"My biggest breakthrough being here was realizing how much I want to play guitar again".
This was a biotech startup founder, a neuroscience PhD who specializes in psychedelic research, who had spent much of the retreat we hosted running back and forth between pitches to raise a few million in investment capital for his venture.
I couldn't hide my grin. I grit my teeth and clenched my fists to try to hold back how giddy hearing that made me.
We (kind of) advertised the "God-Sized Dream" as a business mastermind retreat.
But when we rallied the 13 entrepreneurs for a week in the Sacred Valley of Peru to face their souls, many of the breakthroughs had to do less with strategy, systems, and funnels...
...and more bringing more life to what people were calling their "life's work".
One attendee realized that she didn't want to run an online business at all.
She owned that if she was really being honest and stopped "shoulding" all over herself, what she REALLY wanted was to combine fun community events and outdoor adventures with her calling to teach Qi Gong (she's already hosted her first event within weeks of getting home, and it went amazing).
People who came expecting to talk about ad strategy, marketing content, and sales instead ended up connecting with their suppressed desires, moving emotions they avoided for years, and connecting with an authentic expression they never let themselves feel.
And whatya know, cool stuff started happening in their businesses when people were letting go, feeling their feelings, allowing themselves to be fully seen, and getting aligned.
One business owner sold her first ever high ticket offer (a teacher training, thousands paid in full)... while she was in the middle of taking our workshop, without having to do a sales call.
A fitness coach and self-professed workaholic who "needs self control to step away from work" made close to $20,000 in sales over the week with his team without doing anything himself (other than connecting with cool people and hiking through the Andes mountains with us).
The biggest "A-HA's" in our "business retreat" seemed to be that they were thinking too much about business and not enough about who they are and what they actually want.
Burying their soul underneath frameworks, strategies, and data analytics.
Creating personas, performing, and creating content in ways they thought they "should" -- but was further disconnecting them from what they ACTUALLY thought, felt, and wanted to convey.
Now, don't get me wrong; we talked about strategy. We ran epic workshops on how to create DOPE offers that people actually want to be a part of (hint: it's creating things that you actually want to be a part of). We masterminded, tweaked some business knobs, and had inside jokes about Google Calendar.
But the real impact was a shift in orientation.
If I were to distill it, I'd boil it down to this:
There's only a handful of things that ACTUALLY contributes to experiencing not just material success, but also soul-level fulfilment. And when you shift these things, it produces instant, miraculous-seeming results that seem to come out of nowhere.
- Connect to your genuine, God-given desire (not your fear, or your conditioning) and figure out what you ACTUALLY want. Most people are trying to force themselves to do things they don't actually want to do, and no amount of strategy will ever fix that.
- Get into INTEGRITY with yourself by moving towards the things that you know you're avoiding; the emotions you're not letting yourself feel, the conversation you're putting off, the responsibility you're refusing to take. You're losing massive amounts of energy by trying to suppress, distract, and backwards-rationalize your way out of confronting these things and real "ALIGNMENT" is when you reclaim that energy by confronting these things.
- Shift your subconscious beliefs that you have about yourself, about success, and about what you need to do in your business -- because it doesn't matter how much you SAY you want something if your subconscious believes you DON'T.
- Make SPACE in your life for the thing you want - and that's not just "free time on your calendar". That's being hyper fucking clear on what you're not available for and setting clear, explicit boundaries (with yourself and in your relationships).
(and don't use AI to write your content or come up with offers for you lol)
As someone who is obsessed with getting real results, and has run the gamut from habit psychology, Law of Attraction, Hormozi-style grind, and Gary V level volume,
I'm certain that these are the actual levers to pull.
This is what takes the handbrake off from someone's forward momentum, this is what puts the soul back into a person's fuel tank and slingshots them past whatever sticking point they're in.
And as much as you can nod along and logically agree with what you just read, as great as that might SOUND, telling you about "getting into energetic integrity" isn't the same as you actually going and having that hard conversation that makes your palms sweat and chokes you with the knot in your throat.
You can acknowledge that you could "shift your subconscious beliefs", but that's not the same thing as taking the time to put yourself in a suggestive state and brainwash yourself with a hypnosis geared towards congruent belief in yourself.
The other big revelation at the retreat (for myself especially)?
Information doesn't change shit.
Experiences and taking new actions do.
Which is why, after deciding to close my Skool community, QX Coaches (another revelation from the retreat, and a story for another time)...
...I'm going all-in on creating experiences for people that produce profound, near-instant, and lasting TRANSFORMATION, right down to the subconscious level.
On Wednesday, June 10th, I'm going to be hosting a 2-hour transformational workshop with my partner, Sol Saint-Germaine, who's been rearranging peoples' minds as a hypnotherapist for 14 years.
The workshop, called Consistent Clients, is something she's run for 5 years now, and has some of the craziest testimonials (IE, instant, miraculous-seeming, "magic") that I've ever seen on any offer, ever -- and I've seen a lot of 'em.
Things like people texting her saying they've just signed 3 high ticket clients within 3 hours of the workshop after not getting any sales for months. People growing their IG page by hundreds of thousands of new followers. People needing to start waitlists for their 1-on-1 work. (and that's only some of the crazy testimonials posted on the website)
It's not more information or strategy. It's a live, reality-bending hypnotherapy-infused experience that will entirely shift the way you think about (and go about) client attraction.
I will warn you: If you're a coach, this will mess you up in an unexpected way.
The first time I experienced this work, it rearranged what I believed was important for getting results and creating actual transformations with people.
I realized that most of the work I was doing, both in my business, and with my clients, was a waste of fucking time. It flipped my whole practice and belief system on my head, and changed the way that I coach forever.
So yeah, it'll get you more clients, create more internal freedom than you've ever known, align you to Truth and your dharma, but the cost is, you can't "unsee" the things you see, and it might turn everything you thought you knew on its head.
But, if you're ready to live in that timeline, come hang out with us and get your mind blasted for two hours. $88 early bird -> Price goes up to $200 Tuesday, June 2nd.
PS- At the end of the retreat, we all made commitments to do more of the things that we really want to do, to align our actions to our dharma/life purpose. One of my commitments was to write more, with more emotion and soul. So you'll be seeing these emails drop in (ideally Sundays) a lot more again moving forward.
Big love,
A
