Over the next few days, we are doing some serious remodeling. I am restructuring this entire group into a true "Ascension Machine" to bridge high-level mindset work with transparent, high-ticket execution. Here is a sneak peek at what is rolling out: 1. The Gamified Vault: I am dropping a brand new 10-minute masterclass called The Silence Protocol (how to cure the sales wobble and hold your value) into the Classroom. But you can't buy it. It automatically unlocks the second you hit Level 3 by sharing wins and engaging in the feed (some of you are already there - so patience, please...I'm flying the plane while learning to fly the plane I am building). 2. The Dual-Path Curriculum: Dedicated, step-by-step classroom modules designed specifically for those building my $1,828–$8,250 asset-backed vehicle, AND those here strictly to master "Authoritative Specificity" for their own business. 3. The Rehearsal Room & New Workspaces: Highly specific feed categories where you can drop your scripts, pitches, and tech questions so we can get messy and fix the math. 4. Upgraded Live Events: Our new calendar is getting loaded with weekly live script rehearsals, monthly networking Mingles, and VIP hot-seat audits. We are building a space where you can actually practice, refine, and win. Drop your vote in the poll below: Which of these new rollouts are you most eager to dive into? (Bonus: If you drop a comment below telling me WHY you chose your answer, Skool will automatically award you points toward unlocking Level 3!). Let's work! PS Temporary video below: Recording the actually fully produced with screen shares later today, feedback appreciated. We do communication interpersonally! Stay coachable!

One full week of this series. Seven days in a row, filmed and published. If you're still reading this, you've crossed the point where most people quit something like this. Here's the test I gave on Day 7, and it's the simplest thing I've taught in this whole series: When I listen to my intuition, I feel calm and at ease. When I don't, I get anxiety. And I regret it every single time. That's it. Not fireworks. Not angels singing!!! HA! Calm on one side, anxiety on the other. Sometimes the calm directive is inconvenient. It might be asking you to do the hard, unglamorous thing. Intuition doesn't always feel like a warm hug. It just doesn't feel anxious. Watch the video here: I Listen to My Intuition Now Here's whose voice I believe it actually is. I believe my intuition is God. Not separate from my faith. It's how God speaks to me, decision to decision. I'll also tell you something I don't usually say out loud. I worry what people think of the social media posts for this business. And I'm telling you that in the very content that becomes one of those posts. My fear says don't publish this. My intuition says publish it anyway. So here it is. Come with me. The decision to join the business I'm building wasn't a thinking decision. It was a knowing decision. If you've been over-analyzing an opportunity in your own life, sometimes the right yes doesn't arrive as a solved equation. It arrives as a knowing. And the endless analysis might just be fear wearing logic's clothes. Colossians 3:15, KJV: "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." The word "rule" there is Greek for umpire. Peace makes the call. Today's homework has two questions: First, name one decision you're currently overthinking. Then ask yourself when you picture moving forward, do you feel calm, or do you feel anxious? Finally, when have you regretted not listening to your own intuition?

Twenty years ago my sister and I produced the first-ever Vagina Monologues in Dubuque, Iowa. We'd seen Eve Ensler perform it on Broadway and decided to bring it home. We had no idea people would react the way they did. They called the police on us. They told us we needed to leave their town. We sold out both nights anyway and raised $30,000 for the Riverview Center. This year we're holding the 20th anniversary at Voices Gallery. Day 5 of the series is about Will. Not the white-knuckling kind. Ha! The faith-rooted kind that holds its direction and finds the channel even when the room is saying no. The opposition wasn't the obstacle. It was the curriculum. James 1 says the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work. We didn't raise $30,000 despite the resistance. We raised it because we didn't let the resistance create what was possible. Today's homework is, name one place where outside circumstances are draining your will right now, then ask yourself are you trying to smash through it, or are you looking for the channel where the energy flows? Post your answer here. And tell me what's something you did anyway when the world said "we don't do that here"?

I pictured myself as a professor. Vividly. The office, the students, the title, yep, all of it. Then, almost as if by magic, I got a full-time, tenure-track job as Assistant Professor of Communication at Clarke. Here's the part that still gets me: I reached out to the department at the exact moment the previous professor was quitting. They needed someone fast. I was already imagining the role before I had any idea the door was about to open. Day 6 of the series is about Imagination and I want to correct something right away, because most of the internet gets this wrong. Imagination isn't daydreaming. It isn't closing your eyes and ignoring what's actually true about your life. It's a test universe; the place you try a reality on before you commit real resources to building it. Here's the confession underneath today's video: I hold myself back from outcomes because I don't have patience for the process it takes to get there. I have shelved film projects right now. Finished or nearly finished. Not because I stopped believing in them because I lost patience for the slow, unglamorous work standing between me and releasing them. It's rarely a vision problem. It's almost always a patience problem. I also caught myself in a theology I used to hold that I could just have faith and God would do the rest, with no effort required on my part. I wrote that sentence in my own journal recently, and in the very same entry, I corrected myself. Because faith without works is dead, and works without faith is empty. They're partners, not opposites. James 2:26, King James Version: "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." Romans 4:17, King James Version: God "calleth those things which be not as though they were." Faith imprints the pattern. Works keep it alive. That's not new-age. That's ancient. Tonight's homework: name one outcome you're currently imagining for your life. Then ask yourself honestly — are you pairing it with patient action, or are you waiting for it to

Today's faculty is Memory. And the thing I found this morning when I sat with my own earliest memories is still sitting with me. Here's the short version, from the research: Dan McAdams at Northwestern studied what happens when people frame difficult past experiences as formation versus damage. He called them redemption sequences and contamination sequences. People carrying redemption sequences showed measurably better wellbeing, maturity, and generativity. People carrying contamination sequences showed the opposite. Same events. Different meaning. Different lives. The events of my life don't get to decide what they mean. I do in partnership with God and the work I've been doing. Tonight's homework (ten minutes): Write down one memory you've been carrying as evidence of a limitation about yourself. Then ask one question: what does God, or the work, or the version of you who has now done four days of this, have to say about what it actually meant? Post your answer here. This community is your witness and witnessed meaning-making is the whole point. Full video linked below. Days 1-4 are building something. If you've been watching from the beginning, you'll feel the compounding today.