"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

I thought “not enough” was financial, so I made every life choice through the lens of money … thinking if I only had more money, then my problems would be solved. My thoughts sounded something like:

• If I go to this event, will it bring me more money?
• If I spend time with this person, will I have more money?
• If I create this offer or program, will it result in more money?
• If I post this on Twitter, will I make more money? (That was back in the day when Twitter was the only real social media, and I had quite a big following there)

The crazy part, though, was I didn’t think money drove my life. I believed I was motivated by purpose, and mission, and vision, and care. And, that was also true.

Wetiko, or "Money Dysmorphia": the distorted view many of us have around our financial reality that causes us to compromise our non-renewable resources, including time, energy, attention and even relationships in service to money, which is in fact infinitely renewable.

My discovery around money dysmorphia and the way it was impacting me (and most of us, frankly), occurred during a transformative journey in which I walked away from all of the “success” I had created in Los Angeles, and moved to a farm in Colorado, to live for a year with the question -- who am I, if money isn’t a motivating force in my life? 

Turns out, the answer to those questions were yes, yes, and no. 

The journey to get here has been an epic tale of discovering that our traditional legal and financial systems are conditioning us with a perpetual belief in scarcity and survival that causes us to compromise the truth of who we really are.

Today, my life and work is dedicated to sharing my discoveries and creating new legal and financial models to right align our collective incentives so we can collectively live into a more beautiful world.

“Don't fight the existing system, create a new model”
- Buckminster Fuller

Fast forward to today, I lead an 8-figure portfolio of companies, each of which is focused on transforming the lives, hearts, and minds of our clients, heart-centered trusted advisors who have been longing for a new service model that allows them to use their minds in service to their hearts, and serve their clients in a truly meaningful way. 

I no longer hate myself or struggle with internal conflict. I understand the inheritance I received, and have healed the scarcity and survival patterns that drove me for most of my life,  causing me to make poor choices. I trust life, and myself. And, in so many ways, my story is still being written. If you want to know more, you can follow along with my journey through some of my writings here.