I want to share something special that just happened in Ascend Collective. AC, our main community is about slowing down, healing, and feeling safe. We focus on reflection, calm energy, and caring for the nervous system. This week/month, something beautiful unfolded. Like-minded souls came together. People co-created in a natural and gentle way. We just had a successful energy healing and activation session today, with the day being the Winter Solstice. If you understand activations, then you know. Soul gifts were gently awakened. This was a community offering. Free. Given with love. No selling. Just service and good faith. We lead in a circle, not from the top. Everyone matters. This is New Earth energy. This is 5D leadership. We are small, but we are mighty. 84% of our members are active. And this week, we expanded into a new space called Ascend Exchange. Ascend Exchange is our playground and workshop. It is peer-to-peer. A place for healers, coaches, intuitives, oracles, herbalists, creative souls, etc. People call it our Hogwarts... and it fits. In Ascend Exchange, you can: - Share a group healing - Offer group coaching - Do group card readings - Try hypnotherapy - Ask for help on a project - Invite others to co-create You step into the spotlight. You practice. You create. You receive kind, real feedback. I hold the space. But the members are always the center. So here’s the invitation: If you want healing, reflection, and deep inner work → Ascend Collective Private. Calm. Free to join. If you love learning by doing, creating with others, and testing your gifts → Ascend Exchange Playful. Creative. Free to join.

Ascend Exchange is a hands-on space for people in spiritual and holistic paths. Energy healers, coaches, intuitives, channelers, shamans, and similar practitioners. This isn’t a marketplace. It's more like a practice room or workshop. People use this space to: - practice their skills - Do group coaching or group healings - exchange sessions (healing for healing, coaching for coaching) - learn together through real experience - collaborate on small projects or group work Learning happens by doing, not just watching. Members also get chances to: - host sessions - speak in front of others - build confidence and leadership skills - receive honest, real-time feedback Exchanges are already happening, and the space is growing naturally. Open to anyone curious about practicing together. Link is here if you’d like to explore. 🤍

Sharing a space we’ve been building for hands-on practice and collaboration. Ascend Exchange is a peer-to-peer environment where people can try things out, learn by doing, and support each other through practice sessions, shared exchange, or donation-based offerings. There’s no selling, no set pricing, and no funnels. It’s designed to feel like a working space rather than a stage or classroom. It’s completely optional and open to anyone who’s curious. Link is here if you’d like to take a look. 🤍

You sit down with your notebook, your favourite pen, maybe a warm drink. Today’s the day you’re finally going to validate that course idea you’ve been thinking about for months. You start doing the searching, the market research. And then you see it... A course that looks a whole lot like what you’ve been planning. The title feels uncomfortably close to what’s in your Google Doc, the creator has a bigger audience, their branding looks polished, they have testimonials, case studies, maybe even a big ad campaign behind them. And very quickly, the story in your head shifts from: “I think this could really help people." to "Great. I’m too late. Someone already did it.” Most people stop right there. They close the tabs.They tell themselves they’re being “realistic.”They quietly downgrade the idea from “potential offer” to “never mind.” But here’s what I want you to sit with: Seeing someone else teaching what you want to teach is not, by itself, evidence that you shouldn’t create your course. It might actually be one of the strongest indicators that you’re onto something valuable. In this week’s episode of The ART of Online Course Creation, I’m digging into that moment: - What’s really going on when you find “your” course already out there - How to look at competitors without spiraling into self-doubt - The difference between “it already exists” and “there’s no room for me” - A behind-the-scenes story about how I navigated this when I saw a very big, very visible creator teaching something that looked a lot like what I do I’m also sharing why some of the popular “validation shortcuts” (like quizzes that tell you if your idea is profitable, or AI tools that promise to do all your market research for you) can leave you more confused, and what to do instead. If you have: - a course idea in your notebook - a half-finished outline in a Google Doc - or just a topic you can’t stop thinking about… …but you keep seeing other people doing something similar and using that as a reason to hesitate, this episode is for you.