I recorded a new video invitation for Conscious Growth Club Year 10.
Instead of walking through every feature or detail, I wanted to share more of the heart of CGC – what kind of space it is, why I continue tending it with so much care, and what I especially want to emphasize for this next year.
CGC is a high-trust, participatory self-development community for growth-oriented people who want more than ideas, insights, or solo reflection. It’s a place for turning inner growth into lived experience – with real support, honest connection, exploration, creativity, pleasure, belonging, and meaningful shifts in your actual life.
In the video, I talk about CGC as a collection of permission containers – spaces where people can open up more honestly, explore deeper layers of themselves, and receive caring human intelligence from others who genuinely want to help.
This year’s pulse is about landing more of that growth into life.
Less circling. More improvement.
Less forcing. More harmony and flow.
Less doing everything alone. More support, connection, and real human warmth.
I also share more about the heartspace of CGC – the intimacy, trust, friendship, encouragement, exploration, pleasure, creative flow, and identity expansion that can happen when growth is supported inside a caring community instead of being processed only in private.
If you’ve been considering CGC, this video should give you a clearer feel for the kind of space you’d be entering.
The deadline to join CGC Year 10 is tomorrow: Thursday, May 7 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Your membership begins as soon as you join and continues through April 30, 2027.
Synchronize is our monthly orienting call where we check in with the current pulse of the group. What are people moving through? What kind of support would help this month?
Today’s call also gave me a clearer sense of what wants to happen in CGC this year – not as a rigid plan, but as an evolving direction.
Some of the words and themes that came up were:
connection belonging intimacy action momentum relationship ease rest integration calm openness experimentation wonder surprise courage trust devotion creative flow sharing the half-baked stuff sharing more of our real journeys
That provides some nice clarity about how the CGC Year 10 energy is opening for us.
It also helped clarify the kinds of people we’d love to invite into CGC this year.
Not everyone. CGC has never been meant for everyone.
But if this kind of space would genuinely support you, I’d love for you to recognize yourself more clearly in the invitation.
A Year of Connection and Belonging
One of the strongest intentions for CGC Year 10 is to help the group become an even stronger space for real connection and belonging.
A lot of people are doing plenty of inner work these days.
They’re reading. Journaling. Watching videos. Listening to podcasts. Thinking about their patterns. Trying to improve their habits. Trying to understand themselves.
That can all be useful.
But there’s a certain kind of growth that doesn’t really activate until you bring your actual self into relationship with other self-aware, growth-oriented, action-taking people.
Not your polished self. Not your “here’s my impressive update” self. Not your “I’ve already figured this out” self.
Your real self – the part of you that is still experimenting. Still sensing what wants to change. Still learning how to trust your own deeper signals.
That’s one of the things we want CGC to support more strongly this year: people being able to show up in a real way, while they’re still in motion.
You don’t have to arrive fully formed – it’s actually better if you don’t.
Fully formed people are usually either done growing or pretending.
More Action, Less Solo Circling
Another strong theme from today’s Synchronize call was action.
Not frantic action. Not grinding. Not chasing. Not hustling harder until your heart feels like it’s trapped in a cage.
More like: let’s stop circling the same things alone.
Let’s bring the stuck points into the room.
The decision you keep postponing. The relationship pattern that needs attention. The creative project that keeps almost becoming real. The part of life that feels cluttered, heavy, vague, or unfinished. The invitation you keep not sending. The body signal you keep ignoring. The truth you keep nibbling instead of claiming.
CGC works best when people bring what’s actually happening.
A decision. A desire. A transition. A stuck place. A longing. A half-baked idea. A request for support.
Then we can work with it together.
One intention for Year 10 is to help the club become a better bridge from insight to lived movement.
Not just more self-awareness.
More like:
I had the conversation. I made the request. I cleared the old thing. I rested to replenish my energy. I reached out. I started the project. I stopped pretending that old path still fits. I let myself be seen. I let life help me more. I completed. I cleared. I released.
That’s the kind of progress I love seeing in CGC.
Sometimes it’s big and dramatic. Sometimes it’s beautifully simple. Both count.
Creative, Open-Hearted, Relational People
We’d especially love to welcome more people this year who are creative, open-hearted, socially warm, and willing to experiment with life.
By creative, I don’t necessarily mean professional artists, although we always have some of those in CGC each year.
I mean people who relate to life as something they’re actively shaping.
Writers, artists, entrepreneurs, coaches, weirdly brilliant nerds, intuitive explorers, relationship builders, community-minded people, project starters, experience designers, sensitive humans with unusual inner worlds – yes, please… more of these people.
People who have ideas they haven’t fully landed yet.
People who want to publish something, build something, host something, heal something, explore something, simplify something, or open a new doorway in life.
People who are willing to say:
“This isn’t finished yet, but here’s where I am.”
That kind of honesty is powerful in our group, and the group energy is especially good at helping such people move into meaningful next steps.
This gives other people permission to be real too. One person’s progress often inspires others to move into action.
I’d rather be in a room with sincere half-baked liveliness than polished pretense. CGC is a club where energy loves to move into action, not just circulate in possibility space. And given the recent Spirit Airlines news, there’s a timely reminder here: spirit is wonderful, but the quality of the journey matters too – and eventually, the plane needs to land.
A Healthier Relationship With Support
A lot of thoughtful people are oddly bad at receiving support.
They can be very good at helping others. Very good at thinking. Very good at coping. Very good at being self-sufficient.
But self-sufficiency can quietly become isolation.
One of my intentions for CGC Year 10 is to normalize receiving more support.
Bring the thing you need help with.
Bring the part that feels unclear.
Bring the place where you’d love perspective, encouragement, mirroring, truth, warmth, or a nudge.
This doesn’t mean we turn CGC into a therapy space. It isn’t that.
It’s a growth club. A live, relational, participatory space. A place for adults who are willing to engage with honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and care.
But it does mean you don’t have to keep pretending that your life is a solo engineering project.
Humans need supportive rooms.
Humans need honest mirrors.
Humans need other humans who can say, “Yes, I get that,” or “Have you considered this?” or “That sounds like the old pattern talking,” or “I think you already know what you want here.”
That kind of support can change the direction of a whole month – and sometimes a whole life. People often become bolder and braver when they have a rock-solid base of social support. They take more action. They hesitate less. They trust themselves more.
Stretch, But Don’t Strain
Another intention for this year is to keep CGC stretchy but humane.
I want people to grow. I want people to experiment. I want people to become braver, warmer, more expressive, more honest, and more alive.
But I don’t want the group field to feel like pressure.
A good growth space should help people breathe.
This year I want CGC to hold a healthy range:
Support when life feels messy and you don’t want to sort through it alone.
Flow when your energy is scattered and you want to turn insight into forward motion.
Release when something is complete, stale, heavy, or ready to leave your life.
Embody when you’ve been too much in your head and your body wants a vote.
Touch when relationships, friendship, trust, or real human contact need more care.
Wonder when the world feels too narrow and possibility wants to open again.
Play when life has become too serious and delight needs a place to land.
Connect when you want warmth, belonging, laughter, and deeper connection with your fellow CGCers.
Synchronize when we want to sense the month together and choose a shared direction.
That’s the new rhythm of CGC Year 10.
It’s not a rigid curriculum. It’s a living structure.
We’ll keep listening to what people are actually moving through, and we’ll shape the flow accordingly.
Who Will Probably Feel at Home Here
You may be a strong match for CGC Year 10 if you want more connection, support, honesty, and aliveness in your life.
You’ll probably feel at home if you’re willing to show up live, be on camera, and participate in good faith.
