I hope you had a great week!

This week was busy and highly creative; I'm excited to share one of the ideas that came out of it when the time is right. Ang and I will be working on building something, which is exciting for me because it means I'll finally have the opportunity to work with her. As a subscriber to The Weekly Note, you will be the first to know.

This week, you'll notice a slight change at the bottom of this email. In addition to sharing a video that I see the Authentic Life in, I'm also going to start sharing videos, podcasts, and articles I'm reading each week. You'll see this was a great week of hip-hop content for me.

Ok, let's get to this week's Notes...

📝 this week's Daily Notes

3.23.26 #1158 the privilege of a lifetime​

3.24.26 #1159 bring forth what is within you​

3.25.26 #1160 give it away to keep it​

3.26.26 #1161 give flowers​

3.27.26 #1162 do you dream?​

3.28.26 #1163 the authentic life manifesto v.1​

3.29.26 #1164 the impact of your thoughts​

🎙️ AlignedLife: The Alohana Moment: Peace, Purpose & Planning with Ohan Kayikchyan | Convos With Friends

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What does it mean to live beyond the numbers, and what happens when a financial planner starts writing from the heart? In this episode, I sit down with Ohan Kayikchyan, financial planner and founder of Alohana Financial, to explore how he's building a practice rooted in life planning, self-reflection, and authentic connection.

We dig into the origin of Alohana Moments — his personal blog combining the Hawaiian concepts of aloha (peace, meaning, harmony) and ohana (family, no one left behind) — and why he started writing it for himself first.

Ohan shares his remarkable journey from Soviet-era Armenia to the United States, navigating a new language, a new culture, and a financial industry that didn't always have space for the deeper questions he wanted to ask.

Along the way, we talk about what it really means to create for yourself, the difference between contentment and comfort, and why life planning is one of the most powerful — and still underused — tools in the profession. We also get into:

• The EVOKE process Ohan uses with clients to build a vision-first financial plan
• Why the first three meetings don't touch numbers — and why that works
• What contentment actually means (and how it's different from comfort)
• Why "doing it for yourself first" isn't selfish — it's the foundation

If you've been feeling like there's more to life than the financial plan you've been handed, this one's for you.
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📝 AlignedLife Blog

​The Authentic Life Manifesto (v.1) "But I still struggle to find a short and simple explanation of the Authentic Life.

So, I thought writing a manifesto, which I know will evolve over time, was a great way to put out an explanation I can direct someone to."

🦅 Omens

No Omens this week.

📺 The Authentic Life On Other Shows and What I've Been Consuming

From time to time, I listen to a conversation, and all I can hear is other people talking about the Authentic Life.

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What else I Read/Watched/Listened To

📝 The Art of Wandering: Today?​

📺 J.Cole on 7PM in Brooklyn​

📺 J. Cole on Talk With Flee​

📺 Russ at SXSW, Make Your Own Wave​

There were a lot of great hip-hop shows/podcasts to watch this week.

🎧 Unlocked by George Mumford Every car ride with Roman has been spent listening to George narrate this book; my attempt to help open Roman to meditation.

See you next week (or tomorrow) and keep pursuing,

JC