Starkhorn

Directing large-scale PE backed IT integration projects across multiple countries, standardising operations, streamlining processes, and managing complex IT infrastructures to achieve significant cost savings and efficiency gains.

Collaborated with C-suite executives on IT due diligence, post-merger integration, and the creation of scalable operating models, delivering measurable synergies and enhanced portfolio value.

Developed and executed bespoke IT strategies for private equity clients, ensuring alignment with business goals, operational scalability, and long-term growth through innovative technology solutions.

Offering consultancy, fractional support, and expertise in M&A, Divestments, Outsourcing and Private Equity.

Founder

Age UK

Non Executive IT Director - Digital and Technology

Jardine Motors Group trading as Lancaster

Spearheaded IT due diligence for a £300m transaction, enabling the seamless sale of Jardine Motors to Lithia & Driveway.

Supported the £400m acquisition of Pendragon PLC, integrating IT systems to establish Lithia UK, driving operational synergies.

Achieved £1m+ annual savings by centralising telephony systems, enhancing customer service.

Designed and executed a cybersecurity framework, achieving a NIST CSF maturity score of 29.

Chief Information Officer

Mothercare

As Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure, I led seamless IT service delivery across 150 UK stores, franchises, head office, e-commerce, and warehouses. Aligning IT with business objectives, I enhanced efficiency and drove innovation.

Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure

IT Service Delivery Manager

IT Technical Services Manager

IT Technical Support Manager

VisitBritain

Technical Support/Infrastructure Analyst

2nd Line Engineer at VisitBritain

Fractional CIO | IT Strategy for High-Stakes M&A | Faster M&A, Smoother Exits | De-risking IT & unlocking value | Author

If IT isn’t creating enterprise value, it’s destroying it. Most firms still treat IT as a cost centre. Growth-focused companies can’t afford that mistake. I help CEOs, CFOs, boards, and investors turn IT into a value-creation engine — accelerating deals, de-risking operations, and boosting EBITDA.

Proven Results

✓ £1.6m in savings within 18 months across 10+ countries
✓ Seamless IT integrations in £300m+ and £400m+ transactions
✓ 40% fewer outages across 150+ retail locations
✓ Cybersecurity resilience with NIST maturity scores above industry benchmarks

Why Clients Choose Me

✓ Fractional CIO flexibility — strategic leadership without full-time overhead
✓ Interim CIO firepower — execution in high-stakes transformations
✓ Board-level insight — translating IT complexity into clear business impact

Whether you’re scaling a mid-sized firm or leading a multi-country enterprise, IT should fuel growth, protect assets, and support scale. If it isn’t, it’s silently eroding value.

I am currently accepting 2 more clients in 2025 (Fractional, Interim, or Advisory).
DM me or book a call to explore how IT can become your competitive edge.

Daniel J. Jacobs

Self Evolution Coach for $5M+ Multi-CEOs | Remove A-Player Dependency to Scale Multiple Companies

Natalie Nadeau

You’re a high performer.

Your business is thriving.
Your life is full.
Your results are strong.

And yet… you feel the edge of your next level calling you.

Not from lack.
Not from struggle.
Not from chaos.

But because your current capacity was never meant to be your ceiling.

Because with the level of leadership you hold…
your next level requires more.

More of your rituals.
More of your standard.
More of your team.
More ease.
More freedom.
More alignment.
More you.

Not more effort.
More evolution.

You got here through identity, discipline, and self-leadership.

But the next level of your life, wealth, and inner peace?

It won’t be achieved by doing more.

It will be achieved by holding more.
By trusting more.
By regulating deeper.

The reason your next level feels “close but not clicked-in” is because:

👉 You’re carrying the weight of every decision in your body
👉 Your nervous system is overstimulated from constant leadership
👉 Your rituals haven’t expanded to match your expansion
👉 You’re still using discipline where your body requires regulation
👉 You’ve outgrown the level of support you once needed
👉 You’re running at a pace that requires more nourishment, not more effort

Your business isn’t the bottleneck.
Your biology is.

And the solution is restoring the internal ecosystem that allows you to hold the freedom you say you want.

✔ Supplements that stabilize your hormones
(magnesium glycinate, DHA, ashwagandha, electrolytes, probiotics, minerals)

✔ A regulated nervous system that actually trusts the next level

✔ Rituals that restore your feminine power
(infrared heat, lifting, breathwork, hot yoga, red light)

✔ Space and ease that your future self operates from
(house cleaners, meal prep delivery, time freedom)

✔ Self-trust strong enough to follow the pull without negotiating
(no more double-checking, overanalyzing, or second guessing)

High performers don’t need motivation.
They need energetic optimization.

If you want the next level of:
✨ Elevated standards
✨ Higher price points
✨ More team support
✨ More freedom
✨ More ease
✨ More self-trust
✨ More expansion with less force
✨ A nervous system that MATCHES your ambition

… then regulation, supplementation, identity work, and inner-dojo refinement is exactly what you need. 

You’re ready.
You feel the pull.

And in a few weeks I'll be launching something to help you through this.

The CEO Evolution Coach | Master your inner dojo through conscious leadership, cortisol regulation, and non-circumstantial identity.

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Most people think they have “emotional problems.”
They actually have stored energy problems.

Your emotions aren’t random.
They’re residual energy your body never got to release.