You’ll probably fit well if you like thoughtful people, warm conversation, personal growth, experimentation, emotional honesty, practical movement, curiosity, and a bit of wonder.
You don’t have to be extroverted.
You don’t have to be perfectly confident.
You don’t have to have your life neatly arranged and color-coded.
But you do need to be willing to bring your real self into the room.
CGC is probably not a fit if you mainly want private content to consume in the background, if you prefer hiding, if you don’t want live interaction, or if you want a rigid step-by-step formula where someone else tells you exactly what to do with your life.
It’s also not a good match for cynical, contemptuous, cruel, or dehumanizing energy.
We’re creating a warm room together.
That means the quality of the people matters.
My Deeper Intention
My deeper intention for CGC Year 10 is simple:
I want CGC to help people stop growing alone and start living more fully – in motion, in connection, and in real life.
More honest conversations. More invitations. More warmth. More courage. More grounded action. More creative experiments. More relational aliveness. More support that actually fits what people are moving through now.
I want CGC to be a place where people can bring their lives into the room and feel something shift because they did.
Not every call needs to be profound.
Some calls may be playful. Some may be practical. Some may be tender. Some may be surprising. Some may be clarifying in a way that seems small at the time but creates powerful ripples.
That’s real growth.
Not always fireworks. Sometimes it’s a door finally opening because someone had the courage to touch the handle and ponder, “What if?”
Join Us for CGC Year 10
Enrollment for Conscious Growth Club Year 10 is open now, and it closes Thursday, May 7 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
This is our only opening for new members this year, so if CGC feels aligned, this is the window to join us. After enrollment closes, the next planned opening won’t be until April 2027.
This new CGC year runs from May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027, and your membership begins as soon as you join.
If this feels like the kind of space you’ve been wanting – more honest, more alive, more connected, more supportive, and more worth showing up for – you’re warmly invited to join us.
If you’ve been craving a place where growth feels more relational, honest, and alive, this may be your year to join us inside.
CGC is our private, growth-oriented community for people who want more honesty, courage, support, connection, and meaningful forward movement in their lives – not as some kind of self-improvement grind, but as a richer way to live.
We’re beginning our 10th CGC year on May 1st, and you’re warmly invited to join us.
If you’ve been craving a more grounded and supportive space for your personal growth journey, this may be a very good year to come in.
CGC is especially for people who want to keep growing, but who don’t want to do it alone or only through passive learning. It’s a live, interactive, human space where members bring real life into the room – goals, transitions, stuck points, creative projects, relationship challenges, lifestyle shifts, health intentions, business questions, emotional patterns, and those strange “I know something needs to change, but I don’t know what yet” moments.
That kind of growth is much easier when you have a room of thoughtful, caring, self-aware people to explore with.
A lot of people try to navigate their growth with too much isolation. They read books, watch videos, journal, think, plan, and chat with AI now and then. Those can all be useful, but at some point the inner work often needs a real human relational space to deepen and advance.
It helps to be seen and acknowledged by like-hearted people.
It helps to hear how other people are navigating similar challenges.
It helps to share what’s really going on without having to polish it first.
It helps to be welcomed and received as a vibrant member of a rich social community.
It helps to be in a space where growth is normal – where people aren’t shocked that you’re rethinking your work, your relationships, your habits, your identity, your emotional patterns, your lifestyle, or your whole relationship with life.
That’s a big part of what CGC provides. What’s unusual in the outside world – conscious growth – is totally normal in our space.
CGC is not a therapy group. It’s not a social media group. It’s not a pile of static content. It’s a live community and growth environment with a strong emphasis on participation, connection, honesty, and practical support.
During Year 10, we’ll have several dozen live Zoom calls together, mostly around 90 minutes each. These calls are designed to help members reflect, connect, get unstuck, clarify intentions, share progress, explore meaningful questions, and keep translating insight into real-life movement.
We’ll also continue using our private member forums and CGC portal, so you can stay connected between calls, access courses and resources, and participate at your own pace.
What I especially love about CGC is the range of what members bring into the space. One person may be navigating a career transition. Another may be working on health or fitness. Someone else may be deepening their relationship life, exploring a creative project, or trying to bring more courage and truth into their daily decisions.
The common thread is not that everyone has the same goals.
The common thread is willingness.
Willingness to tell the truth.
Willingness to keep growing.
Willingness to participate.
Willingness to be seen.
Willingness to support others while also receiving support.
That makes a big difference.
CGC tends to work best for people who already have some self-development experience and who are ready for a more interactive, higher-trust environment. You don’t need to be perfect, polished, or constantly productive. You don’t need to have your whole life figured out. But you do need to be willing to show up honestly and engage with the room.
This year we’re making CGC feel even more practical, relational, and alive – with more emphasis on translating meaningful intentions into daily life. More real support. More personalized engagement. More warmth. More meaningful connection. More growth that actually impacts daily life and results.
If that sounds good to you, please take a look at the invitation page here:
Enrollment is open now and closes May 7th at 11:59 PM Pacific time.
CGC Year 10 officially begins May 1st and runs through April 30, 2027. When you join, you’ll get access right away, so you can begin exploring the member portal and community space before the new CGC year begins.
The price is $3333 for new members and for returning past members.
If you’re a renewing member, your renewal price is $1111.
If you feel a clear yes, I’d love to welcome you into the room for Year 10.
And if you read the invitation page and sense that it’s not your space, that’s perfectly okay too. CGC is intentionally not for everyone. It works best when people self-select honestly. That honest self-selection has worked really well for us, helping to create a community of members who want the full, rich, consciously engaged experience.
If some part of you has been wanting a more alive, honest, supportive growth environment – a place where you can keep evolving with thoughtful people who actually care – then I encourage you to listen to that signal.
I recorded this new video today from the heart – one take, no cuts. If your life looks okay on the outside but feels off, hollow, uncertain, or disharmonious on the inside, this might speak to you.
If it resonates, you can learn more about Open here:
This is a new, in-person, 3-day experience we’re hosting April 28–30, 2026 in Las Vegas. I’ve been sharing about this for the past few weeks, and now the doors are open, so you can see the full details and sign up if you feel called to join us.
Open isn’t a content-based experience. It’s a shared inner journey focused on harmonizing your relationship with yourself and with Life.
Open is in-person only – not recorded or streamed. We’re prioritizing intimacy.
Registration just opened, and the event begins in two weeks, so this is a short window. The reasons why are shared in the full invitation:
I’ve advanced the design and shaping of the new Open event (April 28-30, 2026 in Las Vegas), so I can share more about it now. Let me tell you the event’s core focus and purpose.
The magnetic core of Open is very simple. It’s harmony.
Inner harmony within yourself. Outer harmony with your reality.
That’s a big ask in today’s world, is it not?
Harmony Made Real
During my 20s I discovered how easy it was to unbalance my life by elevating certain pursuits at the expense of others, such as by overworking and under-playing.
Freedom, growth, and creativity mattered to me a great deal, so I spent years figuring out how to live in alignment with these values. Now that I’m in my 50s (about to turn 55 this month), I feel very grateful that my younger self put in the effort to make this work on a practical level. It wasn’t easy but it was doable.
Another challenge was figuring out how to attune to abundance and resourcefulness. That was a nice success that harmonized well with my other priorities. Eventually I created the Deep Abundance Integration course to guide people through a 30-day deep dive on that. It’s been rewarding to watch people go through this kind of shift, which really isn’t about money – it’s about whether we’re ready to trust life more. Abundance is something we receive as a gift from life when we’re ready for it, not something we need to chase.
