botanical studies of internet magic

I'd like to share 5 distilled principles that transformed how I inhabit my business -- as a living ecosystem that centers my creative energy, above all else. learning, evolving, and embodying these principles took me so many years. I'll share the journey and the hard lessons I learned in the process, and map these principles onto a 12 week itinerary for my new course, Digital Abundance -- as an alchemical process for deep re-alignment and re-imagining of what your business can become, this next season. 🧧 ⁠⁠Digital Abundance⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ begins March 16 -referencedmy business is a hammock I weave by handunderworld business practicesmoney juice cleanse~💌 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my newsletters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠web world⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

when thinking (or talking) about my business, there's at least twenty words I don't use -- many of them super basic, like "marketing," "sales," "landing page," "launch," or "productivity" ... even "goals." I've rewritten my own creative business dictionary -- because language shapes our relationship to our worlds. I'll list the words, and tell you what words I use instead. rewriting my language helps me recreate my entire paradigm -- to create a business that values agency over manipulation, ecosystem webs over linear metrics -- and grow a system that I actually love, and want to live in. 🧧 Digital Abundance⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ starts March 16 -referencedtranscendence of the productivity addictsharing space camp build a labyrinth, not a funnel~💌 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my newsletters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠web world⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

today is an atmospheric map for our slow transition from winter into spring — through the archetypes of Pisces, Aries, and Taurus. we'll explore how to work with these energies in deepening into the creative life.I'll share why thinking in seasons has become such an important practice for me, and my intentions for this coming season, along with personal life context. we'll dive into the three archetypes and their grounding theme words: Pisces (dreaming), Aries (instinct), Taurus (embodying), as well as the questions they invite us to contemplate. this itinerary is the 12 week map for season 2 of Labyrinth Library, which opens Monday.*🦋 join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Labyrinth Library⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,🧧 explore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Digital Abundance⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, starting March 16🧃 take 7 days of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Money Juice Cleanse⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠~💌 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my newsletters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠web world⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

changing your relationship to money is not a 10 step checklist, it's tending to an ongoing practice -- with curiosity and tenderness -- as you do with your creative work. I'll share my own personal stories and significant reframes -- money as a circle, as feminine force, as a child of your creative energy. I'll walk you through my 7 practices for working with money -- and invite you to see money as a portal for working with your sense of resourcedness, enoughness, worthiness to receive, and your power to claim what you desire. *🧃 take 7 days of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Money Juice Cleanse⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🧧 explore my new course, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Digital Abundance⁠⁠⁠⁠🦋 join ⁠⁠⁠⁠Labyrinth Library⁠⁠⁠⁠, winter season ~mentioned:curated money stories money is a circle, process, practicecreative energy is the mother of money~💌 ⁠⁠⁠⁠receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my newsletters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠web world⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

part 2 of a mini-serieswhen tending to my business, I bring it back to two practices -- making offerings, and weaving my web. I share how I think about offerings as sacred containers, organic shapes, and potent distillations of your creative energy -- into usable form. I'll talk about weaving your web as an energetically efficient, long-term strategy that builds your body of work, and invites people into your world. this episode is about all perspective shifts -- to reimagining business as a generative, potent creative practice. *🧃 take 7 days of ⁠⁠⁠Money Juice Cleanse⁠⁠⁠🧧 explore my new course, ⁠⁠Digital Abundance⁠⁠🦋 join ⁠⁠Labyrinth Library⁠⁠, winter season ~mentioned:my business is a hammock I weave by handthe way of the artist entrepreneurbuild a labyrinth, not a funnel~💌 ⁠⁠receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my newsletters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my ⁠⁠web world⁠⁠ 🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠

the vast majority of business advice has never worked for me, not because it was wrong, but because it didn't align with my energy, and the way I wanted to exist in the world. it took me years to build my own operating system -- a model for business that didn't make me want to burn it all down, ghost everything, and just get a day job. I realized that I run my business like a super scorpio -- lunar, cyclical, waiting behind veils, operating from the depths. Far from being a weakness, that it's my greatest power. I'm calling this my"underworld business practices" -- and today, I've distilled them down into 8 parts to share with you. 🧧 explore my new course, Digital Abundance🧃 take 7 days of Money Juice Cleanse🦋 join Labyrinth Library, winter season ~💌 receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ visit my web world 🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠⁠

one of the most significant shifts I've ever had is letting go of linear (ladder-like) models of external success -- in order to put my own journey, process, and energy at the center. but, how do you do that, if you don't know what's at your center, or if your center is always changing? I'll explore facets of this question through the metaphor of a labyrinth as journey -- how to dance with seasonal cycles, moving between structure and spontaneity, and focus on just taking the next step forwards. 🦋 explore ⁠⁠⁠labyrinth library⁠⁠⁠, a seasonal community~ 🗺️ visit my ⁠⁠web world⁠ ⁠💌 receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ 1:1 advising ~ ⁠⁠liminal leap⁠⁠🌳 explore my ⁠⁠⁠⁠courses⁠⁠