And the higher you rise in life, leadership, and identity…
the louder that stored energy becomes.

Because the body will not let you build a new level
on top of an old charge.

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Here’s the truth high performers never hear:

Emotion = energy in motion.
But when the energy stops moving?

It becomes:
 • tension
 • hypervigilance
 • perfectionism
 • guilt
 • cravings
 • numbness
 • “What is wrong with me?” spirals
 • self-sabotage
 • confusion with no logical source

Not because your mindset is weak.
But because your nervous system is overloaded.

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1. Stored energy creates sensations.

Tight chest.
Jaw clenching.
Buzzing thoughts.
Heavy limbs.
Gut pressure.

Your mind then creates a story to make sense of it.
But the sensation came first—
not the story.

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2. Stored energy creates thoughts.

You can be:

✔ spiritually mature
✔ emotionally intelligent
✔ highly self-aware
✔ deeply intentional

… and still spiral into fear, guilt, doubt, and “What if?”

Not because the thoughts are true—
but because your physiology is firing survival signals.

A dysregulated body produces dysregulated thoughts.

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3. Stored energy creates emotions.

Not because anything is wrong.
But because your body is finally strong enough to say:

“Something stuck in here needs to move.”

That “something” can be:
 • childhood stress
 • food trauma
 • money fear
 • emotional neglect
 • abandonment patterns
 • over-responsibility
 • overworking
 • relational instability
 • survival coding you never chose

The body keeps the score
until you’re safe enough to release it.

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4. When the body regulates, everything moves.

That’s why:
 • breathwork
 • protein rhythm
 • minerals
 • lifting
 • infrared sauna
 • walking
 • journaling
 • magnesium
 • probiotics
 • ashwagandha
 • ying yoga
 • consistent routines

… shift your emotional baseline.

Not because you changed your mindset.
But because you released the charge.

When the charge moves → emotion dissolves
When emotion dissolves → thoughts quiet
When thoughts quiet → clarity returns
When clarity returns → identity stabilizes

This is the real inner work.

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You don’t need to fight your emotions.
You need to free the energy underneath them.

High-level leaders don’t rise by forcing their mind.
They rise by liberating their biology.

The Hard Truth: You’re Not Lacking Clarity. You’re Lacking Regulation.

Everyone talks about “clarity” like it’s a mindset problem.
It’s not.

Clarity is a physiological state.
Confusion is a cortisol response.

When your nervous system is regulated,
clarity becomes your default strategy.
Not a journaling prompt. Not a 3-hour brainstorm.

A baseline.

Because when the body feels safe:
 • Decisions are instant — you’re not protecting, you’re progressing
 • Leadership stops being performance — it becomes presence
 • Intuition gets louder — cortisol stops choking it
 • You no longer chase alignment — you embody it

Most people don’t overthink because they’re confused.

They overthink because their body doesn’t feel safe enough to let go of control.

And here’s the honest truth no one likes to say:

You’re not “disciplined” because you track everything.
You’re dysregulated.

You’re not “detail-oriented.”
You’re bracing.

You’re not “high standards.”
You’re in survival mode.

When your system is regulated, you stop:

❌ micromanaging
❌ analyzing timelines
❌ tracking every calorie, emotion, or metric
❌ questioning yourself into paralysis

And you start:

✔ moving with God-level instincts
✔ trusting your first answer
✔ acting before doubt even wakes up
✔ leading from presence, not pressure

When your nervous system is regulated, you move like someone who is held.

You become the strategy.
You become the plan.
You become the clarity.

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Actionable Steps to Build a Regulated CEO Nervous System:

1. Bring cortisol down daily
– Infrared heat or sauna
– Magnesium glycinate
– Morning protein

2. Build rhythm, not restriction
– Eat every 3–4 hours
– Stop fasting through anxiety
– Stabilize blood sugar → stabilize your thoughts

3. Add nervous system anchors
– Breathwork before decisions
– 10–20 mins of walking post-meal
– Vagus nerve activation (cold splash, humming, long exhales)

4. Reduce mental load
– One daily decision block (AM)
– No ruminating at night — transition ritual
– Create “default actions” so the brain can rest

5. Audit what your body feels (not what your mind says)
Ask: “Does this feel safe?”
If the body tightens — regulate first, decide second.

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In a few weeks, I’m launching something new.

It’s for founders who want to scale without creating the same burnout-driven patterns that capped their last ceiling.

If you want:
 • To stop leaking energy into control
 • To trust yourself without journaling for proof
 • To scale your business without scaling your stress
 • To operate from clarity instead of chaos

This is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.

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Regulation = Trust
Dysregulation = Analysis

The body was never designed to think its way into clarity.
It was designed to feel its way into truth.

Lower the cortisol.
Build the rhythm.
Feed the body.
Support the nervous system.

And clarity becomes a reflex.
Peace becomes your power.

When you think on something with the frequency of certainty, creation becomes instant.

The reason you haven’t normalized a much higher income level yet is because your thought-frequency is inconsistent with the level you’re trying to lead at.

Some days your mind is powerful.
Some days your mind is doubtful.
Some days you think from the version of you who already has it.
Some days you think from the version of you who’s still trying to get there.

And your business simply mirrors that.

It looks like:

some months everything rushes in
some months everything feels slow
some launches explode
some offers barely move

It’s not because you’re missing strategy.
You KNOW how to scale.
You KNOW how to lead.
You KNOW how to sell.