One of the most beautiful gains was infusing my life with lots of love. My wife Rachelle and I have been together 16+ years now, and we’re very much in love with each other. Our wedding anniversary is tomorrow. I’ve had the good fortune of spending most of my adult life in two very loving, long-term relationships. My first marriage ended many years ago, but I never stopped harmonizing with love.
Lately I’ve been practicing loving everyone. A powerful realization was that I don’t need anyone’s permission to love them. I can feel love in any direction I want, and it turns out that harmonizing with love in lots of different directions has been really good and healthy for me.
I also worked on harmonizing with growth, pleasure, play, wonder, embodiment, exploration, contribution, and more. Inviting everything to come in together was even more helpful than trying to do it piecemeal. Ask for it all.
This vibes-first approach has served me well for decades. To this day I still find it crucial to run my life by making vibrational decisions first, such as by choosing cooperation over competition or by choosing intelligence over disappointment. That works so well across all areas of life. The net result is a very satisfying, pleasing, and pleasurable life.
If this were impractical, I expect my life would have fallen apart many years ago, but it’s been the opposite. In recent years the harmony has grown even stronger and deeper. This wasn’t entirely of my doing on a personal level. Much of it came through as a series of gifts, each arriving when I was ready to receive it.
As I worked on harmonizing different areas of my life even more, I found that this harmonizing process began taking on a life of its own. I sensed a deeper intelligence working cooperatively with me. I created the Submersion course to help others explore this way of engaging with life too.
This isn’t about working harder or pushing more. My life is the opposite of hustle culture. I enjoy plenty of stimulating action, but this is harmoniously balanced with other vibes that support my best life as well. Rachelle and I started this week by getting massages first thing on Monday morning, so we began our workweek with relaxation and pleasure. Then we hosted a Zoom call together in Conscious Growth Club – about the intelligence of embodiment. See how nicely that fits?
What opens up the flow of such gifts from life? What invites greater harmony to surface? There are many answers to this, but one of those keys is trust.
In order to really trust this reality, we have to trust that reality is intelligent, not just random, chaotic, or rules-based. And then as we trust that reality is intelligent, another big question is how to engage with this intelligence and harmonize with it. That’s been a huge part of my life journey for many years. This awareness is infused into how I live every day now. Each day, multiple times a day, I seek to orient to this intelligence and engage with it cooperatively. And I dare say that it’s been taking really good care of me lately.
The Limits of Personal Effort
A while back I discovered that there’s a limit as to how harmonious my life could become through personal effort. I sense that’s because effort itself tends to be disharmonious. If we try too hard to harmonize with life, that eventually becomes counter-productive. Hence if we really want to create and live truly harmonious lives in cooperation with life’s intelligence, there comes a point where we must relinquish effort. This involves letting go and releasing whatever prevents us from receiving more gifts. I’ve had a lot of lessons about letting go of old limits.
At some point, greater harmony asks for relaxation, trust, receptivity, and surrender into a deeper organizing intelligence. I would not call this a leap of faith. For me it’s been a journey of sensing and attuning. The next steps reveal themselves as I’m ready for them.
In recent years I’ve especially been paying attention to when life seems to be inviting me to experience or explore something new or to engage with reality differently. And wow does it do that a lot. I just had to open myself to notice this more.
I couldn’t have engineered my relationship with Rachelle into being. I would not have asked for a long-distance, international relationship with a Canadian. No dating app would have brought this through. This relationship has been such a huge gift. Every day it’s a gift. We’re so very good for each other – so much love, caring, passion, fun, affection, adventure, laughter, and more. We are each other’s best friends too. I love being married to my best friend.
My life has been awash in daily “I love you’s” for many years now, not just literally but also energetically. I feel so richly supported by life. And I must admit that a lot of this wasn’t of my doing, at least not in terms of pursuing and achieving goals like you might see someone do in a movie.
So many of the great turning points in my life happened by way of invitation. I couldn’t always pinpoint what specifically triggered these invites to come through other than to acknowledge that they showed up when I was receptive enough and ready to receive them.
I see a spine of upgrades throughout my life taking the form of invitations coming through at the right times. An invitation to go to an event. To join a group. To do my first ayahuasca ceremony. Sometimes it took courage to say yes, and I was richly rewarded when I leaned in and trusted life more. Part of me could sense when an invitation was important for my life path.
Some invitations were internal. I felt an inner sense of wonder about something new, leaned in with some exploration, and gave it room to breathe. What would it be like to spend 30 days in a row going to Disneyland? To have loving sex every day for four months? To feel an urge to travel and be on a plane within a day or two? Such experiences are wonderful and also mind-blowing. They reveal so much.
Now I understand that I can simply let life say “I love you” without my having to earn it. That’s a frequency of beingness that we can allow to come into our lives when we’re ready for it. This is where much greater harmonies start to emerge, whereby each aspect of life begins to fit together like puzzle pieces.
Even when I see parts of the outer world delving into what looks chaotic, I still see the intelligence flowing through it. This life is a place of exploration and lots of lessons, and we’re all engaging with different aspects of it. It’s all meaningful.
As I see people exploring very different frequency ranges, I feel increasingly clear about my own – a path infused with love, harmony, intelligence, cooperation, and delight.
Your Invitation to Open
Open is a space designed to support the emergence of greater harmony in your life. It’s a space of inviting, allowing, and receiving. At Open you’ll be guided through a sequence of containers to help you open to the flow of life’s intelligent cooperation and support. Inside each of these containers, I’ll take you through a unique inner journey of reflective exercises and experiences to help you align your life with greater harmony and intelligence.
The field of Open is intentionally shaped to help you notice disharmonies, release friction, and come into a more harmonious relationship with yourself, with other people, and with life.
Imagine being in a room where everyone holds the intention and desire to make their lives – as well as the lives of everyone else there – more harmonious. It’s a really beautiful space to inhabit, a space of receptivity, positive anticipation, and delightful and intelligent gifts from the flow of life’s intelligence.
I feel very ready to serve as a guide into this way of engaging with life for those who are open to receiving it. I’ve been receiving clear signals that the time is right to put out this invitation. For now, sense what this awakens in you. Some doors don’t open through force. They open through readiness.
On April 28-30 we’re hosting our first live, in-person gathering in 10 years. Yes, it really has been that long.
I’ve been wanting to re-infuse live events back into this space for years now. We almost got back into this several years ago… then COVID. So I waited for the timing to feel right. I told Reality to let me know, and it did. Now I know the time is right to start sharing about this. It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that today is the first day of Spring. It’s been a wondrous journey to reach this point.
The event is called Open.
Super simple. Just Open.
Open is a space where we gather in person, connect (or reconnect for those who’ve gathered before), and immerse ourselves in a deep inner journey over three days together.
Open is very yin. Gentle. Receptive. Warm. Loving. Kind. Generous. Rejuvenating. Spacious.
Open is where you come to open.
Open to new possibilities. To a new relationship with life. To new friends.
Open to a life of wonder, harmony, and intelligence. Open to centeredness. Open to flow. Open to balance. Open to pleasure. Open to delight. Open to ease.
Whether you come to Open from a place of desperation, perspiration, or inspiration, you’ll be met with open-hearted kindness.
Yintelligence
Open is a space of emergence, revelation, and discovery. It’s a fusion of many different energies with a common theme.
Open is where you birth your answer to this one simple question: What next?
What wants to arise next in your life? What wants to emerge into full bloom? What wants to loosen, ease, and release?
What energies want to circulate richly through your life? Which ones are ready to be flushed?
