[S1E13]: Behind the Shift: A Season One Update

In this episode:

• A transparent look at the podcast's shift from esoteric teachings to practical transformation, reflecting real-time navigation of change
• How spiritual frameworks should serve as tools (not boxes) for understanding authentic differentiation and collective shifts in 2025
• Preview of our upcoming three-part series exploring business evolution, frequency-based principles, and insights for navigating what's ahead

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Transcript

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast quick episode today to acknowledge a pivot that's happened in the podcast and how it is a little bit out of alignment. Well, it's an alignment for me, so it's not out of alignment, but it's doesn't make sense with the current direction that's listed in the description of the podcast.

So, so far the podcast has either been, you know, very esoteric, you know, I talked about human design. I talked about astrology. I've talked about numerology I've talked about life metaphors of shedding and it's been definitely pretty heady and Theoretical I tried to always have examples that bring it down to earth I try to make it clear and on the episodes where I talked about human design.

I thought those were very clear Those are much more teaching podcasts And it was a lot of technical spiritual concepts. It was about big collective shifts and energy. It was a lot of teaching and explaining about spiritual frameworks. And as you can see from where the podcast is going to be going, it's a lot more about professional reinvention, transitions, business growth during uncertainty, personal transformation and professional transformation, real experiences of navigating change.

and a lot more practical stuff. And because I'm a 5'1 heretic there will always be commentary that's a little bit pushing the envelope around society and this and that but It'll be a lot more guests and it'll be less of a spiritual metaphysical teaching podcast and more about navigating all of the things are listed in that including mindset and including how we become the kind of people we need to be to do that.

 Wanted to just acknowledge that because this message I wanted to share with you was channeled during the Leo full moon. And the Leo full moon, whenever you're listening to this, it doesn't matter, was the full moon that was the peak of the Aquarian moon cycle that we had in February of 2025.

And during this moon cycle, I channeled a bunch of content all related to The topics I've already been talking about, variations on that same theme, and I have some additional episodes planned and they all relate to applied and practical examples of these esoteric concepts and these spiritual systems and how they relate to this notion of reinvention.

And how they relate to this notion of collective change, which is what we're going through right now. So the one guest I will have, I wanted season one to be all guest free, but the one guest I'm going to have on, and I already mentioned this, is going to be an astrologer where we're going to talk about 2025 and I'll leave that for that discussion.

But the reason I'm bringing that person on is because 2025 is a lot about fundamental collective and personal reinvention. So that's why it relates to this podcast and the shift. And when I drop the final episode of the season, you'll understand how all of season one Was kind of setting us up for that and then season two will be whenever we drop it It'll be more related to what you see in the description and if the podcast changes between now and then I'll let you know You know, I always kind of assume that the people listening are the people have been listening the whole time But if you were just to drop into an episode and read the description you'd be like, what?

I'm confused and I don't blame you. So I guess this is a demonstration of messy middle, right? I don't like theoretical transformation stuff. I want to see the messy middle. I, it demonstrates you adjust in real time. You are always finding alignment, sometimes you're doing stuff publicly, sometimes you're doing things behind the scene.

This is a public podcast, so I have no choice but to acknowledge and present some of the messy middle. And I just want to always be transparent and authentic with you with everything I do. Not asking permission, that's not what authenticity is. It's just about being transparent. So, a deep dive into human design and astrology, they're the valuable tools.

I use them as tools. They're not the box. They're tools in the toolbox. And so, while it's not exactly aligned with the messy middle of professional reinvention and transformation, they are tools I use as part of that process, and the next couple episodes will explain that a little bit more. They're not the main focus, not the main thing that I do, and they're definitely not gonna be the main thing I do moving forward.

But they are part of the process and like I said season two whenever that is we'll shift to Stories and the spiritual and energetic tools we've woven in when relevant, but they're not going to be the central focus. So

That's all this is I kind of just want to acknowledge that because the rest of season one is a series of episodes That are all gonna sound kind of like what I've already been talking about. They're all building towards something There's all there's a method to the madness But in case the method to the madness isn't obvious, I just wanted to call it out.