The gap is in the frequency of thought you’re holding yourself in as you move.

At this level, you’re unavailable for scattered thinking.
You’re unavailable for low-caliber leadership energy.
You’re unavailable for anything that pulls you out of the identity that CALLS IN the outcome.

Your next level income requires you to be someone whose internal state is unwavering:

When you think from power → clients respond instantly.
When you think from leadership → the business expands effortlessly.
When you think from inevitability → the result has no choice but to appear.
When you think from lack or rush → everything slows down.

It’s not magic.
It’s frequency.
It’s identity.
It’s leadership.

The speed at which money, clients, opportunities, ideas, and expansion show up…

has nothing to do with the external world
and everything to do with the internal world you’re holding between your ears.

A leader who thinks from overflow… receives overflow.
A leader who thinks from certainty… scales with certainty.
A leader who thinks from “of course it’s mine” … collapses timelines without force.

This is why the entrepreneurs who scale the fastest aren’t the ones who hustle the hardest.

They’re the ones who think on the outcome as if it already belongs to them.
They carry the consciousness of a multimillion-dollar leader before the numbers ever match.
They live in the frequency that makes the result inevitable.

That’s what makes growth quantum.
That’s what makes scaling simple.
That’s what makes income levels jump without explanation.

When your internal frequency is non-negotiably aligned with what you desire…

your business has no choice but to rise to meet it.

If you’re ready to shift into the level of leadership where your results move at the speed of your identity —
I’ll see your payment notification come through soon.

You’re healing.
You’re growing.
You’re self-aware.

But are you actually transforming?

You journal.
You meditate.
You reflect on every trigger.

But are you living regulated?
Or just aware?

Because transformation outside of regulation is just awareness.

You can know your patterns inside out —
but if your nervous system is still in survival,
you’ll keep repeating them.

You can say the affirmations —
but if your body’s still flooded with cortisol,
it won’t believe them.

You can identify your limiting beliefs —
but if your physiology doesn’t feel safe,
you’ll keep attracting circumstances that match your fear.

It’s one thing to know what’s wrong.
It’s another thing to be regulated enough to choose differently.

Mindset work helps you see the pattern.
Regulation helps you break it.

Awareness says: “I see the loop.”
Regulation says: “I’m no longer available for it.”

Because transformation without regulation
is like dieting on willpower — it doesn’t last.

You can think new thoughts.
You can have new goals.
You can read every book on mindset.

But without safety in your body — you’ll keep defaulting to control.

And control is just fear in designer clothing.

Transformation rooted in regulation, not restriction —
that’s where your power lives.

Because when your body feels safe:
→ You stop micromanaging outcomes.
→ You stop chasing money.
→ You stop negotiating your worth.
→ You stop controlling your body and start loving it back to safety.

That’s when it all clicks.

You stop surviving awareness —
and start embodying transformation.

If you’re ready to move beyond knowing and into becoming —
start with your regulation.

It’s not just healing.
It’s spiritual leadership.
It’s identity embodiment.
It’s Everyday Discipline™.

healing

Your revenue expands the moment you expand.

Because at your level —
$10M, $20M, $50M —
growth is no longer tactical.

It’s energetic.

It’s identity-driven.

It’s rooted in how you hold yourself while the entire universe is rearranging itself in your favour.

When you’re regulated, rooted, and anchored in your non-circumstantial identity…

💸 Money accelerates
💸 Opportunities multiply
💸 Expansion happens effortlessly

Not because you push harder —
but because you hold more.

But even the most successful CEOs plateau when they:

❌ Give their power away to outcomes
❌ Let temporary noise distort their signal
❌ Allow pressure to override presence

At your level, your business doesn’t respond to force.

It responds to frequency.

And the CEOs who consistently scale —
from $20M → $50M → $100M —
all have one thing in common:

They stay rooted in who they are regardless of what’s happening outside of them.

Because they know:

✨ The universe is constantly rearranging itself for their expansion
✨ Every desire is already done in the unseen
✨ Identity dictates revenue
✨ Regulation dictates leadership
✨ Trust dictates trajectory

This is how high-performing leaders unlock their next level:

Not through more pressure…
but through more presence.

Not through micromanaging outcomes…
but through mastering their internal dojo.

Not through effort…
but through identity.

A regulated CEO:

💰 Leads without reactivity
💰 Expands without burnout
💰 Makes moves from vision, not fear
💰 Attracts aligned opportunities on repeat

Because when your nervous system is steady, your leadership becomes unshakeable.

And when your leadership becomes unshakeable, your revenue compounds.

Not because you changed your work…
but because you changed who you are while doing it.

If you’re scaling into your next level of power, wealth, and identity —
and you want to hold it with unwavering certainty…

Message me “NON-CIRCUMSTANTIAL.”

Your next level already exists.
You simply have to become the one who can hold it.

You’re not operating at the level you know you’re meant for because you’re still allowing energies, conversations, expectations, and environments that don’t match who you’re becoming.

The more you love yourself, the more you value yourself…

the more resistance you feel in places where you’re no longer meant to stay.

That tightness in your chest?

That boredom?
That disconnect?
That frustration in the room?

It’s not a problem — it’s proof of expansion.