Who are you becoming? What’s your next chapter? What wants to crystallize? What is your life about now?
Open has many facets to it, all of them oriented toward deeper self-discovery and inner harmony. The core of Open is a field of intelligence that we create and work within together.
I’ll be your guide and host. Rachelle will be there too.
Open Energies
These are the main energies we’ll be working with at Open:
Wonder & Receive
Orient & Center
Sense & Open
Loosen & Ease
Circulate & Rejuvenate
Invite & Allow
Arise & Emerge
Clarify & Crystallize
Integrate & Advance
We’ll be working intimately with these energies throughout Open, stepping in and out of them as we go. They’re infused into Open in fractal ways.
Open is here to help you connect the dots from your highest vibrational decisions to your daily actions. Harmonize your human life with the vibes that are most you.
Some Details
Open is happening in Las Vegas, April 28-30, 2026. That’s Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Open is entirely new. It has never existed before. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience.
Open is only in-person, not streaming or recorded. It’s meant to be a space of some intimacy.
Open welcomes all who feel called to attend. It’s $888 USD.
Once the venue agreement is settled and signed, I’ll happily share the specific location details. For now I’ll just say that we’ll be on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the days ahead, I’ll share more details and open sign-ups. I’ll also be writing and posting new articles and videos on themes we’ll be exploring together there. There’s plenty of time to decide, so for now just sit with this initial invitation and let yourself sense and feel out what wants to emerge next for you.
Open begins in 39 days. More than enough time to feel your way into it.
I invite you to open to the possibility of being in the room with us at Open. Let this fully emerge into your reality if it’s meant to be. You may have some surprises ahead.
Today (May 1st) is the final day to decide to join us for Year 9 in Conscious Growth Club, and I felt inspired to share some insights about where I see the club flowing in Year 9 and beyond.
Every year the club evolves. This transition from Year 8 to Year 9 is a big advancement with some very powerful shifts opening up.
Leadership Dojo
Many members in CGC have been evolving in the direction of leadership. This has been showing up differently for everyone, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the stale old corporate or hierarchical version of leadership. It’s a much more personal and internal form of leadership. At least that’s where it begins.
This is about leading from within – knowing yourself, standing strong in your core essence, and radiating your light into the world around you, like I shared in this video several months ago: Fill Your Reality With Your Light.
When you step up and take charge of your own life powerful, other people are likely to notice. Those who appreciate similar values to yours will likely feel drawn to you. They’ll be attracted to your centeredness, your resolve, your clarity, and your sense of ease, lightness, and flow. You may end up attracting some sort of following without really trying.
For some members this shows up as a desire to build communities or their own, online or offline. A lot of members have been going through meaningful transformations of their social lives. They no longer feel in tune with their old circles, and it’s important to them to draw more people into their lives who really align with who they are now and who they’re becoming.
One reason this happens is that CGC itself is a model for this kind of social alignment. It’s a community centered around growth, self-development, and truly embodying our best selves. People who value this will find lots of like-minded people inside to connect with. Once they experience how delightful it is to make and have so many friends like this in one place, it can reveal a difficult contrast with their other social circles, which may not feel adequate anymore. Thus begins the journey into assuming more autonomy over one’s social life, and this eventually flows into some kind of leadership experience.
Seeing this aspect of CGC emerging over time has encouraged me to give it more attention and to invite new members into the club who see themselves flowing into an emerging leadership role. So this year I made that a key part of the invite.
That’s yet another reason we don’t invite Trump supporters to join us in CGC. That’s been our policy for years. Trump supporters carry follower vibes by definition. That’s the opposite of our direction in CGC.
There are lots of ways to step into leadership. In CGC we really focus on the inner journey, which involves getting clear about what we want to create and then advancing it into being.
Note that at the beginning of 2017, CGC was just an idea. I began sharing about the idea on my blog back then, inviting people to comment on it and share their feedback. Later that year we opened the doors with an early access phase while we were developing it. Today we’re starting our 9th year together, the club is thriving inside, and we clearly have a bright future together as we continue to advance together. This all began with a decision to step up and make it happen. Many hundreds of other decisions followed – and are still following – as the club continues to evolve.
Relating to People as Their Strong Selves
Since I have a lot of experience watching people grow and seeing how they evolve over time, I often pick up patterns in what’s unfolding for people before they see what’s emerging within themselves. I like to meet people where they are, but I also love to relate to them based on where they appear to be heading.
The better I get to know someone who’s very growth-oriented, the more I can help to hold the vision and the vibes of the stronger and more capable version of them that’s emerging.
For instance, I may interact with someone who’s a bit camera shy, but I can also see that they’re working on it, which may help me see that they’ll eventually get past it altogether. So I can start relating to them as the person they’re becoming, not who they’ve been.
Or I may be talking with a very head-based person, but I can also see they’re making good progress in developing their intuitive side and opening their heart, so I can meet in the the land of emotional expressiveness and keep relating to them as their emerging future self.
Sometimes this surprises people because they’ve never had anyone treat them as the person they’re becoming. Others have usually been treating them as who they’ve been in the past (or some skewed version of that).
I love doing this for people, but it’s definitely best when I get to know someone, so I gain a more specific understanding of where they’re heading.
Holding stronger visions of each other – and for each other – is becoming woven into the fabric of CGC. As more members bear witness to each other’s growth, they’re helping hold those new visions of themselves. That’s really lovely to see.
If you’ve never been in a social circle that holds you in high regard and begins treating you as your stronger and more capable future self, I sense you’d really love and appreciate this aspect of CGC.
Don’t think it’s easy though. The old parts of you may rise up to reject your new self-image – at first – so it can take some time to work through those old limits and release them.
Feeding and Fueling Our Strong Selves
As members have continued to invest in CGC, they’re clearly gotten stronger and more capable. More possibilities are opening up for them. There’s a sense of strength and stability in the core of the club, which is fertile soil for encouraging even more to emerge.
Back in 2018 when I first created the Deep Abundance Integration course, my motivation was largely driven by compassion for people who were struggling with scarcity. I wanted to provide a helpful resource to immerse people in abundance vibes, so they could really lock onto it and transition over, much like I learned to do back in 1999 (the year I went bankrupt).
In the early years of CGC, there was a lot of this helping-people-who-were-struggling mentality in the club too. That fit with the old coaching model, and many coaching calls involved helping people with various forms of stuckness. Today we are way beyond that old mindset and old approach.
Struggles can be endless and cyclical, especially if people keep recreating the same conditions that lead to struggle. Now we’re better at stepping back and inviting those weaker energies to depart, so something stronger and more engaging can emerge.
When this kind of powerful energy surges, many old struggles vanish. Either they become easy to solve because we become stronger, or they’re no longer seen as problems, or we stop creating the conditions that give rise to them. One way or another, CGCers learn to opt out of living in perpetual crisis mode.
Today’s CGC isn’t a good match for people who are mired in distracting problems. It’s a much better fit for people who want to engage with their lives from their core – their strong selves. Then keep building from there.
I like to think of this stronger part of me as my higher self. That’s the version of me that’s fearless, wise, caring, kind, creative, generous, and more. These days my own path of self-development is mainly about coming into greater alignment with this core version of me. I do my best to channel my deepest wellspring of insight and energy into my decisions and actions. That’s been working really well.
Even when I have mundane problems to deal with, I find that I can easily shred them when I’m attuned to my core strengths. Then I can be as patient, methodical, rational, and courageous as needed to solve problems definitively. These kinds of solutions are very satisfying, both during the solution process and afterwards. I know I did my best, so there are no regrets.
