Day 1 was great. Thank you Aaron! This is me before my father died. He took his own life after bouts with bipolar depression before it was understood, and when mental illness was more stigmatized than today. In order to cope with such a tragic loss, and find a new partner, my mother suppressed her emotions, including all the grief—and to maintain her love, I did the same. The new guy she married was emotionally and verbally abusive to her and to me and my younger sister. In order to survive, I disconnected from my self. I held my grief and my anger inside, and adopted a pattern of adapting myself to who others needed me to be that stayed with me into adulthood. I built a career by making myself valuable and suppressing my authentic self—and it took me all the way to the top of my field. But then I got fired, and it was the most devastating thing that ever happened to me (in my adult life). Now I’m moving through the pain and the anger I didn’t know was inside of me, so that I can become my authentic self and create the life I came here to lead. And it’s been the most difficult experience of my life. My biggest takeaway from today was to practice seeing the pattern and accepting it, which just leads me to want to grieve for what that boy never got to experience and how much he suffered. I have to manifest my first client for my new consulting practice and a check in the next 2 weeks, because I am running out of money, and so part of me is freaking the f- out and screaming at myself to hustle and make it happen. Screaming at myself about what a lazy useless poc I am. All the old patterns, which I sometimes have to work hard at being able to see. But another part of me is telling me to keep healing the grief because on the other side of it I’ll know exactly what to do, and manifest my first client without hustling. That they’re already on their way to me. I can see so clearly that the pattern is believing I have to adapt myself in order to get love (or money from a client). To get my needs met.

Aaron… I appreciate you! You’re the coolest dude on the internet 😁 I’m looking forward to the identity shift experience starting tomorrow. It’s a good reminder that experiences are exciting (and why Steve Jobs did events). I’ve been on a profound transformational journey over the past couple of years and I’m finally more ready than I’ve ever been to shed my old skin. Something I’ve found is that I feel a bit manic sometimes—at the peak of optimism for what I can do and accomplish in the world. Then, sometimes a short time after in the pit of despair and worrying that my life is falling apart. Resolving some relationships with family members recently has helped and leads me back to the idea that love is the most important aspect of moving through this process. Transformation has been especially hard for me because I’ve carried some very deep wounds—that I spent most of my life not even realizing I was carrying. It’s taken a while to even realize what I feel. I can only assume feeling a bit manic while moving through a major transformation is par for the course—and Claude confirms it. But I think it has another layer for me because my dad had bi-polar depression, and took his own life after a manic phase—just before my 4th birthday. I think I went through my childhood suppressing the side of my own personality that my dad had when he was manic, because it freaked out my mother (she was afraid of me taking my own life….especially when I struggled with depression). So for me, I think transformation is truly about learning to be a different version of myself. I learned to think of myself as the version of myself that didn’t freak out my mother. I just resumed my relationship with her this past weekend after 3 years without talking, because I’ve finally arrived at a place where I don’t get pulled back into how she sees me whenever we talk. I’m starting to find the ability to feel like my own person for the first time in my life. Healing is such an unexpected process. I can’t help but think that many of us who are going through different but similar things right now and fighting our way through the jungle in the dark are doing so so that we can light the way for so many millions who will follow us and have a much easier journey than we did. And that this is the force that will transform the Earth.

