Three Updates, Three Reasons, Three Invitations.
How I'm ending the year 2023.
I’ve worked with a lot of people around their purpose. Cultivating their purpose, crystallizing it, and leading with it.
Purpose is a transformational force.
Purpose has the power to save lives. Purpose helps people persevere. Purpose helps people become capable of extraordinary things. Purpose heals.
I’ve seen this all firsthand.
I’ve experienced this all firsthand.
Sometimes the people I work with feel stuck around their purpose. They say, “I don’t know what I want.”
That’s when I shift the question. “Well then… What wants to happen through you?”
This takes the ego out of it. Taking the ego out of it helps us connect with that which is greater than ourselves. This strengthens our intuition—our felt knowing.
From this place, the answer becomes clear, as most things do once the mind is transcended.
Sometimes I ask myself the same question.
The three updates and invitations to follow are the direct result of me answering that question. This is what wants to happen through me.
They are things that I feel called to provide, and I’ve learned to trust that calling.
The Self-Explorer’s Club
This is an online community for the spiritually curious to discover the truth of who they are, explore their limitless human potential, and create their lives from the inside out.
To be honest, my ego doesn’t want to start a community. It feels like a lot to keep up with. My ego wants to write things here and there and hide in between. But this life has other plans for me, at least for now. For a part of me, the community is uncomfortable, and sometimes we are called to do that which is uncomfortable.
Reasons:
I want to have meaningful discussions around human nature, spiritual principles, philosophical concepts, and universal laws. This is the stuff I spend most of my time exploring and implementing. This is the stuff that has helped me overcome depression, free myself from anxiety, and change the way I live for the better. I want to create a community where this stuff is explored together, collectively. I think of the great philosophers who would meet together to discuss a life well lived. That’s what I feel called to create.
I want to share content differently. Platforms like this and Instagram are missing something for me. It’s very unidirectional. I create something and the follower/subscriber consumes it (if the algorithm even shows them it to begin with). There is not discussion. It’s not reciprocal. It’s not co-created. Content is consumed passively. It’s not meaningfully explored, it’s not learned, it’s not implemented, it’s not digested. It’s skimmed and scrolled. That is meaningless to me. It lacks depth. The Self-Explorer’s Club is a place for depth, where together we will share, explore, and implement what we’re learning about who we are and what we’re capable of. I will still write here occasionally, but if you want more of my work on a deeper level, please consider joining this group. I’d love to have you there.
Lone wolf season is over. I’ve lived most of my life in isolation. Not physically, but psychologically and emotionally. That’s gotten me to where I am. It won’t get me to where I’m going. That season is coming to a close. My greatest insights lately often come not from isolation, but connection. They come from discussion, teaching and learning, and coaching. Sometimes it feels like I’m coaching myself in every client I work with. The greatest realizations for my own life come through my service to them. This community will foster those realizations even more. Our spirituality can also be isolating at times. It’s still something people do not always feel free to discuss. There aren’t a lot of spaces for it, especially spaces that are free of religious dogma. Our spiritual life can feel like a journey we take alone. It’s time we take it together.
I’m looking to start this community with a small group of people to help set the foundation before opening the doors to a larger audience. I’d love if you were a part of that small group. We will co-create this together.
Learn more and join Self-Explorer’s Club here. We begin in December.
The Odyssey
This is a year-long transformational mentorship program I will be offering to one person.
Reasons:
I’ve never offered anything like this before.
I just took an incredible training that encouraged me to offer something that I’m deeply excited to deliver. I love coaching. It never gets old for me. It’s fun and fulfilling. Seeing peoples’ lives transform before my eyes is a gift I get to both give and receive. This simply takes that to another level. The longest I’ve worked with a client is six months, and the length of my work with clients has actually gotten shorter over time. As I’ve expanded my coaching skills and gone deeper myself, I’ve been able to help people generate several months’ worth of change in a session or two. So, when I think about what can happen in a year with someone, I’m genuinely excited about the possibilities. My wish for myself and us all is that we do the things we’re excited about.
I feel called to support and guide a heart-centered change agent with a big vision and mission that will uplift the lives of others. It will be an honor to help that person step into the fullest expression of themselves for the benefit of humanity. If that’s you, let’s talk.
Notes on Awakening
I’m pushing the release date back to 12/12. Pre-order is still available for eBook and paperback copies will be available upon the release.
Reasons:
The original release date was Thanksgiving. I didn’t realize this when I set the date… mainly because I don’t care about Thanksgiving, and 11/23 meant something special to me. Once I realized that it was Thanksgiving, I no longer felt aligned with releasing the book on that day. It’s already a consumerism-driven time. We consume an excess of food and then the day after we consume an excess of things. I don’t want this work to add to that noise or get lost in it, especially when a core tenet of my message is around the elimination of excess.
I am still working on the section intros to the book. Most of the writing in the book is untouched. I left it exactly how I originally wrote it. However, once I organized those pieces into sections, I added introductions to each section to provide context. Those don’t quite feel right yet. This is not about perfectionism. It’s about that indescribable feeling that the creator feels when the work is ready. I’m circling it and will arrive there soon. I’m certain of that, because I feel it, and also because if I delay the release date again Amazon won’t let me do a pre-release for another year… and I’ll have another book out by then :)
I had Self-Explorer’s Club and The Odyssey come through recently and, rather than delay them, I felt called to release them alongside the book as a joint force for collective awakening.
Learn more about the book here.
Thank you for being curious and being here with me. I hope you listen for what wants to happen through you and courageously follow that call.
May you follow the light of your enthusiasm.
Talk soon,
Zack