there’s something you’ve probably become (perhaps painfully) aware of…

You can’t do your best work with everyone. In fact, you can’t do your best work with most people!

Take your own leap of courage. Generate hope in your people. allow them to take leaps, courageous leaps into new territories. And as you work together, listening, following, leading, and faith.
Each one of us gets this new compass of truth, the more that is instilled in each and every one of us, the more truly, truly, truly the structures of our society shift in substantial and life-giving ways. And that, that is the call.

There’s a common experience that most people share when they show up in my world, and it sounds something like this…
“There’s this vision, this calling, this message, this idea that I know in my bones I’m here to deliver. And it’s not that my brilliant mind came up with it. It’s more that it was delivered to me, or I landed on it. Now that I’ve got it, I know I have something I’m here to steward. I’m here to bring it forward into the world.”

You might look at the marketplace and make assumptions about “how it’s done.” Yes, it’s great to learn from others when it’s aligned with your values. But far too often, I see people copying models, tactics, and strategies that either don’t align with their values, don’t play to their natural gifts and talents, or both. This misalignment disrupts their leadership, business, marketing, and money-making strategies. Sure, you might be able to make some money, but thriving becomes impossible.

If that soul contract calls you to be a trailblazer, it’ll require a much bigger dose of standing out than most people ever encounter or have to wrestle with (so if you’re in the ring, be kind to yourself).

One of the big questions on my heart is this: how do we as change-agents navigate complexity, chaos and change? Because it’s all around us, and as much as we might know deep down that “we were made for such a time as this”, we still experience tumult when the old starts to crumble before the new emerges.

Lately, I’ve been having some powerful conversations with my friend Pamelah Landers about what she calls “Plutonian” work. Pluto, the god of the underworld, symbolizes going deep and digging under the surface to find hidden riches and emerge transformed.

In the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling that presidents are immune to prosecution, this past July 4th (the Independence holiday in the US) felt different—like it might be the last one where I can celebrate the country I’ve known.
If my social media feed is any indication, I wasn’t alone.

One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that when we start waking up to a calling in life, it often feels like the calling has come to us.
But from where?
I used to say something like “The Universe.”
The challenge is that when we perceive that something outside of us is guiding or telling us to do something (and that not doing it will cause all sorts of challenges), it can kick up a lot of inner resistance. After all, who likes being “told” what to do?