Dear Reader,
Are you feeling that grief and change are themes so alive right now?
And, what do they have to do with your livelihood?
Soooo much. That's what I'm writing to you about today. With an invite to welcome in grief and change in 2025, as a North Star that points towards what you love.
My Shifting Context
My beloved Carol Sanford, a leader in regenerative business for decades, died in November.
Carol prepared us for 2 years around conscious dying, and her question for us in her dying process was "What is your work to do now?"
The dying of the second largest reef in the world here in Puerto Morelos has been searing to see; the ongoing agony in the world due to wars and inhumanity...
All of this has activated me again to know that my work now is to support the emergence of economies that nurture life.
And then, just as I was getting rooted here in Mexico and beginning to discern my contribution in this Place, a recent death in my family requires me to return home to support my Beloved daughters who are facing not only the grief of loss, but also sudden tragic changes in their life trajectories. Grief for all of them, and this huge shift in plans derailed me for a few days.
But then I had a long call with a trusted treasured friend; and went for a long beach walk and swim, and Gaia showed me what I needed to re-member.
Accompanying myself, my daughters, and you - as we navigate personal, familial, ecological and global dying processes is a sacred honor.
It is not lost on me that I listened to Martin Prechtel's book "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise" on repeat in the past year. In it, he says:
“Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
Our Work Now
If we want our livelihoods to serve Life, I think in these times, we need to get really good at being with death and grief in ways that alchemize them into praise.
Because of this, when you work with me to discern your livelihood or start or grow your service-based regenerative biz, you don't have to show up shiny and "from the neck up".
I believe that your fullest service emerges from you attuning to
- Your Essence, and your ways of being and knowing.
- What is trying to emerge in the Lifesheds around us
- And how you can best serve in a way that nurtures the capabilities of humans, communities, and Lifesheds to continually regenerate themselves.
Here’s the thing.
We don't learn any of that in a book, or a business course.
I had to create the containers I wished I'd had. And I'm opening them for enrollment in 2025.
Click on any of the hyperlinks and I'll know you are interested in that program. Or, click here if you want to hear about the whole shebang
- The Pathfinders Program will open in January, and it aims to support you to discern your Unique Highest Contribution at this time over 3 months. And if entrepreneurship is for you.
Part of this is alchemizing our grief into the activating energy of love.
- If entrepreneurship is your next step, the Sweet Spot Program (also 3 months long, beginning in April) teaches you the core entrepreneurial skills to discern which endeavor allows you to support yourself and your Beloveds with financial and other resources.
Our process enables you to move at the speed of your nervous system to grow the confidence necessary to show up in the world with your service-based offering.
- Then, in "Abundance Models" we design, test, and iterate your service-based biz and biz model.
By the end of the year, you know innovate and nurture a biz that serves Life.
Your biz can then continue on the unfolding back of becoming the seed of a regerative biz ecosystem.
My clients have said my programs are way better than the expensive business courses or MBAs they paid for.
And they love getting to show up in their fullest humanity, within a group of co-conspirators.
You will soon be getting more info from me about the full year and each cycle.
My Invitation Today
I know it can feel tender and risky to trust a stranger on the internet with your heart, and your life path.
So here's a low-risk, super affordable way to get a feeling for what it's like to work with me.
Start 2025 by growing your capabilities to root into Self, Source, and Gaia as trusted higher wisdoms.
I believe that without them, our livelihoods can't be regenerative
You are invited to join a course in the Regenepreneurs Network that guides you to create your own retreats for cycles of reflection and re-Sourcing in tune with our living world.
I usually do this on the Solstices and Equinoxes, and also when the Gregorian year turns.
It is a profound coming home!
The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 is the perfect time to design your own process for this, and join our community of Regenepreneurs !
I'll be closing this offer shortly after January 1st, once I land back in Upstate NY.