It’s your spirit saying:

You cannot dim to meet this level anymore.
You cannot shrink to make yourself digestible.
You cannot stay in rooms where your power feels “too much.”

You’re growing.
You’re rising.

You’re stepping into a frequency where your life, your standards, your money, your relationships, your leadership can finally match the identity you’ve been cultivating in private.

And the moment you stop entertaining lower frequencies, everything that is meant for you moves faster.

Trust the resistance.

It’s showing you the door out… and the path up.

You are not here to fit.
You are here to expand.

You thought resistance meant

Your energy, your focus, your emotional regulation, your decision-making, your hunger cues…
are ALL governed by minerals.

You can be the most disciplined person in the room — but if your mineral system is depleted, you will feel inconsistent, foggy, and emotionally unstable for no reason.

Let’s break this down.

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1. Coconut water delivers electrolytes your nervous system can actually absorb

Most people hydrate incorrectly.
High performers hydrate intelligently.

Coconut water contains potassium, magnesium, and sodium in a ratio your cells love.

⚡ Faster absorption
⚡ Better cell voltage
⚡ Actual hydration instead of chugging water and staying exhausted

Your nervous system can’t regulate without minerals.
Coconut water gives you the foundation.

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2. It stabilizes cortisol — the hidden saboteur of your performance

Cortisol burns through minerals like fuel.

When your body is stressed, you lose:
 • Potassium
 • Magnesium
 • Sodium

And that’s when cravings, fatigue, irritability, and “I don’t feel like myself” symptoms hit.

Coconut water replenishes what cortisol drains.

High performers don’t push harder.
They regulate smarter.

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3. It improves glucose control — the real reason your energy feels clean, not chaotic

Potassium increases insulin sensitivity.
That means your body moves glucose into your cells more efficiently.

Translation:
 • Less crashing
 • More stable energy
 • Sharper focus
 • No chaotic hunger swings

Most people think they need more discipline.
They actually need more minerals.

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4. It supports digestion — which is where your emotional regulation starts

Stress slows digestion.
Minerals and hydration restore it.

Coconut water contains natural enzymes + hydration + electrolytes =
🔥 smoother digestion
🔥 better nutrient absorption
🔥 less bloating
🔥 a calmer nervous system

A regulated gut = a regulated identity.
People underestimate this connection.

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5. It keeps your nervous system in “receive mode,” not “survival mode”

Dehydration is not a “water issue.”
It’s a mineral issue.

When minerals drop, your system flips into:
❌ anxiety
❌ overthinking
❌ emotional reactivity
❌ brain fog
❌ cravings
❌ fatigue

Coconut water replenishes the minerals required for safety — the state every high performer needs to operate from.

When your body feels safe, everything becomes easier:
consistency, clarity, self-trust, hunger cues, decisions.

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This is how you stay regulated, consistent, productive, and powerful — without forcing it.

High performers don’t chase more motivation.
They optimize the biology that holds their identity.

coconut water

Most people don’t struggle with gratitude.
They struggle with cortisol.

You’re not “bad at mindset.”
You’re not “blocked.”
You’re not “out of alignment.”

You’re just dysregulated.

And you can’t feel gratitude
when your nervous system is in threat mode and your cortisol is running the show.

Because:
Gratitude lives in reception.
Cortisol lives in protection.

Most high performers try to solve this backwards:
 • “Maybe I need to journal more.”
 • “Maybe I need a gratitude tracker.”
 • “Maybe I need to meditate longer.”
 • “Maybe I’m just not in the frequency yet.”

No.
You’re not disconnected.
You’re dysregulated.

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Here’s what regulation actually does:

💫 Gratitude feels natural, not forced
💫 Calm becomes your baseline
💫 Appreciation shows up automatically
💫 Presence becomes your default operating system

And here’s what dysregulation does:

❌ You say “I’m grateful,” but nothing lands
❌ You write affirmations with zero emotional charge
❌ You understand gratitude intellectually but feel nothing
❌ You try to override stress chemistry with mindset — and it doesn’t work

Why?

Because gratitude isn’t mental — it’s hormonal.

High cortisol blocks access to the emotional state gratitude requires.

Your body can’t receive
when it still thinks it needs to survive.

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If you want to actually FEEL gratitude — not just think it — fix your physiology.

Here are 4 actionable steps you can implement today:

1. Stabilize your blood sugar
Protein every 3–4 hours → lowers cortisol by giving your system predictable safety.

2. Add magnesium before bed
Magnesium glycinate ↓ stress chemistry, ↑ nervous system flexibility.

3. Walk 30–60 minutes daily
Walking clears cortisol faster than meditation for most high performers.

4. Do one thing that signals “I am safe”
Warm shower, infrared heat, breathwork, quiet mornings — anything that cues parasympathetic response.

These are not “wellness tasks.”

They are neurological inputs that tell your body:
“You can stop fighting.”

Regulation = emotional access.
Dysregulation = emotional shutdown.

Gratitude isn’t a mindset.
It’s a regulated physiological state.

They struggle with cortisol.

There are only two voices inside you:

1. The Voice of Safety (your Highest Self)

— calm
— grounded
— spaciou
— gentle
— neutral
— matter-of-fact
— rooted
— present

It never rushes.
It never panics.
It never dramatizes.

It feels like:
“This is the next step. You know.”

Even if the step is bold.
Even if it stretches you.

There is an underlying peace to it.