This kind of energy is emerging very strongly in the club now. I sense it will be a big part of Year 9 and beyond.
One specific way we’re supporting this energy is with the new Sense & Solve call format that we’re introducing this CGC year. We’re running it the first time on May 15.
High Trust and Intimate Teamwork
CGC is a very kind, intimate, caring group inside. It took some work to get there though, and I’m very protective of this aspect of our culture. In our early years, we attracted some members who were only into self-development for themselves – some prima donna types if you know what I mean. They came to CGC for the content and for their own gains and didn’t participate much in the community aspects, except for their own validation now and then.
We still did our best to serve those members, but I soon realized that we were better off without them. What we do in CGC really is a team effort, and we grow stronger by attracting good team players. So I’ve deliberately positioned the club to make it less palatable to people who aren’t interested in the team aspect.
We’ve come a long way since then, really focusing on attracting more genuine team players and serving them well. CGC has become a space where the givers tend to gain the most. Those who show up and participate and share their growth journeys surely learn a lot more and make bigger strides.
I see us investing even further in this teamwork direction in Year 9 and beyond. That includes involving other members in the live event we’ll be co-creating for April 2026.
All of our calls for Year 9 involve some form of interaction. They’re really not content-based. They’re all designed as group experiences that we share in and create together.
This morning, for example, we had our monthly Intention Infusion call. The call was very well-attended, with lots of members sharing all throughout. This included sharing our individual intentions for the month and also co-creating a group intention. The group intention we chose was limitless vitality, so we’re all pooling our collective intentional energy to intend limitless vitality for each other. This has been a normal rhythm in CGC for the past two years now. Every month we all hold positive intentions for each other’s well-being and advancement.
The core of this community is trust. When people open up and trust more, they tend to thrive in CGC. It’s not like sharing about your life on social media and wondering who will judge you for it.
It usually takes a bit of time for people to get used to a community like this. They come in with their well-developed masks from years of social media engagement. Then they gradually drop those old facades and let us see more of their real selves. That’s where they’re met with so much love, understanding, and connection.
Life really is different when you learn and grow as part of a kind and caring community that has your back. If you don’t get that from CGC, please find some place to get it – a space where you can fully open up and show all parts of the real you and be seen and acknowledged as the beautiful being you are. This includes letting others see your beauty even when you’re not seeing it yet yourself.
This kind of work really lights me up inside. Even after 8 years of serving CGC, I’m still abundantly enthusiastic about it. As I’ve said many times before, this is my forever project. That’s something I learned from Walt Disney because Disneyland was his forever project. The benefit of a forever project is that you have lots of time to keep improving it and optimizing it. You know to be extra thoughtful in making each decision because you’re thinking about how it might ripple out over decades.
Playfulness
I love that we’re so playful in CGC. I really resonate with making self-development lively and fun. I feel we’re landed in a really good range there. We take self-development seriously, and we have serious fun working on it together.
We often crack jokes on the live calls, but we also do our best to keep them light. I really think we bond very well through shared humor. Some members are really great at anchoring humor vibes into the club, and I would love to see even more people like this join us inside because we so appreciate what they bring to the experience.
We already have some great abundance in this area, but I say let’s keep going. Why limit ourselves? Good-natured humor folds really well into our group energy and values.
I sense that this light-hearted playfulness that so many of us share in CGC will be infused into our April 2026 gathering as well, which makes me look forward to it even more.
Range and Variety
I know of no other self-development group that covers as much range and variety as CGC does. We really do cover all aspects of self-development and more.
Take a look at our call types for Year 9. We have 18 different formats now, up from 14 last CGC year. And even within a given format, no two calls are the same. Each call is a unique experience.
In Bear Care we work on boundaries and self-care. In Contribution Café we focus on purpose and service. In Story Lab we use the lens of story to fuse the objective and subjective aspects of our lives into a cohesive plot that’s unfolding. Courage Forge’s theme ought to be pretty obvious. Same goes with Pure Imagination. Mating Call is a new format we’ve added this year to improve our sex lives. And Moonglow is all about receiving and allowing (and not blocking life’s gifts).
I actually drew a significant amount of inspiration from theme parks, particularly Disneyland itself, in designing and evolving CGC’s core structure. I’ve personally spent at least 100 days of my life at Disneyland, including going there with Rachelle for 30 days in a row, six months before we opened CGC. So you can definitely think of CGC as being like a self-development theme park. While our core focus is on self-development, the calls are all designed to be lively, entertaining, and enjoyable as well. I never want the experience for our members to become stale or boring.
The vast majority of our live calls are unrecorded too (only Reflections & Revelations is recorded), so that helps people open up and be more candid as well. I really noticed a positive shift in participation when we shifted from recorded to unrecorded calls a while back. I love that we have so many years to keep tinkering and fine-tuning to discover what works best for our members.
Learning From Each Other’s Growth Journeys
With the CGC forums as part of the experience, there’s even more variety because members can share and discuss anything of interest to them.
I especially love that our discussions and explorations are so focused on helping each other advance. There really isn’t much debating in CGC for the sake of debating. Politics and current events don’t have a big presence in the group. That’s all fair game for discussion, but most CGCers would rather not discuss that sort of thing, especially since they can do that elsewhere on social media all day long if they want.
In CGC the conversations are mainly about personal experiences and explorations as well as how members are figuring out solutions. People discuss their goals, action steps, and their progress a lot. They share the emotional side too, like how life is going and how they’re being affected.
Because we have our own private, members-only spaces, members are a lot more candid, and the shares are often deeper and more detailed than what you’d find elsewhere on the Internet. People share a certain depth in CGC that they wouldn’t trust to Instagram, Facebook, etc.
This is true for me too. While I’ve been very open about my life from 20+ years of blogging and also YouTubing, I share even more depth and detail in CGC. Most of what I share about my ongoing explorations these days is posted in CGC, not outside of it. I just feel drawn to share certain details more with the people I’ve come to know and trust very well. I’m still into sharing openly outside of the group, but with CGC as such a huge part of my life, I don’t feel drawn to share as much outside the club.
I maintain a progress log in the club myself and update it often. It looks like this in the forums and has hundreds of posts. It’s very interactive too since members can ask me anything about the various explorations I’m doing at any given time. Usually I update it multiple times per week. There is so much I’ve shared there that I haven’t shared outside of CGC, such as details about the 3-night ayahuasca ceremony I did in March and how it affected me – it was very powerful.
One experience that’s coming up this month is my first-ever San Pedro ceremony. I’ve never done it before and have been wanting to sit with it for years. I probably won’t blog about it, but I’ll surely share about what it was like in CGC.
Other members maintain progress logs in the club too, and this has consistently been a great way for us to keep tabs on what we’re all doing and how we’re progressing.
A High-Vibe Approach to Self-Development
When I first got into self-development many years ago, my mindset was very objective. I focused on productivity and time management a lot. I thought very algorithmically much of the time, always looking for useful processes and step-by-step approaches. Some of my favorite authors were Brian Tracy and David Allen – both very deliberate and methodical but also immensely head-based.
That was interesting and helpful for some years, but I soon ran into limits with that approach, especially with respect to certain types of goals and lifestyle desires. Some goals just would not budge.
I was able to use that old mindset to have some cool achievements though, such as running a marathon. That was all about showing up, putting in the training time, and being very methodical and tenacious till I crossed the finish line and got my finisher’s medal – done and checked off my bucket list.
