Based on the plans I put in motion a few months ago, I thought I was going to be writing to you today about my new course under the Wild Dreams umbrella.

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But that’s not what's happening. (Read to the end for all the updates alongside lessons learned.)

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When I decided to offer Wild Dreams in a self-guided format this year, I was really excited to simplify and bring ease to myself and the women who would be part of the program.
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I didn’t realize just how much needed to change and be reshaped. As more clarity emerged in the development process, I began to understand that creating a self-guided program was about honoring simplicity.

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What seemed like simply recreating Wild Dreams live coaching into a course became a point of personal awareness, desire, and values alignment.

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I wanted the next offer to be a self-guided, simple preparation program for the Wild Dreams live program -- Something for the busy caregivers, coaches, and future entrepreneurs to step into another level of inner work at a slower pace. I also wanted to slow down and simplify how I approached the work. I wanted to release and shed more of that urgency mode in exchange for impact.

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And so, with lots of dialogue and emergence, the team and I shifted the timeline more than three times in six months.

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And it became clear we needed to slow down the birth of this self-guided program to honor divine timing and what was in front of all of us.
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While this was happening, I was also managing illness, work travel, increased consulting requests, and the deep inner work I was called to do over the course of the year. The team that supports Wild Dreams has also been navigating transitions, projects, illness, life lessons, and lifestyle changes.

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After many short sprints to change the timeline, we all sat down together and decided to slow down the development of the self-guided program to honor simplicity, impact, collaboration, and our well-being.
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I think we all deeply exhaled when we decided to get off the unsustainable track we were on and start a new one. On this new track, we gave ourselves permission to start a new timeline and to bring our values further into alignment with the new program.
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So what do you do when everything goes off track?
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Sometimes life or our projects really feel way off – and maybe we actually derail right at this point. Or maybe we teeter forward, unsure and unsteady, just barely hanging on.
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When you decide to create something new or reimagine a project or a part of your life, be assured that it is 100% not going to be a linear path. Like this track, the process will look and feel unsteady because we are venturing into unknown territory. Questions arise at every moment and looking back on this year, there are still many unanswered questions in the big picture of our lives.

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With just a few more weeks left in 2022, I have paused, canceled, and relocated many projects. I decided in the summer that I would not have a Fall cohort for Wild Dreams because of the growing number of requests presented to me for cultural work inside teams which I wanted to engage with. As I honored the real boundaries of my capacity, two things became clear, I needed more simplicity and I needed time and support to retool the inside of my coaching practice -- you know, the back end part you don’t see.

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It has been enlightening and “on brand” for me to see exactly how this process and my changing relationship with time have played out over the last few months. As everyone on the team began experiencing what I consider messages to slow down, I realized that it was deeply important to me to do things with integrity and create a solid foundation for a coaching practice that supports the social sector and women of culture.

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I also felt the FOMO. I started wondering, “am I missing out? Do I not understand how to scale? Why am I not more adept at this?” All the performative messages I have received came through. In spite of these messages from a colonized system that doesn’t want us to slow down and work with integrity, that’s exactly what the team and I have done.

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We slowed all the way down. And it was quite instructive.

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I started to hear my mentors and those I admire in the wellness space talk to me about impact.

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I started looking at mechanisms one by one and asking myself, Is what we are spending time on impactful? What are the priorities?

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Something that is important to remember is that when we slow down, we receive subtle messages about what is most important and impactful. And when we don’t slow down, our body becomes a beacon for it. Being intentional about rest and acknowledging the state of our mind-body-spirit will allow us to honor how we are changing. Allowing the experience of being totally off track to be one of learning instead of struggle will give us something invaluable - deeper, sustainable roots.

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Right now, the future of the Wild Dreams self-guided course is in that rooting process. And with the collective support of my team, we will find the way forward in a timeframe that feels aligned with what this program is all about – purpose and inner power. What has become clear is that the work itself cannot be rushed or fit into a box. The ancestral energy that defines my approach has a life and breath of its own, and it must be honored.
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And so I thank you for being here as a witness and honoring that energy as well.

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​Big Update: I want to share that the live Wild Dreams coaching program will still be returning in February 2023, and you’ll be notified when applications open for this round. I invite you to join the waitlist to be among the first to know.​
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The new ecosystem we are creating for the Wild Dreams umbrella is taking shape for the spring, a new seed to sprout in the abundant garden I’ve been cultivating for many years.
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As always, my inbox is open and you can reply to this email to share what’s on your mind and heart.

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