You're allowed to let it be this good.
I've been in a major expansion phase lately. This didn't sneak up on me — I've been cultivating it for years, and in the last few months, something's really wriggled into place.
The work is different. The clients are different. The way I'm showing up is different.
But if I hadn't taken time in my journal to really track how radically things have changed, I wouldn't have found myself totally gobsmacked with gratitude recently.
If you're ready for things in your world to be radically different, read on for an empowering reality check.
Here's what I did.
I wrote down the hardest parts of my life. The real ones, not the sanitized version. (Vulnerability loading…)
Disordered eating at 16 — and now, eating joyfully to nourish my body. (I actually have a funny trick for getting myself to eat more vegetables; let me know if you want to hear it.)
An emotionally abusive relationship at 22 — and now, fifteen years into a marriage with the most loving, supportive, total smokeshow of a man.
Carrying 5-figure credit card debt at 23 — and now, having more financial abundance than I ever thought possible, and finally letting myself enjoy it.
A terror of highways so acute that even the thought of driving on one would send me into a panic attack — and now, driving up and down the eastern seaboard with my kids in the backseat like it's no big deal.
Years of drinking too much and moving my body too little — and now, drinking only very occasionally and showing up for my trainer every single week, going on four years.
I wrote all of that down. And then I just...sat with it.
Holy smokes.
It is outrageously, ridiculously good — and I'm just getting started.
But first, I had to learn how to receive it all. For a long time, I minimized the good things. Made excuses for why they didn't count. Stayed in improvement mode so constantly that I never stopped to take in how far I'd come.
You, too?
So today, I want to invite you to try this.
Write down the hardest parts of your life. Don't sanitize it. This is just for you. No need to, well, blast it to your entire mailing list.
Then write down your life now. All of it — the business you've built, the relationships you've grown, the version of yourself you've become. Don't minimize.
Then sit with the distance between those two lists.
That distance is yours. You made it. Let that settle into your marrow.
Now look at what you're actually made of.
You've proven to yourself that you're capable and determined. The question is what becomes possible when someone helps you spot exactly where you're still playing small.
Picture the version of your business that lives just past the edge of what you've let yourself want so far. What does your work feel like? What do you charge? Who are your clients? What does a Tuesday afternoon look like?
That image exists for a reason. The distance between where you are and where that image lives is almost never a strategy problem. It's a receiving problem. A permission problem. A grip problem.
You've already done things that once felt completely out of reach. The question is what becomes possible when you stop doing them alone.
That's the work I do with my clients. The real excavation — finding exactly where you're still playing small, and what it would take to stop.
I have two spots open right now: a June 1 start and a June 15 start.
This is six months of deep, ongoing coaching work — plus built-in Voxer access so when the moment hits — an insight, a decision, something you need to think through — you can drop it in a voice note and hear back from me the same day.
A year from now, what do you want to be true? And what is it costing you — in energy, in money, in the life you're not fully living yet — to keep figuring it out alone?
If that question lands somewhere uncomfortable, that's your sign. Hit reply orbook a fit call. June 1 and June 15. Two spots. I'd love for one of them to be yours.