But my most interesting breakthroughs did not arise from that type of programmer mindset. For that I really needed to stretch myself to explore more limitless ways of relating to life and reality. I documented that alternative approach very well in the Submersion course, which is based on relating to life far more subjectively. Since then I’ve layered in even more robust and expansive approaches to keep advancing in ways where an overly objective approach falls flat.
I’d say my #1 favorite gift from opening up and pursuing a different self-development path is my relationship with Rachelle. We’ve been together for 15+ years now, married for more than 7 years. She and I host the CGC calls together. I adore her deeply, and I love the life we share together. I also really love that she and I get to serve and support CGC together. We attracted each other from different countries (she’s Canadian) and flowed into a beautiful yet unconventional relationship. I don’t see anyway a relationship like this could have flowed into my life if I’d been stuck in an overly objective mindset. That old limit had to go, so I could open myself to new forms of allowing, inviting, and surrendering.
This type of energy is strongly infused into CGC. I’ve stopped being an apologist about it, and I’ve really gone all-in with a vibrational-first approach – because it works! It takes time for some people to warm up to it, but what keeps them engaged is that this gets results, especially in areas where an objective approach just isn’t moving the needle much.
The objective aspects of life are still important, and objective problem-solving tools are still useful, so we haven’t thrown that out. We do a tremendous amount of fusion in CGC, and that YES-AND approach woven into many of our group calls as well. Our problem-solving methods are part vibrational, part physical. They involve getting into harmony with the solution space and feeling our way into it to ramp up motivation and inspiration. Then we devise practical action steps and flow into them with greater ease.
In recent months I’ve been sharing in the club about using this approach to do various DIY plumbing and electrical projects around the house. I got clear about how I wanted to solve each problem on a vibrational level first, including how I wanted to feel throughout the experience and afterwards. As I locked onto those feelings, I flowing through a compelling action sequence that included watching how-to videos on YouTube, acquiring the needed parts and tools, and doing all the steps to get to completion.
This really taught me a lot about my own best pathways through problems I might otherwise put off. I didn’t want to deal with certain problems because I didn’t understand them well enough, and I didn’t feel very trusting about the prospect of hiring someone to do those projects for me. So I went to the vibe level first and crafted the solution there. For instance, I knew that education could solve the understanding problem, so I resolved to educate myself thoroughly first. I also saw solutions to the trust issue, so I worked through how to find a contractor I could genuinely trust, and I found and hired a fabulous plumber to do some bigger jobs. It all flowed beautifully at the action level once I solved these problems first at the vibrational level.
I can tell this kind of vibrational-physical fusion will be a big part of CGC Year 9 and beyond – again because it works. Problems are much easier to solve when we engage not just our minds but our hearts and spirits as well.
Lightness & Happiness
The energy in some earlier CGC years felt heavier to me. Today it’s a lot lighter feeling inside. There’s more happiness and optimism inside the club these days – and some genuine excitement too, especially since we’re starting a whole new year together starting today.
Years ago, some people were initially drawn to approach CGC like a therapy container – a space for working through unresolved trauma.
I gave it a lot of thought and took concrete steps to move the club well away from that direction. I know this bothered some people, but I’m certain that it was the correct decision. Even back then I knew we needed to move away from that.
I’m not a therapist, and I don’t intend to become one. I really don’t want to meet people in their misery and delve into the ache with them.
I know some great people who do work in the space of trauma, healing, PTSD, etc. Most of them work with plant medicines because that really moves the needle when nothing else will. I’ve seen a tremendous amount of positive changes unfolding for people who need to process and release old trauma.
But that isn’t my path. I know this. I’m not here to serve people while they’re still enmeshed in their trauma. I’m meant to work and live in limitless land. That’s very clear to me.
I’ve done multiple plant medicine journeys where I’ve looked into that space – with ayahuasca, mushrooms, and more – and they all tell me the same thing. I’m not traumatized and never have been, and I’m not here to help people with their trauma. One journey revealed a fun way of framing this, revealing that when I incarnated as a human in this life, I looked at the box to select my trauma for my human character, and I wrote in “Fuck no!” And so that wish was granted.
I’ve had plenty of challenges to deal with in this life, but none have ever traumatized me. That isn’t what I’m here to experience. And it isn’t how I aim to serve.
I am the opposite of traumatized. I’m ridiculously happy, and I thrive when working with other people who are at least pretty happy with their lives, and they want to unfold even more richness.
I work best with people who want to let go of old limits and stretch themselves. They want to grow stronger and become even more capable. They may not be traumatized, but letting go of old limits is still a great challenge, and this is where I most enjoy serving people.
This has also become a big aspect of CGC as well. We’re not here to meet you in your pain. We’re here to help you advance beyond old limits. If you have a lot of unresolved pain to work through first that’s holding you back from even focusing on richer and more expansive forms of self-development, I feel for you, but there are much better teachers and communities that focus on that. I have tremendous respect for them, and I’m friends with some great people in that space, but I definitely don’t aspire to be one of them. I’ve found where I belong and what I’m good at, and I do sense that this is a limit I want to keep because it serves me well, and it opens into a beautiful outlet for serving others very well too.
CGC’s energy is much lighter than what you’d find in trauma-informed spaces. The energy inside is typically very positive, encouraging, optimistic, and expansive. Members are usually very engaged with interesting projects and working on stretching themselves in various ways.
Even when someone is going through a major challenge, they’re met with positive support, not commiseration. This helps people remember their strong selves, which they can use to meet any problem.
Stepping Into Your Limitless Self
Hopefully this run-through gives you a clearer picture of what CGC is like inside now and how we’re continuing to evolve.
I’d say that our limitless vitality intention for May is a good container for our upcoming year in the club as well. This month we’re inviting more energy to flow through our bodies and our lives, so we can enjoy more capacity to investing in what we find most engaging.
If CGC appeals to you, I invite you to join us. There’s still time to come aboard and join us for Year 9 if you sign up today. Otherwise you’ll have to wait till April 2026 for another chance.
I’d recommend perusing the CGC FAQ, and then read through the CGC invite page as you reflect upon the decision (sign-up button is at the bottom of that page.
Lastly, feel free to drop me a message via my contact form if you have any further questions. We always see a lot of people join on the last day – even in the final hours – so I’m used to that!
Here’s an easy-going video about Conscious Growth Club Year 9 to give you a sense of the vibes and direction of the club and to invite you to join us inside. It’s only about 12 minutes, so please give it a watch now because I’m taking it offline when the enrollment ends.
CGC is our core inner self-development circle. It began in 2017 and has been going strong and evolving beautifully ever since. We only open for new members to join us during one short interval each year, always during the last week of April, and this is it! So please check it out and make the correct decision for you by midnight Pacific Time on May 1st. This is our only enrollment period for 2025, so our next opening won’t be till April 2026.
After you watch the video, read through the Conscious Growth Club invite page to see if you’re a match. It’s definitely not for everyone, but for the right people, CGC is a powerful long-term source of growth fuel and support. It transforms self-development from a solo effort to a team effort.
This is a fabulous year to join CGC because we’re having our first-ever CGC in-person gathering during this new CGC year, so we’ll all get to connect in person together for 4 days in Las Vegas in April 2026. I’m really looking forward to that!
This year I posted a very different kind of invitation than ever before. CGC itself is very growth-oriented – a living entity – so it evolves every year. This is another big step forward, so I wanted an invitation that captured its essence well, something that strong matches would resonate with.
Here are some thoughts about the evolution of Year 9.
