My Mindvalley Journey: February 2023 – April 2026
It started quietly. A few short courses. 3MIQ. 6-Phase Meditation. Be Extraordinary. Vishen's books on the nightstand.
I wasn't looking for a breakthrough. I was a 34-year pipe organ builder with a company that worked, a life that functioned, and a persistent sense that something underneath it all was misaligned. I couldn't have named it at the time. I just knew the effort I was putting in wasn't producing the life I thought it should.
Then I sat down to meditate. And things got very quiet. And then they got very loud.
What came through in those early sessions wasn't information. It was recognition. A scarcity mindset I'd been running on for decades — built in a childhood without running water, reinforced by years of building and losing and rebuilding a business — became visible to me for the first time. Not as a concept. As a living pattern I could actually see operating in real time.
That was the beginning of everything changing.
My relationship with money changed. My relationship with control changed. The way I made decisions, led people, showed up in my closest relationships — all of it shifted. Not because I learned new techniques. Because I finally saw the beliefs I'd been living inside of, and most of them didn't survive honest scrutiny.
Over the next two years the business restructured. Revenue grew substantially. I hired my first operations manager. I stopped operating from scarcity and started operating from clarity.
That led me to Entrepreneurship Mastery last fall — which gave language and structure to what I'd already been experiencing intuitively. And now I'm completing the Coaching Certification, preparing to formally offer what I've been doing informally for years: sitting with capable people who are stuck and helping them see their own patterns clearly enough to move.
The practice is called Sovereign Ground Coaching. No paying clients yet — I'm waiting until the certification is in hand, because integrity matters more than momentum. But the foundation is real, the methodology is grounded, and the story that built it is genuinely mine.
Mindvalley didn't change my life by teaching me things.
It changed my life by creating the conditions for me to finally see myself clearly.
That's the only change that lasts.