If you build it… They won’t know unless you tell them.
Wanna make a guess at the worst part about writing or creating something incredible? I’ll just tell ya… It’s having to tell people about it—a lot and often. 🥴
This part of the gig is hard with a team of people and it’s REAL hard when you alone are the creative, content, strategy, and marketing teams.
But this promotion piece that just doesn’t come easy to me has to be the next huge phase and focus of my work. I’m undoubtedly growing in the discomfort 💪🏽and #onethingiknowforsure is: if your coach (or other wellness provider) isn’t doing their own work to stretch and grow—they 💯% cannot truly support you in yours.🤷♀️
If you don’t already know what I’m talking about, go—read all about The Authentic Ocean™️. This modern guidebook to self awareness is the cornerstone of my work these days. It’s full of tangible lessons and over two dozen exercises to guide you back to the truth of who you are.
My day-to-day is still very much the same but I am stepping into a new season of growth for this curriculum. For now, I’m still incredibly focused on serving all of [you] with inspiration and conscious reminders for living authentically. 🎉And I’m still very much in service with the hundreds of coaching clients I support in one way or another:
From monthly coaching with my membership
to my longer-form program folx,
all the Mastermind session clients,
aaaaaaand the service providers I’m training every week to teach it to their audiences…
There are surely 🌊ample waves of gain💪🏽 (see what I did there?) flowing out of The Authentic Ocean™️ already. But I’m not feeling the rich inspiration in my day-to-day that brought me to the altar of coaching or writing. My best guess at why that is—is in the misalignment of how the work is functioning (albeit it successfully) today versus the visceral knowingness I have that there is more. Like, a lot MORE to do with this methodology and curriculum.
Maybe a good metaphor (simile?) is how a world-class surfer feels when the waves just don’t come. Still-water doesn’t make them “not world-class” but those quiet days (even when they’re out there, in the waters they love) are definitely not feeding the moonstruck part of their spirit that got them into this sport in the first place—right??! Ya feel me? Those days are just not as fun. Well, #itme🙋♀️. I’m the surfer 🏄♂️ and these are those days.
The really good news is, as long as there are people for me to support—as long as y’all are still showing up for your own dreams, and paying me to help, I get to keep growing mine. If you need The Authentic Ocean™, join me in it. If you love what I do, tell someone about it. If you’re curious, let’s chat. Oh! And if you happen to know Cindy Spiegel, will you introduce us?
The Authentic Ocean™️ is a lot of things. But the most succinct way to describe it is “a comprehensive teaching tool for cultivating consciously aligned people, teams, and communities.” Sharing and sharing and sharing again does not come naturally but that is precisely what this work is asking of me. So I will keep showing up here to do just that. I’m so glad you’re here.
