We’re back after a short pause while I refined the course, and I’m thrilled to welcome everyone—new members and returning ones alike. Starting this week, The SMART Workshop will meet every Thursday at 6 PM PST. Together, we’ll dive into the pillars of Skill, Acumen, and Experience—the tools that bring your intelligence fully online and harmonize what you already know with who you’re becoming. 🔗 Zoom link and details located in the Calendar. Expect conversation, reflection, and insight in an open, interactive space designed to inquire, inspire, and share. 👉 You don’t need to have completed anything to join. Whether it’s your first session or your tenth, you belong here. 🕓 More times for Funny and Tortured workshops will be announced soon—drop a comment below with other times that work best for you. Let’s reconnect, recharge, and reimagine what it means to be Smart. 💡

How is everyone doing? I am finally getting to use the integration tool and it's SO AMAZING!!!!! How is everyone else's experience going??? Sending love.

If you’ve ever been called “all over the place,” “multipassionate,” or the dreaded “jack-of-all-trades,” here’s your reframe: you’re a ConSynth—a conceptual synthesist. You fuse lenses from different worlds into something new and useful. That’s not scattered; that’s sovereign. What’s a ConSynth? A builder who spots patterns, stitches a model, and ships it so others can use it. It’s how Smart • Funny • Tortured actually moves: - SMART (skills + acumen + experience) → inputs & pattern recognition - FUNNY (joy + flow + pleasure) → translation layer that makes ideas sticky - TORTURED (shame + trauma + desire) → fuel and constraint that force clarity→ ESSENCE (sovereign output) you can teach, sell, or live by Quick examples of ConSynth in the wild🥇 - Lin-Manuel Miranda: hip-hop × U.S. history × Broadway → Hamilton. - Hedy Lamarr: film × radio engineering → frequency-hopping (Wi-Fi ancestor). - Steve Jobs: calligraphy × computing × industrial design → the Mac UI aesthetic. - Temple Grandin: animal behavior × systems design → humane livestock systems. - Rick Rubin: cross-genre listening × minimalism × artist psychology → career-reviving albums. Old labels → SFT truth ✨ - “Jack of all trades” → Cross-domain integrator - “ADHD scatterbrain” → High-bandwidth pattern detector - “Can’t pick a lane” → Builds lanes, names them, invites others to drive The job: turn your mixed bag (lived experience + study + scars + humor) into frameworks, tools, and stories that help people move. 🧠 A Question to Claim Your ConSynth Identity Answer in the comments. Keep it raw, specific, and real. ❓Which pain or constraint has secretly been your best teacher? Describe the rule or model it forced you to invent. (If you were training someone you love, how would you teach them that rule in one page?) ✨ Bottom line: If you live SFT, you’re already doing conceptual synthesis. The name ConSynth just strips the shame and hands you the keys. Let’s see your first map.

Tonight’s Funny workshop was pure magic. The laughter, the honesty, and the moments of awakening to the pursuit of pleasure to activate joy reminded us why this pillar is so essential. Thank you to everyone who showed up with your humor, your stories, and your light. Share the light that stayed with you—whether it was a breakthrough about joy, an insight on flow, or simply a moment that made you smile. Your reflection could be the medicine another member needs today. 🌟 🗓️ And remember: these workshops are not about perfection or completion—they’re about connection. You don’t need to have every worksheet done to join. Just bring yourself, your curiosity, and your willingness to play. Check the Calendar tab for the next gathering (September 10th at 6PM). Until then—drop your takeaways below and keep spreading the joy with your Smart Funny Tortured family. 💫

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. I decided to pull just from the FUNNY pile to give you something to reflect on and share with the group. I specifically chose funny again for the weekend in order for us all to think about what is our joy, what puts us in flow state and what gives us or how do we give pleasure. Please share in the comments so we can all bask in each other’s FUNNY.