Substack Creators I'm Grateful For This Year

Every single person listed here is a good value for your attention.

This is a Thanksgiving post.

I tried listing everyone who’s shaped this work over the past year. The list got unwieldy fast. So here’s an incomplete record of people who’ve made a real difference as we’ve built Sacred Business Flow.

Teachers & Collaborators

Billy Broas

helped us finish the Sacred Business Manifesto and has remained a steadfast supporter since then. His new moral marketing framework is worth a look too…

Filip Sardi 🌊

has been supporting us through his Client Flow Intensive. Just in the last month, we’ve had some significant breakthroughs in our program delivery model for 2026, and onboarding our happiness activation concierge,

Vanessa Estanoso

to help support the needs of our clients.

Ry Schwartz, who goes by

Hendrix Black

here on Substack, taught me pretty much everything I know about copywriting during our time working together in our past company. The man knows how words actually work. For those of you who know, you know. He’s sort of a secret weapon :)

Jonathan Fields

remains an ongoing inspiration. I hold his work in extremely high regard, and he gives me a goalpost to aim for (still have a LOT of room to grow here). His recent post about working with his hands made me stop and think for a while. There’s always been something in what he’s built that I aspire to.

Elena Brower

has been both inspiration and support for Carolina and I. Our Sacred Business Stories interview that we did with her earlier in the year still is one of the most popular with our audience to date. She simply gets it. And her book, Hold Nothing just came out about a week ago and is worth checking out.

Leo Babauta

trusted me to support his vision for almost three years prior to my decision to create Sacred Business Flow. That kind of trust doesn’t come easy. I don’t take it for granted. His mission in this world still occupies a special place in my heart, and I’m forever grateful for his belief in me.

The whole team at

Write • Build • Scale

for continuing to produce high-quality content around how to make the best use of Substack as a platform.

We’re excited to host

Jari Roomer

on Sacred Business Stories next week, and for some deeper collaborations we have planned as we get closer to the new year.

Landon Poburan

paved the way for what we’re doing on Substack. He was the first person who showed me what was possible here.

Ruben Hassid

and

Michael Simmons

for being my top sources for everything AI and trying to stay ahead of the curve. They both produce consistent, high-quality content.

Tom Orbach

sends weekly marketing drops that I actually read. That’s rare. Most marketing newsletters end up deleted. His don’t. In fact, it might be one of the last ones I still subscribe to.

Dr. Kelly Flanagan

is someone we got to know just a little bit through Sacred Business Stories, but we absolutely admire his message and hope to collaborate more with him in the future. Definitely check out Less Triggered Tribe.

It was a nice surprise when

Ryan Levesque

agreed to an interview earlier this year and not only was it an awesome conversation, he connected us with two remarkable men from his dad’s group who also became great guests on the show. That includes Kelly and

Matt Sprang

. Grateful for the connection with these fine humans.

The Community

Everyone who’s appeared on Sacred Business Stories: Thank you for showing up. Thank you for sharing your work and your gifts. The willingness to be seen is its own act of courage.

Members of the Sacred Growth Club and our private clients: You’re bringing healing and genuine love into the world. Carolina and I get to witness it. That’s a privilege.

A few creators from our community worth following:

Josh Woll

,

Maria Gehrke

,

Rachel Connor

,

Marc Engel

,

Joey Clifton

,

Jane Riccobono

,

Inge van de Graaf

,

Andrew David Shiller, MD

,

Edward Zaydelman

A Note

I couldn’t list everyone. Some people shaped this work in ways they don’t even know. Conversations at odd hours. Ideas shared in passing. Small gestures that stuck.

And if you took the time to read this, I sincerely am grateful for you too. Thank you for being a meaningful part of this story.