“A good story… nothing in the world more dangerous, don’t you think?”
~ The Old Man ~
Can you imagine living in personal and professional stories that you have mostly written yourself?
The quests or adventures you would take or lead,
and the ones you would have escaped…
The superpowers you would use daily,
and the kryptonite you would have turned into strength…
The characters you would gather around you,
and the ones you would have left in previous chapters…
What you would all achieve together,
and who would benefit most…
And how does that story differ from the one you’re living today?
If you’re like many of the helping-and-world-changing types I meet,
your story probably looks and feels more like this one…
You’re giving your all to change your corner of the world,
only to see your time, energy, and efforts being undermined.
Maybe it’s a kinda-pushy coach who tells you
what to think, feel, and do differently
if you want to make more impact and income…
Or a colleague who is obviously stealing your
words, phrases, content, or even whole approaches.
Perhaps it’s a boss who dismisses you,
or a colleague who takes credit.
Willful blindness or total incompetence.
Artful manipulation or outright deception.
Power trips and responsibility refusals.
It might be dysfunctional individuals or even systems and protocols,
but the fall-out always seems to lead to
individuals like you and the people you’re trying to serve
losing opportunities for more agency, resilience, impact, and even income.
Are you over it?
Totally exhausted? A little (or a lot) angry?
Hurling toward burnout and resentment…
and even despair that people are suffering unnecessarily?
Does the idea of changing the story
feel completely impossible and overwhelming?
After seeing a few folks from my past beginning to use words, phrases, content, and even whole approaches that look oh-so-familiar to me this last year, I am restarting a project I left on the shelf years ago—one with the aim to put a stop to the shenanigans (conscious and unconscious) that have compounded and created trauma for good people learning how to make a difference in the world without sacrificing their sanity or souls.
The amount of times I’ve experienced and heard stories of the thieving (content, clients, businesses, and more) and traumatizing (selling but not delivering, calling pure instinct a fear of success, gaslighting, etc.) that goes on in an industry that wears the labels of “development” and “empowerment”—well, you just wouldn’t believe them…
Or maybe you would…
Maybe it’s happened to you too?
And after working with messengers from dozens of industries, I am certain the Messenger Industry is not the only one that needs to change.
But what can be done? Where would we even start?
Welcome to the...
The Story Revolution
If you are sick and tired of witnessing the same stories on repeat in your personal or professional life—watching good folks being crushed by processes and products that put profit before people…
If you’re ready to reclaim your fire and freedom inside of your family or workplace stories and systems, and catalyze real sustainable change without unnecessary sacrifice…
Join us!
Share your story. Save your story. Shift OUR story.
When you sign up below, you’ll receive a series of emails in which I focus on exposing some of the shenanigans in the Personal and Professional Development Industries—the 5 Reasons to Wake Up (from The Self-development Matrix)—and then sharing insights from personal experiences and even some prompts and tools to help you avoid the pitfalls in 5 Reasons to Revolutionize (and Play the Story-saving Game).
And when I’m done sharing about the Personal and Professional Development Industries, you’ll begin to hear from several of my partners, colleagues, and even former clients who have been figuring out how to survive in and eventually shift the systems in which they are working.
If you’re interested in doing more than reading, make sure to click on your interest level.
If you’re not quite sure, I’d invite you to read the next several emails that land in your inbox and see if you’d like to become a Story Revolutionary.
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