Part III: Everything Is Connected
(The Sacred Business Manifesto Part III)
Coming in sideways?
Eventually, we both arrived at the same place: everything is connected. Your inner patterns create your outer results. Your business challenges and your personal growth challenges aren’t separate problems. They’re the same problem wearing different clothes.
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Through our separate paths, we both found healing. And we both arrived at the same conclusion: the fragmented approach, all outer strategy with no inner work, doesn’t hold. You need both.
We call this your Sacred Business.
Integrating different aspects of your life has the power to elevate everything.
A Sacred Business is one where you’re clear on what you offer. Visible in a way that feels right. Attracting clients who value your work. And doing it without destroying yourself in the process.
It’s built on a simple premise: your inner patterns create your outer results. Address both, and everything shifts. Ignore one, and you’ll keep hitting the same walls.
This is the essence of living from your highest self, and as an entrepreneur, this is the path of Sacred Business.
At some point, you’ll face a choice: keep hedging, or commit fully. We call this the Love-Led Leap. More on that later
We’ve since worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs stuck in the fragmented approach. We help them get clear on what they actually offer, get visible without burning out, and attract clients who value their work. We do it by addressing both the inner patterns and the outer strategy.
It takes patience. It takes commitment. And it takes working both sides.
It’s not about chasing the next strategy or jumping to the next thing. It’s about staying the course while doing the inner work that makes staying possible.
This requires courage. And it requires seeing how you get in your own way.
We’ve seen the same patterns over and over. Predictable ways entrepreneurs sabotage themselves, often without realizing it.
Here's a few ways unnecessary limitation could be standing in the way of your Sacred Business:
Hedging your bets feels safe—but keeps you small.
One pattern shows up at every level: hedging.
If you’re honest with yourself, there’s probably one thing you know you should be building. One direction that would change everything if you actually committed to it.
If you are anything like me, you've probably connected to this feeling before.
But instead, we spread ourselves thin. Multiple paths. Multiple projects. Never fully committed to any of them.
With each additional valve, the more our focus fragments, the further we get from expressing our full potential.
I once met an entrepreneur who told me he had 50 projects in various stages. Fifty seeds planted, hoping one would grow. Meanwhile, he was stuck in a day job he hated, trading time for money that had nothing to do with what he actually wanted to build.
From the outside, the flaw is obvious. No focus. No progress. Constant feeling of being stuck.
When you put half the energy in, you get — at best — half the energy out.
For entrepreneurs, hedging looks like constant pivoting. Chasing trends. Too many offers before any of them have traction
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Why do we do this? Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of missing out. Fear of committing fully and having it not work. We hold ourselves back from fully committing to our true passion and instead scatter our energy across a wide array of projects in the hope that one will stick.
This fear-based approach dilutes everything. You never get the clarity, the visibility, or the traction that comes from full commitment.
Hedging is a safety mechanism. But by protecting yourself from failure, you guarantee it. You never build enough momentum in any direction to actually succeed.
It shows up whether you're trying to launch your first offer or your fifteenth.
The first step is recognizing the pattern. It’s fear. Once you see it, you can start to interrupt it.
…You have so much to offer!
The invitation here is to look inside of yourself with radical honesty.
Ask yourself: Are you actually committed? Or are you hedging and hoping something takes root despite the lack of focus?
Ask yourself: What is the one thing that deeply expands your heart, and could you commit to building up your energy in such a way that you could say no to everything that is not that?
What possibilities would moving beyond fear and fragmentation create for you in your life?
Success without soul
In July 2023, I spent a week with entrepreneurs running six- and seven-figure businesses. What I heard surprised me.
The same disconnection I'd felt at the height of my success was echoing through every conversation.
Driven, talented people. All wrestling with the same invisible disconnect. Despite everything they’d achieved, there was an undercurrent of exhaustion.
Each conversation, each shared strategy seemed to be underscored by a silent question: "Is this it?"
This question haunts entrepreneurs at every level — from those dreaming of their first sale to those who've "made it."
Many were pushing themselves to the brink. Next launch. Next big idea. Trying to leave their mark.
Working tirelessly. Health suffering. Relationships strained. And when they were honest? Many weren’t sure they were on the right path at all.
They’d built the business. But somewhere along the way, they’d lost touch with why. This wasn’t just burnout. It was something deeper.
They’d done everything right. Best practices. Proven strategies. Right team. Personal development.
Profitable businesses. Thousands of customers. Successful by any measure. And hollow.
The more they achieved, the more disconnected they felt. The striving for more had led them away from themselves.
Your empire won’t love you back.
They’d focused so much on external metrics that they’d neglected what was happening inside. The result was disconnection. From their work. From themselves.
I share this not to discourage ambition. But to name what’s true: this disconnection can happen at any stage. Any income level.
This is an epidemic facing entrepreneurs.
Everyone looking outward for answers. Losing sight of what’s happening inside.
This disconnect between our external pursuits and our inner experience can lead to a sense of dissatisfaction and unfulfillment. We may achieve our goals, but if they are not aligned with our deeper purpose and values, then our success can feel hollow and meaningless.
“The Golden Handcuffs”
Golden Handcuffs: the expectations, pressures, and obligations that bind you to a path that isn’t yours.
These handcuffs look different at every stage:
For some, it's the pressure to finally make money
For others, it's maintaining the success they've built
For many, it's living up to others' expectations of what "success" should look like
We get so focused on external markers, revenue, customers, recognition, that we lose our inner compass. We forget why we started.
Trapped in perpetual striving. Always chasing the next milestone. Never pausing.
The irony is, the more we achieve, the tighter the Golden Handcuffs become.
Work doesn’t have to feel like this. At any level.
Breaking free requires self-awareness. It requires challenging conventional definitions of success. And it requires working on what’s happening inside, not just what’s happening in the business.
It’s about building a business that’s profitable and sustainable without destroying you in the process. Clear on what you offer. Visible in a way that feels right. Attracting clients who value your work.
And most importantly, it's about recognizing that our worth is not defined by our achievements, but by who we are becoming.
Continue to Part IV ↑
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