Building Upon CGC’s Strengths
Year 8 was a truly fabulous year in the club. We’ve had 103 members in the club this year, so there was lots of activity all throughout. We introduced many new types of Zoom calls, bringing the total to 14, so we had more range and variety than ever before. This was also the most interactive year in the club with all kinds of participation. That created some delightful intimacy inside. I got to know many members better than ever this year.
Year 8 was a truly loving, caring, and supportive container inside. That’s super satisfying because it’s hard to develop a community like this. It takes tons of nurturing and also filtering, always being careful to invite the right people in who can help us co-create this kind of field together, so we can all benefit from it.
Rachelle and I can’t do it all by ourselves, and my heart is so filled with joy for how much help and support we’ve received in making this a reality – from the vibrational level all the way down to the practical action steps.
Going into Year 9 then, my attitude wasn’t about fixing things but about flowing with the wonderful momentum we have.
One of my core recent lessons this year has been that even when life is going really well, don’t stop there. Keep growing. Don’t settle for limits because growth is limitless. When life is good, go for great. When it’s great, go for fabulous. When it’s fabulous, go for extraordinary… then for extra-extraordinary.
This was the mindset and heartset I used when crafting Year 9’s invitation.
Deep Reflection
It took a 3-night ayahuasca ceremony last month (intense!) to really drive this home for me. My lessons while sitting with Aya’s energy were all about letting go of old limits and not settling, especially when life is going really well. She reminded me to keep stretching. This includes stretching my imagination to keep discovering more ways to stretch.
Don’t settle for abundance. Don’t settle for love. Don’t settle for caring. Don’t settle for fun. As good as those vibes are, there’s plenty more to experience beyond them. There are even more abundant, more loving, more caring, more playful frequencies of life to tap into. There are no limits.
We as humans may still be dealing with various self-imposed limits and filters, but life itself is not nearly so limited. So even as we release old limits, it’s important to remind ourselves to keep on stretching. This is where some of the most rewarding self-development work unfolds. This also speaks to the kinds of people I want to invite to join us for CGC Year 9 and beyond.
It was during the integration process for that Aya experience that tons of clarity about CGC Year 9 really flowed through, and all the dots began to connect. I’ll share some of those realizations here.
Even More Range
One of CGC’s core strengths is that we have massive range in what we’re able to cover. This isn’t a group just for entrepreneurs, wellness enthusiasts, lifestyle explorers, or online creators. CGC’s expression is like a self-development Disneyland. I love that we can talk about and work on anything in the club. Whatever impacts us is fair game since it’s a part of our journeys. We’re also very playful inside, where advancement is smoothed by approach life as a game much of the time.
Our 14 call formats are now going to be 18 formats for Year 9, which takes our range and variety from major abundance to ultra-major abundance. You can see all the formats listed about halfway down the invite page.
CGC has become a space of stretching, not of limitation. We’re not here to box you in but to invite you to really stretch your self-image much closer to how you imagine your higher self to be. This is a place where your strongest and most vibrant self gets to be nurtured into its fullest expression. It’s a place where we can relate to you as the being you’re becoming, not as your past baggage.
Connecting the Dots From Sensing to Thinking to Acting
At its core, every problem has a vibrational side and a physical side (at least). Solving problems vibrationally first, then physically, is a powerful way to advance. I’ve been sharing this method here and there in the club already, but this year I sensed it would be wise to go big with it.
One new call type we’ve added for Year 9 is called “Sense & Solve.” This is where we’ll get extra practice solving problems harmoniously, so that the practical solution not only works, but it feels very satisfying too.
I’ve been getting a lot of traction in using this approach across multiple areas of life. It’s been especially useful for stuck areas where projects were stagnant and not progressing. Earlier this year I completed some projects that had been stagnant for years, and I did them with a great sense of ease and flow. Because I paid attention to the vibrational side first, the physical solutions were very aligned with how I wanted to feel. Some of these were relatively simple problems – at least they appeared so – but once I unpacked them and got inside of them, I realized that these were powerful and meaningful vibrational lessons in disguise, just waiting for me to finally see them as such.
If you have some of this stuck energy somewhere in your life, like an area or project that’s lingering on the back burner and not progressing, bring it with you into CGC, and we’ll help you crack it open and get it moving. The process is different than you’d think. The key is to see even seemingly mundane problems as your vibrational teachers. Once you realize that your problems are actually here to help you grow stronger, that’s very transformational. The skill aspect is getting enough practice that you can do this consistently. Then your problems will start to look like Dominoes.
CGC as a Leadership Dojo
Many members in the club have been gradually evolving in the direction of leadership. I don’t mean the corporate or hierarchical kind. This is more of a vibrational shift. As members step into their power, they increase their ability to create more ripples in other people’s lives as well. As they begin to see some of these ripples revealed, that gets people thinking even more about purpose and contribution.
As this path to purpose has been unfolding at the individual level, I’ve been reflecting on how CGC could better support this opening. CGC’s core purpose is to lovingly and powerfully support our members’ paths of growth, so it too needs to grow as we do.
Las year we added the new Contribution Café call format to specifically focus more energy on purpose and contribution for members who align with this. We’re keeping these calls going for Year 9, but I’ve also sensed that it’s time to evolve the club to provide even more support for this direction.
The phrase “Leadership Dojo” came through several weeks ago, and I immediately thought: That’s it!
I love this framing because it speaks to who we’re becoming. We’re emerging leaders – first in consciously leading our own lives, then in creating positive ripples – and CGC is our training Dojo.
So if you’ve been seeing this leadership direction opening up in your life too, and you’re reading this now, that a good hint that you’re likely to be a strong match for CGC.
Being Seen
For CGC Year 8, our overall theme was Fire Infusion. Working with fire energy was a big through-line for the year as we burned off and released misalignments from our lives and amped up our motivation and centeredness.
For CGC Year 9, the theme is Be Seen. This has many facets, but I’d say the biggest one is allowing people to truly witness your unfolding growth journey. There’s something remarkably powerful about working through your advances in the presence of others inside the CGC field.
For our first 8 years of CGC, we’ve had an old energy that’s been coming along for the ride, one that we must release for Year 9. That’s the energy of hiding – of being a background character inside the field of CGC.
On a practical level, this old energy took the form of some members attending Zoom calls in a non-participatory mode – camera off and not raising hands during opportunities to share. And that was okay for the first 8 years. We held space to work with this energy too. But this energy doesn’t mesh with where we’re heading. It doesn’t support a strong enough field. It doesn’t align with CGC being a Leadership Dojo.
So for CGC Year 9, we’re strengthening the field by releasing this background mode from live calls, at least for the ones that Rachelle and I host. That means that everyone is on camera, fully present, ready to participate.
In CGC Year 8, we introduced a “splash zone” feature to some calls. This meant if you were on camera, you were open to being called upon to participate – no need to raise your virtual hand. But there was still the option to turn off the webcam and just watch. Most calls, however, just had voluntary sharing, so even if you were on camera, you wouldn’t be expected to share unless you volunteered.
Near the end of this CGC year, we also began practicing “splash chaining,” whereby a member who shares gets to randomly call upon another member to share – anyone on camera is a fair choice. But again, there was still the off-cam option available too.
For Year 9 there isn’t a passive-attendance option for these live calls. If you’re in the space with us, you’ll need to be on camera and willing to actively participate. That doesn’t mean that everyone will be called upon to share something each time, but it does mean being open to it. Otherwise if someone tries to attend a call in hiding mode, we would invite them to join us on camera, and if they declined, we would drop them from the call.
