The truth is, this part of the journey—from wounding to sovereignty—isn’t an obstacle. It’s an essential part of any leader’s growth path.

Ultimately, refinement is about stripping away anything that prevents you from walking through the world as a portal into a new consciousness for your people.
Is there anything more potent than someone who moves through the world in this way?

We get stuck at a certain size in our business that we just can’t seem to move beyond. The specific size varies for each person, but the glass ceiling impact is the same.

Everything we need for this moment is already available in this moment…
And anything in the future that isn’t actionable right now isn’t needed right now.

In your life, you’ve probably found that what you DON’T want often creates the contrast needed to bring what you DO want into focus.
If you know you’re here to contribute to a new story for humanity, allow what you don’t want to elicit your “Hell No” and let it inspire you…

We have to turn and face whatever we’ve been unwilling or unable to look at, doing the work to heal it and integrate its gifts, in order to be free to inhabit the new story that’s waiting for us.
I see this in my own life and in the lives of all the leaders I serve. I also see it in every collective, including the countries we live in.

There are streams of energy constantly in motion, and we’re either in the center of the current, drifting off in an estuary, or trying to swim upstream, against the flow.

By positioning yourself as one of the rare guides who dares to lead clients into the “dark” spaces where true power and change reside—you set yourself apart from other services and service providers and create the potential for life-altering breakthroughs for your clients.

When you step into this place of stewardship, the upside is twofold. For the world, the next essential thing it needs emerges. For you, you tap into an entirely new market that no one else has seen yet.

When WHO YOU ARE and WHAT YOU SAY in your marketing and messaging line up, people feel the resonance in the truth you share.

I was in a storytelling training with a mentor a number of years ago, and in the middle of coaching me, he just stopped, looked me deep in the eyes, and said…

“You’ve got a lot of pain in you—that’s a good thing.”

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.