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Jan 12 • Growth

It’s super embarrassing to admit this…

For the first few years of being an entrepreneur, I engaged in some practices that could be described as questionable when inspected in the light of my professed values.

Ads promising big “outcomes” with little accountability.

Long sales calls in attempts to “close”.

Using pain / pleasure to move people to action.

These tactics and many more are still taught and practiced today.

***THANK GOD*** I was SO bad at it.

I eventually got so depressed I stopped everything.

Didn’t feel like it at the time, but it was the biggest blessing of my entrepreneurial life.

If you’re expecting the next part of the story to be about some huge epiphany I had during a six-week retreat, that I returned from and then had an exploding, wildly “successful” financial recuperation…

… yeah, this ain’t that kind of story.

I continued to be “off” from ‘doing business’ for… well, it’s been six years and counting.

What feels true now is that integrity to my divine assignment creates true satisfaction more reliably than any sales system ever did.

I doubt I’ll ever ‘do business’ again. IF I do, it will look like an entirely different picture than the one I originally pictured when I registered my LLC almost ten years ago!

After so many “ewwwww, yuck!” experiences, I know in my cells how I want to show up daily.

What took years of experimentation has now clarified how aligned leadership actually functions, when purpose is higher than profit in one’s priorities.

It’s not a business for me anymore.

It’s my life’s work.

Global Village Campus exists to help purpose-driven leaders build systems that honor human dignity and shared stewardship rather than extraction.

NOTE: For those who have practical questions, I have survived, had a roof over my head, ate well, been able to rest and travel.

Yes, I have privilege. If you are reading this, I argue that you do, too.

There are infinite ways to co-create living with the divine.

I will take more physical ‘hardship’ doing that than ‘making a living’ working in the hustle and grind ANY DAY.

In gratitude,

Deborah.

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