Part V: What We Discovered
(The Sacred Business Manifesto Part V)
When I found myself with a golf ball-sized tumor in my neck and 50/50 odds of cancer, I was at the lowest point of my life.
I was certain I was dying. After a decade of declining health, it made sense.
I couldn’t see that this belief was the real problem.
But facing death made me desperate for meaning. I needed to figure out what my life had been for.
Sometimes our biggest challenges become our greatest teachers.
The same drive that had been destroying me became useful. I channeled it toward finding a solution.
I decided to stop building from fear. To create something guided by purpose instead of grinding for dollars.
I started working with authors, teachers, and guides who had figured out how to build businesses without destroying themselves. They were living proof that everything is connected.
What I discovered changed everything—not just my business model, but my entire understanding of success.
I had met
at a Good Life Project event. He inspired me with his This Epic Life Manifesto and how he embodied living as a yogi while fully participating in modern business. KC became a friend and client.KC introduced me to Jonathan Fields, who was running a seven-figure business while living a life full of energy and meaning. I later helped him launch the Sparktypes framework. His book became a #1 bestseller. From Jonathan, I saw it was possible to drive real business growth and financial abundance while serving a mission that mattered.
I learned you could honor what you actually wanted to build and still create freedom and income.
I’d followed Leo Babauta’s work at Zen Habits for years. Eventually we collaborated for three years to bring his Fearless Training Methods to the world. Leo had a genuine connection to something deeper. His ability to weave simplicity into business while building a readership of over 2 million was inspiring.
His entire business was built on connection and service. He also had a level of discipline that, at the time, felt out of reach for me.
These weren’t just successful entrepreneurs. They were proof you could build a thriving business without sacrificing yourself.
There have been many others. But these three shifted my understanding of what was possible.
Carolina's breakthrough
Around the same time, Carolina was arriving at the same understanding. After years of failed solutions for her headaches, her mother introduced her to bioenergetics.
One day, her mother called her and said, "Hey, I'm learning this new thing called bioenergetics; I think it will be helpful for your head!"
Carolina was skeptical. She’d tried everything. But she stayed open. Her first session happened when her mother visited Canada.
During the session, her mother touched seemingly random points on her body. Not her head.
Right after, she felt like her head might explode. She went to bed early. The headaches continued through the night. Eventually, she fell asleep.
Then something shifted. She woke up headache-free. She couldn’t explain it.
Days passed. The usual triggers didn’t trigger anything.
Bioenergetics completely healed her headaches after years of suffering.
After years of searching for answers in all the conventional places, the solution came from understanding a simple truth: everything is connected.
Curious about what had happened, Carolina started studying bioenergetics herself in 2017.
She traveled to Brazil on weekends to study with her mother’s teacher.
Bioenergetics is based on a simple principle: mind and body are connected. Work with that connection and you can release physical and emotional tension.
The technique was developed by a chiropractor, Dr. M.T. Morter, Jr., over 45 years ago. He wanted to understand why physical adjustments would work temporarily but the body would return to old patterns. He discovered that stress and unresolved emotions create energy blocks that short-circuit the body’s systems.
Stress and unresolved emotions create blocks in the body. Bioenergetics dissolves them at the root.
As Carolina became a master practitioner, she started creating a different life for herself.
Instead of drifting, she got intentional. She started asking herself a question she now asks every client:
"If I had the life of my dreams, what would it be?"
That question started creating experiences she would have considered impossible a few years earlier.
It works whether you’re chasing your first client or your next million.
Working with clients, she saw the connections clearly. Back pain tied to relationship trouble. Physical symptoms tied to emotional stress.
As she treated their bodies, their life circumstances improved too. Relationships. Work. Everything connected.
This is the principle we've built our entire approach on: When you address the root patterns, everything shifts.
We try to fix one area, business, health, relationships, in isolation. But when you address the root pattern, every area shifts.
Changes happen faster than when you’re only treating symptoms.
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