First, I'm psyched for the Identity Shift Challenge. I just signed up, and can't wait to step more fully into transforming my identity—a journey I've been on since longer than some of you have been alive :) Second, I wanted to share something with the tribe that I've learned about how to succeed—and that align's with Aaron's philosophy, which is why I'm here. I built a $1 billion company, was recruited to be in charge of design at Tesla (until they fired me for being too creative), and have taught at Stanford University—I can't believe that one either. One of the most important things I've learned is that nothing outside of you—no external form of success—can ever make you happy. And when you finally fully accept this, you arrive at realizing the key for how to actually succeed is much simpler than most people realize. And I'm sharing this here, in the High Vibe Tribe, because I know you're a group of people who do get it, and who will understand what I'm going to share, and have arrived it through my own journey—of suffering much more than anyone should ever have to suffer to achieve success. First of all, you don't have to suffer to succeed. The game where you suffer and sacrifice yourself to succeed is someone else's game. Maybe it was your parents' game. Maybe it was the game of different people you've worked for. But it's not your game. And I suspect that that's why you're here. Success isn't about what you do. It's not about how hard you work. It's not about finding the right strategy to get your social media to go viral, or make a million dollars in your underwear. Success is about who you're being. Success is about how you see yourself. If you want to manifest all forms of abundance (including, but not limited to, money) then it starts in your energy field (again, I know the High Vibe Tribe will get this). If you clear out your energy field, align your chakras, or simply become a vibrational match for what you want to recieve, you will show up differently in the world, people will respond to you differently, you will attract a different set of opportunities, and you will naturally find yourself taking a different set of actions to arrive at your goals—and those actions will lead you forward effortlessly, without stress, strain, or struggle.

it's official! we are running a free 3 day identity shift challenge! if you have not done so yet do it here! it is needed to get all the information including the zoom links! https://identityshiftchallenge.com/ I’m excited you’ve decided to join me for this transformational 3 day challenge where we are going to be letting go of old patterns, shifting your vibration and wiring in a new magnetic version of YOU! to attend the challenge be sure to read this post in full and follow the 4 easy steps: Step 1: Mark your calendar The challenge kicks off on Wednesday July 15th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET. We’ll meet LIVE on Zoom each day for powerful, identity shifting training sessions that will last for about 2 hours the zoom link for all 3 sessions will be emailed to you! You can see what time the challenge starts in your local time zone by using the calendar tab inside this community. Step 2: Text me for updates and easy access to the zoom link Want reminders, special announcements, and updates before we go live? Text "Shift2026" to +1 (424) 304-0104 to get reminders before we go live and special updates throughout the 3 days! Step 3: Introduce yourself to the High Vibe Tribe as a comment response to this post We’re in this together as a high vibe community! I would love to know a little bit about everyone who’s participating, so go ahead and make a post introducing yourself In your post you can share: - Your name - Where you’re located - And what is your intention of this challenge Step 4: Start the shift into the new version of you Prepare for the 3 day challenge by starting with the meditation below: https://youtu.be/KKrPqB59kg0?si=lAzOK2HOe9k9c9Qc This will help you start to energetically shift into a new version of you! Again, congrats on joining The High Vibe Shift Challenge! I’m excited to see the transformations we’ll create together over these 3 days!

I was inspired by Aaron's story from a while back about his pull to start creating a daily video when he got started, and how that was one thing that launched him into his first success as a creator. I finally got the pull I've been waiting for to do mine. I started last Monday—committed to getting to bed at 10 every night, so I can get up at 5, bike into a local nature preserve, set up my tripod and mic, shoot a video (2, actually because I'm shooting a different one every day to share on LinkedIn, under my real name), and be back home before my wife and kids are even up. This morning was Episode 9, and I just opened up with zero idea of what I was going to say before pressing record (every other day, I've planned the video in my mind while biking over). I've always wanted to host my own show, so created one and nominated myself as the host. My show is called, "Act As If," and it's about the power of acting as if you already are the person you want to be—because it's up to each of us to step into it, noone else can do it for us, and it's not dependant on anything outside of ourselves. If I'm being honest, I've been feeling pretty insecure about my videos—it feels like a very vulnerable act—especially since not many people are watching yet, but have kept going every day trusting that I am following a pull that is going to help me on the journey to where I want to go. Aaron's approach from his paid programs have helped me learn to be more comfortable on camera, and I just looked back at Episode 6 (from Sunday), and realized it's not actually as awkward as I once was on camera. Would love to know what you think, and please follow along if you're inspired to see how my journey unfolds.