You feel lifted.
You feel expanded.
Your chest opens.
Your breath drops.
Your body softens.

This is divine guidance.

This is your truth.

2. The Voice of Survival (your old identity)

— tight
— pressured
— spinning
— chaotic
— urgent
— heavy
— analyzing
— protective
— “what if” looping
— catastrophizing

This voice tries to sound logical.

But its logic is built on old memories, old wounds, old fears, old patterns.

It feels like:
“I have to… or else.”

Your body contracts.
Your jaw tightens.
Your stomach drops.
Your breath shortens.

Your mind starts negotiating with itself.

That’s not intuition.

That’s trauma playing dress-up as wisdom

Ask: “Does this thought expand me or contract me?”

Your highest self always expands you.
Your survival self always shrinks you.

Ask: “Is this rooted in possibility or protection?”

Highest self = possibility.
Old identity = protection.

Ask: “Do I feel calm even if the idea is bold?”

If yes → highest self.
If no → old fear.

Ask: “Do I feel God in this decision?”

If yes → aligned direction.
If no → ego survival.

I’ve had to learn that the thoughts that make me shrink, negotiate, spiral, or suddenly question are never truth… they’re just patterns created from a dysregulated nervous system created by elevated cortisol levels. 

The real guidance?

It feels like peace.
It feels like inevitability.

It feels like, “Yeah… of course this is the next step.”

And the more you choose the voice that expands you, the quieter the other one becomes.

You’re evolving fast.

Choose the calm voice.
Choose the expansive voice.
Choose the God-led voice.

That’s the one that builds the future you’re walking into. 🔥💗✨

4 things to ask

Everyone thinks my business grows because of what I do inside my business.

No.

My income grows because of everything I invest in outside of it.

Because when I expand — my money expands.

When I regulate — my clarity sharpens.

When I honor my body — my leadership upgrades.

When I stop leaking energy — my capacity multiplies.

Here’s exactly what I invest in that makes me more money than any strategy ever has:

✨ Factor meals + InspiredGo
No cooking. No planning. Zero chaos.
Just regulated blood sugar + 15 extra hours a week to operate like a weapon.

✨ 30-day organic juice delivery
Hydration, minerals, energy — on autopilot.
No more spending 5 hours juicing every Saturday like a 1950s housewife in survival mode.

✨ A house cleaner
Because my energy is too expensive to waste on scrubbing baseboards.
A regulated environment = a regulated CEO.

✨ Infrared hot yoga
Cortisol drops. Fascia softens. Identity upgrades.
This is where I return to my power.

✨ The gym
Not for aesthetics — for emotional capacity and inner strength.
My body becomes the vessel that can hold everything I’m calling in.

✨ Red light therapy + red light tanning
Cellular repair meets feminine glow.
A frequency upgrade disguised as self-care.

✨ Supplements
Magnesium, DHA, probiotics, minerals, ashwagandha, pine bark.
This is how I regulate, stabilize, and execute at a level most people never touch.

All of this gives me back 20+ hours a week, lowers cortisol, sharpens my intuition, and keeps me aligned with the identity that prints money.

Because the women making the most money aren’t the ones doing the most…
they’re the ones regulated enough to lead at their highest frequency.

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Most women misread their healing as “failure.”
They interpret cortisol releasing as:
 • inconsistency
 • emotional chaos
 • cravings
 • puffiness
 • low motivation

When in reality?
It was the body unwinding survival.

You were never fighting food.
You were fighting stored cortisol, trapped fascia, and years of bracing.

Your “symptoms” were not sabotage —
they were release codes.

Every moment you blamed yourself was actually a moment your body was trying to free you:

 • Bloat = digestion turning back online
 • Cravings = nervous system regulation
 • Exhaustion = adrenaline shutting off
 • Emotions = cortisol leaving the fascia
 • Puffiness = inflammation clearing
 • Random soreness = trauma pockets releasing

Your biology was healing.
Your mind just mislabeled it.

Your body wasn’t punishing you.
Your body was finally trusting you enough to let go of what was never meant to stay.

Because healing never looks like:
pushing harder
trying to be perfect
controlling every meal

Healing looks like:
safety
release
hydration
movement
breath
minerals
nervous system stability

This is the moment women realize:
“It was never the food — it was the cortisol.”

You are not inconsistent.
You are not emotional.
You are not “starting over.”

You are becoming the woman whose body no longer braces for life.

The woman whose fascia is free.
The woman who doesn’t live in survival.
The woman whose cravings quiet because her system is finally safe.
The woman who drops inflammation, bloating, water retention, and emotional chaos…

simply by letting the old energy release.

This is not a setback.
This is your rebirth.

If this hit you in your core…
your body is already releasing the version of you who lived in hypervigilance.

You’re not breaking down.
You’re breaking through.

And if you want to learn how to lead your body through this with consciousness, regulation, and identity… tap the follow button.

cortisol = dysregulated

You can run circles around anyone.
You can hold it all together.
You can do in a day what most can’t do in a week.

You’re the one people come to when they fall apart —
but lately, you’re the one craving a place to fall too.

Because you’re realizing this:

You don’t struggle to rest because you’re ambitious.
You struggle to rest because somewhere inside, you still believe:

“If I slow down, something bad will happen.”
“If I’m not producing, I’m not protected.”
“If I stop, I’ll lose everything I built.”
“Rest = vulnerability. Performance = safety.”

