Ok I’m not embarrassed to share this has taken me 3 days to figure out! I recorded on Monday and then because it’s a little longer couldn’t get it to upload! Finally… it’s up… and we just keep going! 🙌

Hello, hello. Welcome to the GDP community. I'm so happy that you're here. I am just overthinking things a little bit, so I'm jumping on, as you know, I do—the one-take wonder lives. Yeah, I was just scrolling along looking for something and a Skool ad popped up. It said, “Six gentle reminders.” Number one: your first community doesn’t have to be perfect. What? Number two: starting with three members is starting. So hold on a second—how many members do we have as of today? Let’s get into it. GDP, we have 19 active members. What? 19? I’m so pumped. I love it. Okay, number three: you already know and care enough to help someone. I love that. Number four: imperfect action beats perfect planning. There’s no planning here—not on this one. Number five: your people are waiting for you to begin. Are you guys waiting for me to begin? Are you? Number six: community grows when you show up, not when you’re ready. So for context, today I am just getting myself together. It’s almost four o’clock in the afternoon, and there is a parent council meeting that I want to make at six o’clock. In between all that, I have to get dinner going and spend maybe some time with my family. But I thought, okay—I cannot believe that two weeks have gone by since I’ve jumped on a live. I was so excited when this whole thing became possible for me, and then here I am playing shy, overthinking what I’m going to talk about, overthinking what I’m going to share. Something clicked for me with that post about taking imperfect action—just following the flow and doing the things without waiting to be perfect. That message of showing up as you are is really inspirational to me and helps me get out of my head. It connects me back to the origin of this community, to why I created ShineOn and what it means to me. I can’t let it go. I know this is something that’s calling deeply on my heart to show up courageously for. It started years ago, really. I can even cast my mind back to when I was a young girl—10, 11, 12 years old. This kind of thinking and paying attention to the world has never left me. It’s always been with me. The most recent iteration of this story started in 2018, when I decided to take action after being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. I wasn’t managing stress well, and I had a lot of pressure in my life. I had to come back to what really mattered to me, and that helped me settle my nervous system. I asked myself: what would really matter? What would a life well-lived look like, especially if it were cut short? That was a powerful energy—thinking, “If my time was limited, did I make the most of it?” That made me think: am I making the most of my time now, every day? It woke me up to myself and to the choices I was making, to the direction I was heading.

Thanks so much for being here and listening! YAY! <<<TRANSCRIPT>>> Alright, hello, welcome to the GDP. This is take two of figuring out doing a live. Last week I tried to do it and it didn't, I did not see the record button. So I thought it was just recording because I went live. I think I thought it was an automatic thing and now I know that we can just hang out without it recording. And this one is actually for a live recording. Anyway, I think I'm having a hard time being live right now and talking because last week I did record a message and it was very heartfelt and sincere and I want to do it again because it affected me so much. But it took a few days to summon the courage and the energy to do it. Like everyone, I'm sure we all know that Charlie Kirk passed tragically and the world was watching. For me the experience of finding out that he had passed and how he passed happened in an unexpected way and I wasn't looking for it, I had gone into an app to just message someone and the video played automatically of his death. And I just took the air out of my lungs, I couldn't speak, I lost my voice. I was affected so deeply by what I had witnessed. And I think that that happened because I relate so much to Charlie. I love young people. I could easily see myself on a college campus somewhere having the conversations that I'm having. The great discovery project is for those people that are just getting out there . This is my age group, this is my wheelhouse, I relate so deeply to what he was doing. I'm not making a political comment, what I'm saying is this is someone that was out there connecting and communicating and that's what I want to be doing. So on that level, I just lost my voice and I lost my power and I could not believe that that happened and immediately my mind went to a place where I was reflecting on why did this happen and I feel like it's an indictment of the American education system . I truly believe it's evidence of a faltering failed system and it goes back all

Ok so, on August 30th I recorded this and somehow it didn’t post or I just can’t find it! I promise I am working on my content workflow. You know we just keep going around here. For now it seems I’m pulling from the vault to share this post! I’m doing it cause it’s got a special message in there about the Mine Your Gold Mind (MYGM) first lesson in the core resources of my classroom. It’s my take on how some content carries the potential of self-activation and I want to make sure to highlight my process here for us all as a guidance if you want to try it. Hugs 🤗 let’s go!

15 Members! I’m so pumped! Whahoo!!! Can you tell that I’m BONKERS excited?!? 😆