"You have instilled to art of playful discipline in me, and you have helped me completely change the way I see things"

Dear JG and Toma, I am both exhausted and exhilarated. Not the burned out type of exhaustion, but the kind you get after finishing your first marathon (if you’re into that kind of thing). Here is the transformation you contributed to providing me: A complete 180 mind shift from the goal of wanting to coast, hands-off, feet-up, after completing my course… …to… …being genuinely excited and wholehearted about engaging and serving my tribe! Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the poet David Whyte: “The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. It is wholeheartedness.” My M.O. in life has always been helping others, but I did it in a dysfunctional way, in an enabling way, that overextended myself and got me clinically burned out. I was fearful when you first talked about engagement with your students, thinking it would make me feel too accessible and eat up too much of my time and energy; that I’d be overextending myself again, which would lead to yet another burn out. It seemed that my dream of a life of freedom and flexibility that I so yearned for after being owned by an agency was going up in smoke as you talked about how building a course is just the prepwork for when the real work of engagement and transformation starts. I am a rather introverted and private person. Combined with my history of burnout, I was very gun-shy to “put myself out there”, and it was already a stretch to put a course out there. But then on top of that, I’d have to engage? After I quit my corporate career, damn near willing to live in poverty if I had to, over working as ferociously as I had, I kept fantasizing about something I could do to bring in a ton of passive income. I dreamt of winning the lotto so I wouldn’t have to lift a finger. But whenever I’d get lost in those fantasies, there was a lingering pang of that not being the point of life, and a type of atrophy that accompanied those thoughts. I couldn’t reconcile my deep-seated desire to do some good in this world and my M.O. to help others with my want of not being owned by others and need to not get burned out. And then, in this final week of Creating Transformations, something profound shifted in me…it was as if all the cells and synapses of my brain were being restructured. Something major clicked after going through your course. Admittedly, I’ve been very private about sharing in this Facebook group, which I now regret, but behind the scenes I’ve been listening meticulously to every single word you have said, and I’ve been showing up every single day to do the work. You have instilled to art of playful discipline in me, and you have helped me completely change the way I see things. All of the sudden, I’m now reallyreallyreally excited to come from a place of service in a functional way that serves me as well as my tribe. I see how it’s the engagement that facilitates the transformation. Aha!! It’s like I’m a service dog with her tongue out and wagging her tail, thinking “YESSSS! Finally I can do something that’s both fun AND helps people!! And it’s has the potential to totally transform their lives!!” So thank you, Jason, from the bottom of my service-loving heart! And thank you, Toma, for demonstrating beautifully how this is done by serving us wholeheartedly. Thank you both for bringing us so much joy. I love you guys. And boy this was fun!! Oh, and as a teeny tiny side note, you also helped catapult me out of a two-year complete and utter stuck place where I had gone through all of my savings. So thanks for that too. ;)