there is a difference between wanting clarity, and wanting permission. or certainty. or safety. clarity isn't something external that I wait to happen to me (like good weather conditions), but a moving, fluid energy that I'm in conversation with -- like a bird. sometimes I see it. sometimes it's gone. I'll explore why clarity feels so crucial for the pathless path, how people see me as having a lot of "clarity" (when in fact, I experience it as something different). I'll share what questions I ask myself for cultivating a deeper relationship to clarity. ~ 🦋 explore labyrinth library, a seasonal community🌳 explore my ⁠courses & ⁠offerings⁠🗺️ visit my web world 💌 receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠

this is about escaping the noise of platforms and constant connectivity. I reflect on why acclimating to digital silence can feel stark, lonely, and hard, at first. it's like how the body feels on "airplane mode," or when when waking up in a forest after a decade in a cramped city apartment. in this episode, I explore how and why platforms (by design) turn us into static noise. I share my personal experiments on digital minimalism and solitude -- as a way of practicing more presence and here/now-ness, wherever you are. this is a meditation on digital silence as a rich landscape, showing you a deeper way into the self. related12 experiments in digital freedom (from 2020, in Japan)a day without screens (2020) why I don't use email or social media before noon (from 2016, back when I was still on social)~🏡 explore ⁠⁠house on the webs course🌀 explore creative systems course🪷 inquire about ⁠⁠advising sessions⁠⁠💧 ⁠⁠water⁠⁠ my world 💌 receive ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠

hello again, after a few months break. during my retreat, I thought a lot about what being "present" online means. I'll propose that digital presence isn't dependent on your labor or content production, but about cultivating a digital container that holds your energy. I'll explore:choosing inner rhythms over consistency pressurefreedom from treating yourself as a means of productionembodying the permission to be absentwhy content batching doesn't really work for mehow time works differently on the internetaccumulating wormholes to past selvesdigital spaces as vessels for presence~💌 sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠🏡 explore ⁠⁠⁠house on the webs course⁠🌀 explore ⁠creative systems course⁠🪷 inquire about ⁠⁠⁠advising sessions⁠⁠⁠💧 ⁠⁠⁠water⁠⁠⁠ my world

inhabiting a home on the internet is really about making space to be yourself, in public. you resist the digital flattening of the self and, instead, grow a wild ecosystem. how? first, through committing to your creative practice. in this episode, we’ll explore: what it means to inhabit a space my three step, cyclical processes for growing a digital home -- create, curate, carve paths. why focus on creation first, before structuring Q&A: how often do you need to maintain a website? Q&A: will things look jarring side by side? and more… I hope this episode gives you a sense of permission and possibility for growing and tending to a creative world of your own. 🌱 additional resources⁠build a labyrinth, not a funnel⁠house on the webs: introductionhouse on the webs: day 0 incubation workbuild a world, not an audience the internet as a creative practice~🌀 explore ⁠⁠⁠creative systems course⁠⁠⁠🪷 inquire about ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠advising sessions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💧 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠water⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ my world 💌 sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

why your website doesn’t have to be a brochure that compartmentalizes your infinite self — into three glossy pages. I’ll put these two frameworks side by side: “website as brochure” vs. “website as a digital garden-home-world”, and explore: why we feel pressured to turn ourselves into brochures the ethos and intention to sell / show / prove / substantiate — versus the intention to exist, inhabit, and be how brochure-like websites compartmentalize and limit the self into a marketing “niche” on building a nourishing garden-world to hold the multi-dimensional, expansive creative self — and invites visitors to linger why building a rich digital world to share your creative wealth is the key to inviting in prosperity ~🌱 additional resourceshouse on the webs courseinfinite possibilities for a digital worldhow to build a world: a cyclical guide why world-building is wealth-buildingthe internet i long to visit, inhabit, and build ~🌀 explore ⁠⁠creative systems course⁠⁠🪷 inquire about ⁠⁠⁠⁠advising sessions⁠⁠⁠⁠💧 ⁠⁠⁠⁠water⁠⁠⁠⁠ my world 💌 sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠

on a radically different way to relate to sharing your work on the internet — how to see sharing as a part of the creative process, not separate from it. I’ll explore the shifts in perspective that unlocked the act of showing up as myself, in public. we’ll explore:emotional resistance to sharing your work — swimming through feelings of overwhelm, creative stuckness, and guilt. sharing as being in energetic flow with the world sharing as creative release & death cycle sharing as cultivating creative self worth sharing as an act of surrender my 4 guidelines for more effortless and easeful sharing I’ll explain why I think sharing your work is NOT about the audience, or for “the other” — it’s first and foremost — for ourselves, and our creative flow. ~🏡 explore ⁠⁠⁠⁠house on the webs course⁠⁠🌀 explore ⁠⁠creative systems course⁠⁠🪷 inquire about ⁠⁠⁠⁠advising sessions⁠⁠⁠⁠💧 ⁠⁠⁠⁠water⁠⁠⁠⁠ my world 💌 sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠my letters⁠⁠⁠