My Approach

The 5 Pillars of Soulful Impact

Dive Into The Practice

This is not a program you complete.

We’ve found that the key to success on this journey is the dedicated practice of these Five Pillars, which form a living cycle. You begin wherever you are. Each pass deepens. The destination is being fully alive in the present moment while contributing what only you can contribute.

01 | Consciousness First

Adopt an empowered creator mindset.

You take full responsibility for your experience. You trust that life is happening for you, not to you. Especially when it is hardest to believe.

The Practice of Pillar 1 Includes:

  • Intentional presence. Above all else, focus on how you want to feel and be. Get fully present in the now moment. Everything else stems from that.

  • Try on the perspective that your state of consciousness precedes and creates your material reality, not the other way around.

  • Focus more on how you are relating to what’s happening (context) than the specific details of what’s happening (content).

  • Choose radical responsibility, curiosity, and trust. Let go of blame, shame, righteousness, and threat.

  • Experience life as an ally conspiring to support you in learning, growing, and waking up.

  • Become the empowered creator of your life.

02 | Plumb The Depths

Turn toward what you are running from.

Whatever you are avoiding is running you. The only way through is through. Stop letting discomfort steer, and realize the gold that is hiding underneath.

The Practice of Pillar 2 Includes:

  • Recognize that as a human with an ego, there are elements of your inner experience that you (consciously or unconsciously) avoid. It’s natural and normal.

  • See this pattern as one of the central ways that your ego perpetuates a distorted and limited idea of the truth of who you really are.

  • Open with love and wonder to whatever your ego resists. Feel the feelings. Face the darkness. Receive it as fertile soil. Integrate the wounded parts. Discover their gold.

  • Embrace intensity. Hold yourself with compassion. The work is not to eliminate discomfort but to stop letting it steer. Stay curious and breathe.

  • Make peace with uncertainty. Love the resistance.

03 | Remember Who You Really Are

Wake up to wholeness.

You are not broken. You never were. This is about recovering who you have always been underneath the performance and the guilt.

The Practice of Pillar 3 Includes:

  • Open to the possibility that the truest version of you is far more expansive, mysterious, and magnificent than you realize.

  • Dedicate yourself to the lifelong practice of remembering who you are and why you are here.

  • Return to your essential nature: creative, resourceful, and whole.

  • Embody the version of yourself who knows they belong and are worthy of love. Speak authentically. Own your wants. Hold healthy boundaries. Play.

  • Tend to the quality of your relationships — with yourself, your people, and the more-than-human world.

  • Explore peak transformational experiences that resonate for you. Experience wholeness directly.

04 | Discover, Cultivate, and Give Your Gift

Live and lead from your unique ecological niche.

There is something only you can do. A way of being in the world that feeds life itself. This pillar is about apprenticing to that mystery and then giving it away.

The Practice of Pillar 4 Includes:

  • Learn to listen to your heart’s true longing.

  • Identify and inhabit your unique zone of genius. Follow your aliveness. Sing your song.

  • Allow something larger to flow through you. Let yourself be guided.

  • Prioritize grounding and support. The deeper the roots, the taller the tree.

  • Be patient. Less is more. Your greatest gift may be the simple quality of your presence.

  • Do what lights you up, scares you, and serves a brighter future.

  • Make your Soulful Impact. Lead.

05 | The Ever-Expanding Spiral

Repeat.

There is no arrival. There is only the next layer. Let the present moment be your teacher.

The Practice of Pillar 5 Includes:

  • Let go of finish lines. This work is never done.

  • Practice humility. Where we trip up is where the learning occurs. You’re not sliding backwards. You’re meeting the next layer of your unfolding.

  • Trust your process as you spiral into both higher heights and darker depths. The more advanced your practice, the more challenging the material that surfaces to be integrated.

  • Give and receive unconditional freedom, joy, and love. It’s OK for life to be this good.

  • Develop, over time, your own unique flavor of practice. Make this work your own.

  • When you’re stuck, go back to basics. The depth of your practice with any pillar enables (or limits) your journey with all of them.

Watch The Deeper Dive

and feel the pillars come to life.

I work with the Five Pillars in two ways.

One-on-One Executive Coaching

Quests & Retreats