That’s not mindset.
That’s survival coding.

And it’s the same energy that’s been running your business, your body, and your bank account.

You think your addiction is to work — but it’s really to predictability.
You think you’re driven — but you’re actually bracing.
You think you need a better schedule — but what you really need is safety.

When you grew up in instability — emotional, financial, relational —
your nervous system learned:

“I’m only safe when I’m in control.”

And now, it shows up as:
→ Overworking
→ Hyper-independence
→ Micromanaging yourself
→ Constant scanning for what still needs to be done

Your body isn’t addicted to productivity.
Your body is addicted to never feeling unsafe again.

But high performers don’t need to learn how to rest.
They need to rewire why they don’t feel safe resting.

Because when you don’t trust rest —
you don’t actually trust abundance.

You trust effort.
You trust output.
You trust the grind.

You trust the version of you who “can always figure it out.”

But you don’t yet trust the one who says:

“God provides even when I’m still.”
“Nothing collapses when I rest.”
“I am safe even when I’m not performing.”

That’s a nervous system issue.

1️⃣ Regulate the body — lower cortisol so stillness doesn’t feel like danger.
2️⃣ Calibrate the spirit — shift from “I am the source” to “I am resourced consistently no matter how much I do today”

That’s how you stop holding everything together
and finally let yourself be held.

Because the most powerful women I know?
They’re not performing peace.

They’re living it. 🤌💥

power meets power

You say you trust yourself… but the moment something shifts outside of you 
a slow sales day, a triggering conversation, a dip in energy your internal world wobbles.

You call it “stress.”
You call it “overwhelm.”
You call it “being human.”

You’re still letting the external dictate who you are internally.

Which means your identity is below you.

You haven’t fully stepped into the version of you who says:
“I decide who I am — not my bank balance, not my body, not the algorithm, not the noise.”

You’re not choosing the identity that stretches you.
You’re choosing the one that keeps you safe.

Predictable.
Comfortable.
Neutral.

And that’s exactly why your results are lukewarm.

Not bad.
Not failing.

Just… average.

Because unrealistic outcomes don’t come from an identity that shifts every time life throws a breeze at you.

You can’t hold multi million-dollar decisions with a mindset that shakes every time something goes “wrong.”

You can keep living in reaction,
letting your mood dictate your leadership,
letting circumstances dictate your confidence,
letting old patterns dictate your power 

and wonder why things aren’t expanding the way you know they should.

Or…

You can anchor into a Non Circumstantial Identity, the version of you whose power is not for negotiation. 

The version of you who knows:
✨ My thoughts create my reality.
✨ My inner world leads — my outer world follows.
✨ When I stay rooted in love, no weapon can prosper.
✨ When my identity is anchored, nothing outside of me can shake me.

Because when your identity stops wobbling?

Your certainty becomes undeniable.
Your frequency becomes unshakeable.
Your leadership becomes magnetic.
Your results become inevitable.

You stop reacting.
You start deciding.

You move like someone who already has evidence because you understand the evidence comes after the embodiment.

This is the identity that holds power in any room.
This is the identity that sees opportunities where others see stress.
This is the identity that evolves without collapsing.
This is the identity that God elevates — because it’s built on truth, not circumstances.

Your next level won’t come from more strategy.
It will come from the moment you say:

“I am not moved by anything outside of me ever again.”

And if you want support creating that non circumstantial identity, my work is absolutely for you.

You’d stop thinking negative thoughts all the time…
if you stopped trying to “fix” them like a problem.

Let me explain.

When you start a diet — you don’t expect perfection.
You expect progress.

You’ll probably have a cheat meal.
You’ll crave old foods.
You might feel guilt or shame for it.

But you know that the goal isn’t to never slip up again —
it’s to reduce the frequency.

Your mind works the same way.

When you start rewiring your brain and upgrading your identity,
you’ll still have intrusive thoughts.
You’ll still have moments where you spiral.
You’ll still have emotions that come up.

The goal isn’t to flip a magical switch and suddenly “never think negatively again.”
It’s to reduce how often you go there.

That shift happens naturally when your body feels safe.

Because the truth is:
you don’t have a mindset problem.
You have a cortisol problem.

When cortisol is high, your brain thinks it’s protecting you —
by scanning for everything that could go wrong.

So instead of trying to “think more positively,”
focus on regulating your body.

That’s how I rewired mine. 👇🏼

→ Infrared hot yoga
→ Lifting weights
→ Walking 1–4 hours a day
→ Amino acids + protein shakes
→ Salad + dinner subscription boxes
→ Whole body vibration therapy
→ Breathwork
→ Daily supplements
→ Standing or walking desk
→ Sea mud facials
→ Dry brushing
→ Tanning

None of it was about control.
It was about rhythm.

The more I lived in rhythm, the quieter my negative thoughts became.

Because a regulated nervous system doesn’t need to overanalyze,
spiral, or control.

It just knows.
It just trusts.
It just moves.

You don’t think positive thoughts by force.
You become the person whose body already believes they’re safe.

stop thinking negative

I don’t rely on motivation.
I rely on the internal harmony that makes me unstoppable.

