Expediting the inevitable.

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We are BANG in the middle of eclipses. We are ALL feeling it, in some way, shape or form. Mercury went retrograde this week, and that one certainly gets a bad rap.

With all these transits, I believe we get to make of them what we will. This eclipse window has had me move into a new house in Venice, start a new contract with a purpose driven business I feel VERY pumped about, close a recruiting deal, meet several folks that feel very aligned with business and music for the next chapter, and I’ve just landed in Mexico to renew my visa.

Sh*t is MOVING. Thank God. Finally. This chapter has been a long time coming.?

I like to think of eclipses as ‘expediting the inevitable’. Relationships, jobs, homes, money can all get ripped out of our worlds in an instant, and just as quickly, land in reality, defibrillating us into the life of our dreams.?

Expedite the inevitable.?

I’ve been told there are only two prayers that matter. ‘Help’, and ‘thank you’.?There are a lot of THANK YOUs today.?

I think often about these paths of destiny we’re all on. I like to think that I have an idea about mine, but truthfully I have to remind myself often, I don’t know sh*t about sh*t.

Although as a side note, I wrote in my journal 6 months ago about the EXACT home I now find myself in. Complete with a bathtub with a skylight to look at the trees, and white tile, and in the middle of the bustle of Venice but as quiet as a sanctuary can get… and MANNNN this stuff is uncanny at times.

So whilst I may not know sh*t about sh*t, I DO know what I want, and reality seems to be matching that closer and closer these days.?

One of the things I have been writing about for some time is the work I want to be doing in the world. I know I get to be on stage making music, but what’s the point of having a platform unless you’re using it for good? So there’s the mental health piece in there for sure, because I have serious gripe with the way we generally understand the term ‘mental health’.

There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with us. F that. Go find the things that set your soul on fire. I did. And now I don’t want to kill myself anymore. Quite the opposite in fact. My god I love this life so VERY VERY much.

But the third and final component, is helping build companies I believe in. Getting every cell of my being behind the PEOPLE I believe in. And the people I believe in, are the ones that are following the things that set their souls on fire. Helping build THOSE things into being excites the hell outta me.

So I kept writing and saying out loud and telling people, ‘I want to help build businesses that are purpose driven and mission led, where the founder is quite literally following the call of their soul.’

And recruiting for those companies is one avenue, but then out of the blue, my friend Chef Chris of Venice was looking for a Head of Sales to help launch his new animal style, best quality you can buy, food delivery business, The Gourmet Animal.

I was going to help recruit for the role as a favour for a friend. But he starts telling me about the business, and how eating clean, upping the protein, cutting out seed oils and the sugars etc. literally changed his entire life and he just wants to provide the same life changing experience he had for more people, and here is a man who is telling me that he is BUILDING THE THING THAT SETS HIS SOUL ON FIRE.

Hire me Chris. I want to get behind YOU.

So he does. He is now paying me to help him grow his business. And we have a sales strategy, and we’re doing an event next month, and it’s bringing together the founders of purpose driven, values led businesses, because that’s his key customer. And that’s also EXACTLY who I want to be building a community with.

And we now have Eben Britton involved too. And if being surrounded by a lot of absolutely ripped, attractive, really good dudes isn’t motivation to start getting in better shape, I don’t know wtf is. ?

So here I am. I wrote it down. I said it out loud. And here we are. Doing the damn thing.?

IN CASE YOU CAN’T TELL THIS LIFE IS CURRENTLY SETTING MY SOUL ON FIRE IN VERY INSANE, BUT OF COURSE IT’S NOT INSANE, BECAUSE IT IS IN FACT VERY REAL, WAYS.?

Expediting the inevitable.?

This is where I’m supposed to be. This is what I’m supposed to be doing. And it feels hella good.?

You know what another way to expedite the inevitable is? Doing the damn thing. Picking up the phone, sending the email, doing the brave and scary thing AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.?

I surround myself with people who do big brave scary things. Because I do big brave scary things, and that makes shit happen. And what is big and brave and scary is all relative. To every single one of us. It’s a muscle we build over time.?

When we hosted our first Whole Collective event last year, I knew I had to get John S. Couch involved. I had had his book in my car for 2 years prior, reading it at every cafe or lone-top bar I went. Every single word spoke to me. Every. One. I literally can not recommend enough that you go buy his book, ‘The Art of Creative Rebellion’ this very instant. It is absolute GOLD I tell you.

Whilst I wasn’t actively following John’s blueprint for building a life filled with passion, purpose, and meaning, retroactively I see that it summarises my own journey in such a perfect way.?

There was no-one who embodied this vision I had more than John. But I had never met the guy, and he had an 80,000+ following. So last year I find him on every platform, instagram, email, LinkedIn and ask him to come speak at our launch event.

I don’t expect to hear anything back, but thank god for his wife JC, who intuitively said maybe this crazy lady messaging him on every platform could be worth meeting.

It was.

John. Hi. Thank you again for replying to that email. I did the brave scary thing (which was relative at the time) and it led to rewards in leaps and bounds.?

I was on the receiving end of such an email last week. Not calling the person writing it crazy, although my favourite people are, but it was a very strong “I like what you’re putting out into the world” kinda vibe. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that feedback felt very good. So I invite the guy to my show, and a business happy hour, and we’re now plugging him in to what I’m helping Chris build.?

And I mention this all to say, we can expedite our own inevitable. We don’t have to wait for an eclipse, although these are highly charged times we can ride to our benefit.

It’s a rinse and repeat kinda deal. Keep putting it out there. I have found that those times I am acting from a truly inspired place, where I feel seized by the moment and I text that person or email, and with practice have learnt to detach from any sort of outcome… the more I just keep doing that again and again, the more it keeps coming back around.?

'You gotta pay to play'. And that’s exactly it. Send the email. Text the guy. Run naked down the streets and expedite the ‘living off of the land’ lifestyle you’re really calling in.?

Peace.?

It’s a process.?

—Holly Gottlieb (Founder, Whole Collective)

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