This change isn’t to punish or shame anyone. It’s to elevate, protect, and strengthen our field inside. There’s a different energy on a call when everyone is on camera and fully seen. Having even one person in the space in off-cam mode shifts the vibe of the experience for all involved. It’s like having an intimate conversation while someone else is hiding behind the drapes, watching you engage. And even when you acknowledge their presence and invite them into the space to be seen and to participate, they still choose the drapes.
The whole experience on a live call is stronger and more aligned if everyone is fully present, just as if we were gathering in person. We want people who are in the space of these calls to really be in the space with us, not half-present. We want everyone shining their light together to help co-create the experience. That’s our standard for Year 9 and beyond.
Not everyone is willing to do this. We’re here to engage with the willing.
Every call in CGC is optional. None are mandatory. So if someone doesn’t feel up to contributing to our strong, mutually supportive, we-are-all-seen-here energy for these calls, they can skip the call. But in Year 9, they do not have the option of merely showing up to watch. We are releasing this energy starting on May 1st, so passive watch mode will no longer be part of the club.
If other members who host their own calls in CGC want to allow for an off-camera mode, that’s their choice, but all of the calls that Rachelle and I host together from May 1st onward will be on-camera for everyone.
This is an example of looking at the vibrational aspect of a situation first, finding the place of alignment, and then translating it into the physical layer. The transformational energy is clearly stronger when we all agree to harmonize our co-creative energy, and being seen together in our emergence is a big part of that. All this requires at the action level is a simple change to what we invite.
From Depletion to Overflow
In CGC Year 9, we’re placing an even stronger emphasis on living from overflow instead of depletion.
When you build excess capacity within yourself – energetically, emotionally, creatively – you have more to share without running dry. You can lift others without sacrificing your own footing. You can contribute with delight instead of draining yourself.
In CGC we’re making this our norm: to meet each other in a state of overflow. To give from abundance, not from scarcity. To share from wholeness, not from woundedness. This practice strengthens not just individuals, but the entire community field.
Overflow doesn’t mean perfection. It means investing in yourself first – restoring, nourishing, aligning – so you’re showing up fully charged, ready to support and be supported.
Year 9 is about learning to live there. What most people don’t realize is that living from overflow is a choice – one that must be made vibrationally before it can be engineered into existence physically.
Building a Stronger Club
Practically speaking, CGC has never offered a better value for members than it does now.
Once you join CGC from here on, you can continue renewing each year for $1111 – only a third of the new member price of $3333. This rewards commitment, consistency, and long-term investment in your growth. It recognizes that our core members are also contributing by helping us to hold and sustain the field in which we all grow together.
The bar to get in is higher than it is to renew. Renewing is a breezier and lighter decision. For new members considering joining, we want you to pause and reflect first. Joining CGC, especially for Year 9, is a big deal. We don’t want this to be an impulse choice for anyone. We want you to make it thoughtfully.
We’re very protective of our space, and it’s definitely not for everyone, so it’s important that we continue to filter and deflect the misaligned – no Trump supporters, no prima donnas, just growth-oriented team players who align with our purpose. We’ve been doing a great job of that for many years now, which is one reason we have such a strong and aligned club inside. We filter for truth-alignment, love-alignment, and power-alignment at the door. The invitation is meant to deflect and repel as much as it is to invite. Only strongly aligned people are likely to find it enticing.
One of the best ways for us to keep attracting new members is also to grow from within. So we’ve added a simple and generous referral program starting this year. Members who refer a new member to join can get their own renewal totally free. So if you refer at least one new member to us each year, you can essentially lock in a perpetually free membership – simply by continuing to bring in highly attuned people who resonate with CGC’s energy and purpose. In this way we support those members who help support the club’s ongoing growth and evolution.
Infusing More Playfulness and Sexiness
Another theme weaving through Year 9 is the infusion of more playfulness and sexiness into the club’s energy.
Growth doesn’t have to be heavy. Alignment doesn’t have to be stoic. Transformation doesn’t have to feel like trudging uphill.
It can be lively. It can be sensual. It can feel like flirting with reality, dancing with your dreams, turning your own evolution into an art form.
In CGC we embrace the idea that conscious growth can feel good, energizing, and even a little mischievous. When your life feels deeply attractive to you, you naturally magnetize the right people, opportunities, and experiences into your field.
We’re allowing that aliveness to breathe through everything we do. And we’re also giving it even more space to breathe with new the Fun & Games and Mating Call formats this year. Many of us bond through fun and laughter, so we want to keep enhancing this aspect of the club’s field too.
Life Support Team
One of the aspects I appreciate most about CGC is the incredible level of support that flows through the club.
It’s not just Rachelle and me holding space. It’s a collective of caring, wise, heart-centered beings who know how to hold, love, uplift, and stretch each other.
CGC isn’t just a group you join. It’s a life support team you consciously weave into your journey – people who see you, believe in you, and encourage you to rise into your truest expression.
If you’re a very nurturing person yourself, you’ll find this to be a space where that quality is deeply appreciated. I’ve also seen how some members who weren’t very nurturing of others at first have really developed this quality in themselves, sensing the joy that comes from encouraging others.
I feel deeply held by this community too. It supports not just my personal growth but also the projects, courses, and events I create. Many of my best ideas and initiatives over the past several years were birthed and nurtured through the energy of CGC.
If you want to feel truly supported – not just tolerated or superficially encouraged but deeply witnessed and championed – CGC is one of the best places to experience that.
We don’t run CGC in some corporate way. We have a strong structure for it, and it’s maintained very responsibly, but it’s very important to me to keep the field caring, gentle, and intimate, even as we stretch ourselves.
Starfire Nursery – Discover Your Core Vibescapes
One of the most intimate and powerful additions for CGC Year 9 is the introduction of Starfire Nursery, an 8-week live series we’ll be hosting this fall. This is exclusively for CGCers and won’t be offered to anyone outside the club.
Starfire Nursery is about stepping into the vibrational roots of who you are. It’s not about goal-setting or external vision boards. It’s about discovering the inner stellar nursery that’s been generating your most meaningful desires, goals, and creations all along – the living frequencies that nourish your path.
Each week we’ll meet live online (but not recorded) to explore these core vibescapes – the emotional, energetic terrains that power your alignment. You’ll map, name, and begin cultivating your inner landscape with exquisite clarity.
The intention isn’t to force new outcomes. It’s to fall in love with the fertile vibrational ground inside you – to nourish it, trust it, and let it guide your expressions and creations more naturally.
These sessions will be highly interactive, playful, deep, and spacious. They’ll encourage emotional honesty, vibrational tuning, and creative revelation.
I sense that for many members, Starfire Nursery will become one of the most meaningful experiences we’ve shared so far – not just for what it helps you create, but for how it helps you become.
Starfire Nursery begins this September and will run weekly through late October. It’s woven directly into the Year 9 flow – part of the living expansion we’re stepping into together. The exact dates and times are shared on the Year 9 invite page.
Gathering In Person
I’m thrilled to share that we’re planning our first in-person CGC gathering for April 2026 in Las Vegas.
It will be a four-day event, free to CGC members as part of their membership. You’ll just cover your own travel, lodging, and personal expenses like food.
I’m envisioning a vibrant, co-creative experience – not just passive consumption but active participation and spirity collaboration.
This gathering will be another step forward in weaving the CGC field even tighter and deeper. For many it will be the first time meeting face-to-face with people who’ve already been walking alongside them for years, supporting, challenging, and inspiring them.
Feeling the Call
If you feel the call, if your spirit stirs when you imagine yourself growing and co-creating alongside other conscious, courageous souls, I encourage you to step through the portal and join us for Year 9.
We only open once a year – and enrollment closes at midnight Pacific on May 1st.