Why High-Performers Take L-Arginine

💓 1. Supports Heart Health
 • Boosts nitric oxide → expands blood vessels → improves circulation
 • Helps maintain healthy blood pressure
 • Enhances oxygen delivery throughout the body

🔥 2. Naturally Supports HGH Release
 • Especially effective when taken on an empty stomach
 • Supports muscle density, strength, recovery, and fat loss
 • Helps maintain youthful metabolism + collagen production

🏋🏼‍♀️ 3. Enhances Physical Performance
 • Increases blood flow to muscles
 • Improves endurance + stamina
 • Supports better pumps and activation during training

⏱️ 4. Accelerates Recovery
 • Faster muscle repair
 • Reduced soreness
 • Increased training capacity (more output, less burnout)

⚡ 5. Boosts Energy + Mental Clarity
 • More oxygen = more alertness
 • Better nutrient delivery to the brain and muscles
 • Helps you feel “warm” and switched on

🍃 6. Regulates Metabolic Function
 • Supports insulin sensitivity
 • Improves nutrient uptake
 • Helps stabilize blood sugar through better circulation

🧬 7. Supports Cellular Repair + Healing
 • Accelerates tissue repair
 • Enhances collagen formation
 • Aids in wound healing and structural integrity

🧘‍♀️ 8. Reduces Stress on the Body
 • Better circulation reduces the load on your adrenal system
 • Helps the body return to homeostasis more easily
 • Supports hormone balance indirectly

🔥 9. Strengthens Immune Function
 • Aids immune cell production
 • Supports inflammation balance
 • Helps the body stay resilient under stress

Who L-Arginine Is For
 • High-performing women building muscle, capacity, or confidence
 • Founders/CEOs wanting better recovery + mental clarity
 • Women healing metabolism + cortisol dysregulation
 • Anyone wanting better circulation, energy, and hormonal support
 • Anyone who wants to feel younger, stronger, clearer, and more regulated

Follow me for more simple daily upgrades that make you unstoppable 🫶

Here’s why I’ve taken L-Arginine

The Reason You Feel Held Back Isn’t Because You’re Behind… It’s Because You’ve Outgrown the Room

The brighter you become,
the more you illuminate the places and people who cannot rise with you.

The more aligned you are,
the more misalignment reveals itself.

The more whole you become,
the more obvious every fractured space looks in comparison.

And here’s where you get stuck:

You think life should get easier the more you evolve…

So when limitations appear, you try to “fix” the limitations.
Make them comfortable.
Shrink yourself to fit the environment.
Lower your frequency just to keep the peace.

And that’s why you feel held back.

That’s why progress feels slow.

Not because you’re failing —
but because you’re still attached to the rooms you no longer belong in.

You’re trying to operate at full wattage in environments designed for dimmer people.

Just like clinging to past clients prevents new ones from arriving…
clinging to past versions of yourself prevents your next level from landing.

There will be people who stay as you rise.
There will be people who simply cannot meet you at your new altitude.
There will be dynamics that fall away even though you “worked so hard” to outgrow them.
There will be identities that dissolve the moment your consciousness expands.
There will be doors that close so loudly it rattles your nervous system.

And it’s all okay.
It’s actually divine.

But your attachment to what can’t come with you?

That’s the only thing slowing you down.

Your attachment distracts you.
Your attachment dilutes your clarity.
Your attachment delays your ascension because you’re still trying to drag the old life into the new one.

Here’s what the expanded version of you already knows:
👉🏼 Your growth will always expose what’s too small for you now.
👉🏼 Your healed self can’t tolerate what the wounded self once accepted.
👉🏼 Your upgraded identity will naturally clash with people and spaces rooted in an outdated frequency.
👉🏼 Your job isn’t to fix the limitations — it’s to outgrow them.
👉🏼 Your only responsibility is to stay in your light, stay in your lane, stay in your leadership.

You don’t dim your brilliance to match the room.
You choose a new room.

You don’t contort yourself to make misaligned dynamics feel stable.
You let them fall away.

You don’t shrink just because others are uncomfortable with who you’ve become.
You rise anyway.

The highest version of you has a life to lead.
A destiny to embody.
A calling to honor.
A frequency to maintain.

She does not negotiate with limitation.
She does not apologize for her evolution.
She does not cling to what cannot withstand who she’s becoming.

Your next level is not being delayed —
it’s being revealed.

One limitation at a time.
One room at a time.
One identity shift at a time.

Stay devoted to the woman you’re becoming.

The world will adjust.

The brighter you become

Here’s how to shift it RIGHT NOW:

1. Trust yourself and trust your first instinct.
Your body knows the truth before your mind speaks.

⸻

2. Move in peace and with love in all moments — not pressure or fear.
Your system opens when safety leads your steps. Every moment is working for your good, in your favour.

⸻

3. Say “I love my life” every single morning.
This uses neuroplasticity to rewire your thought patterns, shift your frequency, and lower cortisol.

⸻

4. Notice thoughts that no longer serve you without blaming yourself.
Be grateful in that moment for the awareness and expansion present in you. Evolution is your purpose.

⸻

5. Choose breath intentionally all day long and make recalibration a part of how you operate and move.
Taking steps and listening to your body to consistently calibrate through breath and movement makes it easier to stay balanced and in your flow.

⸻

6. Speak from your future identity.
Stop speaking your current existence into reality.
For example, if you’re losing weight and you consistently wake up and say, “I’m not there yet,” you will continue to create that reality.
If you say, “I’m worried about revenue or sales,” you will create something to worry about.

