This Epic Life

03/26/2025

Hey all! I hope you’re great. Big announcement today. We relaunched our Substack— it is now Permission to Chill, based on the first Permission from my book.

I’ll be interviewed *Live* on Substack today discussing how to build “Sacred Business”. What works, what doesn’t, and my first 10 years working for myself.

https://substack.com/?liveStream=17404

Schedule and tune in here— and find our new community on Substack! 👇🏻 thanks! ❤️

08/07/2024

Today's Tiny, bold moves Newsletter: Let Me Please Remind You.

Your path of purpose— it's all yours.

02/13/2024

Looking to make upgrades to your business, your team, or your impact?

Schedule an appointment today and meet your new coach.

Excited to invite you to our new website, EpicLeadership.org

We just made a major overhaul to our free checklist:

☑️The 7 Commitments to Scaling a Powerhouse Team Culture.

🔗

03/03/2023

Agree?

Have you been on a retreat, and if so, what really sticks out in your mind?

03/01/2023

The nuttiest part about being an author?

Every once in a while, you trip over some quote that inspires you— then you realize you wrote it! 🙌🏻 🤣

"Permission To Glow" is featured this week in the Uptime App — It includes a 5-minute summary I wrote, as well as AI narration.

If you're curious, this is the quote:

"Modern business is a dynamic landscape, swirling with existential threats and unlimited potential.

To sail those choppy seas, you’re going to need your entire crew.

But we can’t hope to reach others without reaching fully into ourselves and then sharing what we find."

02/20/2023

My Pops visits me in the perfect moments. Today I was writing a talk I’m giving in DC, and Poppa’s birth year came up (1917, the same year Yogananda’s guru asked him to plan and open a school for Yoga in Ranchi, India).

The second I thought, “wow. That’s when Poppa was born.” (He passed in 2009)…

My cousin Katie posted pics of her adorable family climbing to the top of Pops’ lighthouse. We call it “his” because he led the charge to raise the funds to save it in the ‘80’s. Fire Island Lighthouse on Long Island, NY.

There’s a quote of my Grandfather’s in the little museum lobby there. You can swipe through to see it. 👉🏼

What gobsmacked me a bit, was that I hadn’t read his quote in many years, and it is so similar to what I wrote in Permission to Glow— that although lighthouses may have outlived their utility, they are warm, stabilizing beacons in our ever-changing world.

So, as I connected with my yoga lineage, I got reconnected with my family lineage. And realized for the thousandth time just how influential Luis E. Bejarano was in my life, in my parenting, and in my work.

Water the roots. In your yoga, in your family, in all you learn and all you teach. Your lineage lives on and teaches through you.

02/13/2023

If you want more joy and ease in your life—

try this: 👇🏻👇🏻

Notice how you anticipate what’s coming.

We all have things coming at us. A few of those are mandatory (tax season, the kids home from school).

However, we usually know what’s coming because we accepted the invite.

Look ahead between now and Summer. How do you feel about what’s ahead? Are you excited, or does it stress you out?

If we’re being honest, most of us would say “both”.
Anticipation is rarely neutral. We usually toggle between:

1 - Anxious anticipation.

-or-

2 - Joyous anticipation.

Anxious is our default mode. We choose anxious over joyous unconsciously. Dreading meetings is an easy place to hide: from the prep, from hard conversations, etc. Doom scrolling through media makes us dread what’s coming.

Joyous anticipation takes more intention. But the rewards are massive.

Three simple things for more joy and ease:

1 - Do not schedule anything that doesn’t fill your soul in some small (or big) way. “If it’s not a Hell Yes, it’s a no!” to quote Derek Sivers.

2 - Block longer chunks for your Big Work. Once it’s blocked (writing, designing your brand, prepping a talk, etc) don’t allow anyone to touch your sacred time.

3 - Leave space for adventure. Take your kid camping. Go to an art museum, or journal in a coffee shop. Thumb through bins of vinyl.

4 - Look three months out and wonder “where” you said yes from. Was it “yes” from obligation? Responsibility? Or, was it HAYELL YAYESSS from Joy?! 🤣

Don’t settle for constant anxious anticipation. A little is OK.

We deserve to be excited for what’s next. When we anxiously anticipate, we need to make a change.

02/10/2023

Permission 2: Feel All the Feels. 🦄