I don't really need to do that, but I am choosing to. And season one is all about laying important groundwork about the massive shifts that are coming as we move into 2025, as we move into the age of Aquarius, because those shifts change the way that we operate in the world, in the professional world and in the business world.

So looking at human design, looking at astrology, looking at ancient wisdom. Not just as spiritual concepts, but as frameworks to really understand transformation. That's what a lot of the next few episodes are about, inclusive of numerology, inclusive of all this stuff. And when we complete that foundation,

it really will help you understand a lot of why all of this is significant for whatever is to come. There are a lot of podcasts in the podcasting space that are kind of like focused around this notion of the pivot, midlife pivot, personal reinvention. They are obviously more conventional than I am. My podcast would never be that because I'm not conventional.

So I don't really know how this is going to unfold. But I can say that there'll be a little bit more down to earth than what I've done. The entire premise of this podcast is what happens when we stop forcing and we start listening, listening to our body, listening to our intuition, listening to the divine signs, listening to life, but also listening to macro shifts.

Right? That's what mundane astrology is. Let's read the room. Let's read the collective room. So I'm doing this deliberately. Everything I do is deliberate, whether or not it's apparent or not, whether or not it's apparent even to me. Sometimes the deliberateness comes from spirit and it has a macro plan that already mapped all this out and I'm just following along but it's a, it's a deliberate foundation about what's shifting in the real world.

And then moving into the practical reality of navigating those shifts as a human, that's what we're going to start to weave into in season two. But you can't really understand where you're going if you don't understand the macro forces at play. And if you are somebody who's conventional and you're just listening to these pivot podcasts, these personal reinvention podcasts, these blah, blah, blah podcasts, you're not interested in the macro forces because you don't believe in it.

You think it's woo. I hate that word and I rarely use the H word because it's so disrespectful and it's so stupid. Like why are we calling energy woo in 2025? Like I hear smart people saying that. I'm like, Oh my God, why? Whatever. You don't believe in that. You don't believe that there are larger forces at play.

You're very linear. You're very practical in the way you approach. You're very pre 2027, which will make sense when I talk about human design. And that's cool. Then you're probably not the audience for me, right? A lot of age of Aquarius is about authenticity. It's about magnetic marketing, forget marketing, magnetic attraction, and whatever the opposite of magnetic repelling is, whatever, if there's a word for magnetic repelling, that whatever that is, that's what it is.

So this it's just. Maybe to help you understand the bigger progression, show how it all comes together, make me feel a little bit less uncomfortable about the next couple episodes because I feel like I'm giving you a bait and switch and that makes me feel like I don't want to be that person.

, but what happened with this full moon cycle is a lot of this kind of popped. So a lot of the stuff I'm going to be doing is in the future, but it all kind of popped now and at this Aquarian full moon. Which I'm not going to talk too much about because , I don't want to make this timely, but This was a very powerful full moon that had a lot to do with a culmination of energies not just related to me but related to Collective forces and also the entire moon cycle of the age of Aquarius has to do with the future Aquarius is a sign that represents the future.

It's a seed planting for the future So that's a lot of what this was even though I kind of seed planted the future and that I'm coming back so that's all to share and the next three episodes. It's gonna be a three parter So the three parter is really gonna combine a lot of topics I've already combined.

We're gonna talk about business, we're gonna talk about branding, we're gonna talk about human design, we're gonna talk about age of Aquarius, we're gonna talk about astrology, we're gonna talk about numerology, we're gonna talk about shedding, we're gonna talk about Year of the Snake, we're gonna talk about how this podcast came about on psychedelics in a tent, , we're gonna go there and then obviously I'll have a deep dive with my colleague where we're gonna talk about the astrology.

That'll be a little bit more I guess buttoned up and normal. , if a podcast about collective astrology is normal, in my world, that is, that's what you can expect. So we're gonna round out season one with a three parter. First one, we're gonna talk about human designs, concept of deconditioning, how it reflects bigger shifts in business and society.