Speaking from your future identity sounds like:
“I’m so grateful I’m at my ideal weight.”
“I’m so happy now that I’m exactly where I want to be.”
“My body is consistently healing every single day.”
“I release what no longer belongs to me.”
“I invite ease and joy into my days and business.”

This will give you better outcomes and better opportunities.

⸻

7. Celebrate your small wins with real gratitude daily.
Say, “I love how I showed up today.”
Every time you go to the gym, tell yourself: “I’m so happy to be here right now. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to increase my capacity and move at a new level. My body is healing and becoming stronger.”

Don’t complain about the pain or how sore your legs are.
Shift your inner dialogue to:
“I’m releasing stuck energy from my body.”
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to grow this muscle.”
“Thank you for pushing my capacity and expanding me today.”

⸻

Change the way you communicate with you.

Your Attachment to How Is the Only Thing Slowing Down Your Money

You’re not capped because you’re unskilled.
You’re not plateaued because you’re missing strategy.
You’re not “blocked.”

You’re gripping the how.

And the more tightly you grip the pathway…
the slower the money moves.

Here’s the real reason you haven’t normalized the income you know you’re meant for:

You’re trying to control the route instead of embodying the inevitability.

You’re watching the timeline.
Trying to micromanage the outcomes.
Overthinking the mechanics of every desire.

“How is it going to come?”
“When will it show up?”
“What’s the exact pathway?”

And every time the timeline shifts?

You lead from fear instead of truth.

At your level?

You’re unavailable for that.

You’re too powerful to be micromanaging the universe.
You’re too anointed to be obsessed with logistics.
You’re too called to still be living in survival timelines.

Here’s what you think you’re doing:

→ Being responsible
→ Making smart decisions
→ “Staying realistic”
→ Protecting yourself from disappointment

Here’s what you’re actually doing:

→ Locking your nervous system out of overflow
→ Rejecting abundance before it lands
→ Disrupting momentum with over-calculation
→ Slowing down blessings that were already on their way

If you want to normalize big money as your baseline, then:

👉🏼 Stop dictating how the blessing should arrive
👉🏼 Stop needing proof before you trust
👉🏼 Stop disrupting the flow with timelines, fear, and control

Your only job is to hold the frequency.

The universe handles the mechanics.

When you release the compulsion to control the details?

Your field expands.
Money speeds up.
Clients appear out of nowhere.
Opportunities open effortlessly.
Solutions land in ways you never could’ve planned.

Because when you stop forcing the path…
you align with the path that was already yours.

This is when money becomes easy.
This is when momentum compounds.
This is when overflow becomes your normal.

Your desires were never the problem.
Your gifts were never the problem.
Your strategy was never the problem.

Your attachment was.

When you stop gripping the how
and start embodying the woman who already has it…

The income accelerates.
The blessings multiply.
The results stabilize.
The expansion becomes undeniable.

If you’re ready to move like the result is inevitable—
to release the micro-control
and step into the timeline where things happen instantly…

You already know what your next move is.

Your attachment

Everyone thinks cravings mean lack of discipline.
But high-performers know the truth:

Your cravings are communication.
And tomato + salt is literally your adrenals speaking.

Here’s what it actually means ⬇️

1. Tomato + salt = cortisol imbalance.

When cortisol is elevated, your body burns potassium + sodium faster.
You’ll crave foods that restore:

• minerals
• hydration
• electrolytes
• stomach acid
• adrenal stability

Tomatoes give you potassium.
Salt stabilizes adrenal function.

Your body isn’t “cheating.”
It’s correcting.

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2. Here are the exact supplements that stabilize this:

• Magnesium glycinate → lowers cortisol, supports adrenal glands
• Potassium citrate → replaces what stress burns through
• Electrolyte powder (no sugar) → sodium + potassium balance
• DHA → repairs stress-damaged nerves + gut-brain axis
• Probiotics → improve digestion so cravings settle
• Ashwagandha → regulates cortisol rhythm
• Pine Bark → reduces inflammation + stabilizes stress hormones

⸻

3. How to know if the craving is healthy or dysregulated:

Healthy craving:
• comes with calm
• feels clean and intuitive
• feels like “this will help my body”
• no urgency, no panic
• you can stop when satisfied

Dysregulated craving:
• feels urgent
• comes with guilt
• feels like emotional impulsivity
• happens when stressed, overstimulated, or underslept
• comes from depletion, not desire

The body always tells on itself.
The tone of the craving tells you everything.

⸻

4. My mineral protocol to stop food fear + stabilize cravings:

Morning:
• 1 scoop electrolytes
• 300–400mg magnesium
• DHA with breakfast

Midday:
• protein every 3–4 hours
• pink salt in water
• probiotics with lunch

Evening:
• magnesium glycinate
• ashwagandha
• mineral-rich whole foods
• walking + breathwork

This shifts your system from survival → safety
and cravings transform automatically.

⸻

5. When your nervous system is regulated, cravings change.

You stop craving:
❌ chaos foods
❌ “quick fixes”
❌ adrenaline hits
❌ salty binge cycles
❌ sugar crashes

You start craving:
✔ clean
✔ cold
✔ mineral-rich
✔ hydrating
✔ supportive

Your cravings become guidance, not guilt.

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