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about a situation that led to the pursuit
                                                                                  of a new level of expertise. These two
                                                                                  qualities are a source of reciprocal
      intuitions, imaginations,             was leaving a professional            inspiration for me and it’s something I
      influences, and when it is most       adventure that conflicted with my     invite others to discover as well.
      enlivening.  Explore the context,     personal values---without any
      the qualities you find pleasing or    preparation or new form of            So, what do you have your sights—and
      uplifting, the natural strengths      employment, or even savings in        mind—set on next?
      that compel you to engage and         the bank. Another was rescuing a
      connect. This process brings          failing company that by all           Inspire hope and awaken everyday
      awareness and clarity of your         external evidence was not a           consciousness so that each person
      natural rhythm, and lets you          feasible endeavor, yet today it is a  remembers his or her wholeness,
      operate from the fullness of          thriving concern. Perhaps the         capability and infinite creativity-- in
      yourself.                             greatest risk of all is exploring my  every choice and action. I want to
                                            deepest being, insecurities and       expand the reach of my voice and
      Now you are ready to look out         fears, in order to liberate           messages and invite people to live
      into the world and seek an            unconditional self-love.              sovereign.
      opportunity that aligns with what
      you curated. That might be joining    Do you have any hobbies?              I am attracting the next generation of
      with others or launching an                                                 leaders into inviteCHANGE programs,
      endeavor and asking others to         I have many and I love                to deliver solutions and be legacy
      join you. Keep gut checking as        discovering new ones. The             keepers. As that occurs, I can turn my
      you go along. Be diligent and         alchemy of cooking, in order to       attention to enlivening and awakening
      courageous, trust your heart, and     create a multisensory experience      human collectives everywhere. That
      pursue what enlivens you.             for friends and family; hiking or     may lead to more speaking
                                            driving in back country I’ve never    engagements, which I’d relish.
      Well, that was a crash course in      seen before; weeding my garden
      the authentic self! It must be very   for the satisfaction of restoring     And now that burning question—what
      satisfying to observe the             beauty; reading; traveling; visiting  about the struggle and pain of people
      reflections and outcomes. What        artists’ studios and learning how     in the world who do not have your
      else makes you smile?                 creativity emerges; speaking and      privilege?
                                            writing, and inviting others into a
      The moments when a person             world of wonder.                      I want to bring my message to those
      expresses their essence and it                                              people in particular, as well as those
      opens my heart wider to see him       Instinct vs. expertise. Which one     who are seen as the cause of the
      or her most fully… The times          is more important and why?            struggle and strife. They are two sides
      when I realize my significant                                               to the same coin, and we do not realize
      insignificance as a human in this     I do not see these elements as        we are all one species and co-residents
      big universe of energy... When        separate but joined in an infinity    of the same plant Earth. No one
      someone has a Dorothy Moment          loop that continuously transforms     victimizes us without some degree of
      (like the moral at the end of to the  how we relate to circumstances.       participation albeit invisible and most
      Wizard of Oz) and knows how to        Listening deeply to instinct          hard to understand (e.g. school
      return home to their self. I smile    broadens our perception of what       shootings start far in advance of a
      every time I stumble forward and      is occurring around us and that       firearm discharging.)
      realize how grateful I am to be a     stimulates curiosity for learning,
      work in progress.                     experimenting, and producing          Very wealthy people often feel poor,
                                            fulfillment. This expands our state   fear destitution and in the face of it,
      Was there a point in your career      of being and what our instinct is     pursue more wealth. It’s an exhausting
      when you had to take a big risk?      able to sense. The energy flows       cycle with consequences for those
                                            with ease when we allow both to       ignored or dismissed as “not my
      Many, many times actually. There      exist in partnership. I will say that  responsibility. “ The diversity of this
      is truly no growth without it. One    in my life, often it was my instinct   human race is a great gift, and we


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