I'll get into why I'm even bringing human design into this conversation because the way I use human design with clients is branding and strategy, and that's not what this podcast is about. So why am I talking about it on this podcast? I'll tell you why and why it's. Not just another system to follow, but it's a lens for understanding authentic differentiation in the world.

Then part two will be, we're going to talk about the messy middle, the evolution of business which includes branding, by the way, and examining the tension between traditional marketing, new frequency based principles, and just some other insights about what's coming in 2025. And then part three is an episode I've channeled on the new moon, the first two parts I channeled on the full moon.

 I gotta go back and, and, and, but I think it's a lot you know, it's a little bit more esoteric. The further back you go, the more esoteric it becomes. So it's a little more esoteric and it talks a lot about the year of the snake and numerology and it talks about something about 2025 leading up to the spring that you're going to want to know and how this all, I don't actually remember what's on that, but it's a part three that augments the first two parts.

And then we're going to round out season one with a focused episode, , with my colleague on the 2025 2025 6 astrological significance. I don't know what we're going to talk about in that. I can just tell you that's the umbrella because I'm going to let it be what it wants to be. And then I'll probably wrap up with a episode or two, , and the final is going to be a culmination full circle that will talk about how this podcast started in the first place.

And you're not going to want to miss that because it really ties back to the Hello It's Me episode I already recorded. It's very, very fascinating how this all can come full circle, but yet it's a spiral. Like you're, you came back to where you were, but you see it from a higher perspective. And I trust that in a year I'll see it from a higher perspective and I trust it on their year I'll see it from higher perspective we can spiral down to that happens in life But let's hope this goes in the other direction and that's it.

I Thank you for listening to the podcast if you are still listening if you found me from my human design content I am figuring out where that will go That will be in a different avenue. It won't be a separate podcast. I'm not gonna do two public podcasts It's a lot of work and I'm not doing that I also you know a human design podcast becomes a teaching podcast and I don't that's not an alignment for me , that's not where I'm going with this and that's not the plan I have So I'm figuring out what that looks like and obviously if you follow me on social media I'm the aligned alchemist everywhere right now YouTube threads Instagram 

 I'm , super, super active on all three platforms at once. But when I know more, you'll know more and you'll know. And I'll make sure people who , I'll, I'll make sure that it's obvious like where you can find me and where I'm doing and all that stuff.

This is a process of allowing the unfolding. This is a process of supporting the bigger story. This is a process of navigating uncertainty. This is a process of dealing with the messy middle and this is a process of what happens when you stop forcing and you start listening. And so I hope that this podcast, as it goes, is a case study in that.

 As things are going to change and shift and evolve, is that you are a sovereign being You are your own guide and you have the wisdom within you in a world that is designed to sell you a solution from somebody else. And we all need support from people.

So that's not what this is about. But when you create from vision versus frustration or trying to escape, you create something that is truly transformational and you create something that is long lasting. When you create from something feels like chaos. It leads to more chaos. So

as we're navigating 2025, the questions to be asking are, are you creating something that's new that you want to be that includes yourself or are you just escaping something else? Is it reaction to something or is it a true? Something that you want to create in the world. And the last one would be, are you aligned?

And that is a very played out word in the business space. If you guys were around long enough to hear my whole rant and when I changed the name of the podcast for the aligned CEO to Awaken your inner magic. Part of it is that I feel like the word aligned is really really played out in business. And alignment in human design is beyond the aligned with your values, blah, blah, blah.

It's aligned with your body graph. It's aligned with the way your energy moves. It's aligned with your actual unique superpowers that you have that I don't have and vice versa. And if you add in astrology. And the way that I do it, is it aligned with your soul path? And is it aligned with your, let's say, I guess you'd call them superpowers or different kind of superpowers in your astrological chart.

I use the word branding because that's how I use it. I'm sure you could use it in your strengths, right? Your, your core strengths. Is it aligned with that? And that's a big part of what navigating 2025 and 2026 will be about as we, as we move head into 2027. . I hope you enjoy the next couple episodes and thanks for listening to the podcast and thanks for being on the journey with me.

See you on the next one.