I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
the Weekly Note Vol. 91
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I hope you had a great weekend--let's get to this week's Notes... 📝 this week's Daily Notes1.19.26 #1099 when you have a good thing 1.20.26 #1100 are you really living? 1.22.26 #1101 appreciate YOU 1.23.26 #1102 your brain's frequency 1.24.26 #1103 get some rest 1.25.26 #1104 follow your bliss 📺 AlignedLife Podcast: Building A Creative Vision Without Quitting Your Day Job With Rashan BrownSpotify In this conversation, I sit down with Rashan Brown—spoken word poet, founder of Poetry Me Please, and someone who's masterfully building his creative vision alongside a full-time career. What started with heartbreak in high school and a fascination with battle rap has evolved into a platform that's bringing spoken word poetry to stages like Brooklyn's Kings Theatre. Rashan's journey is the perfect example of what's possible when you commit to your authentic path without sacrificing financial stability. We dig into the real challenges of entrepreneurship—the events that profit, the ones that don't, and why he views every "loss" as an investment in Poetry Me Please's future. He shares how having a nine-to-five has actually given him the freedom to take creative risks without the pressure of needing every event to generate revenue. We also explore the deeper "why" behind Poetry Me Please—how it's become a vehicle for healing, community building, and creating spaces where artists can express themselves authentically. Rashan opens up about the internal work required to sustain this vision, the importance of conviction over certainty, and those early breadcrumb moments (like performing Maya Angelou at Virginia Tech with Nikki Giovanni) that pointed toward his future. This conversation is for anyone who's ever felt torn between creative passion and practical reality. Rashan proves you don't have to choose—you can build both, one intentional step at a time. 📺 AlignedLife BlogMoney's Real Power "Like a microphone turned up too loud, money increases the volume of whatever is already moving through us–our values, our fears, our integrity, our insecurity. This is why money feels so charged. It doesn't just support our lives; it reflects our inner state back to us in high definition." 🦅 OmensAuthenticist I created a new meaning for an uncommon word; Rick Rubin encouraged me to share it in the latest Omen. See you next week (or tomorrow) and keep pursuing, JC |
connect spirit, mind, body, and money w/ Justin Castelli
I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
Joseph Campbell on “hidden hands”, It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time–namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be...
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives bountiful crops.” -Ovid I spent all day Wednesday in bed. Not by choice, though. Tuesday evening, a nasty stomach virus came over me and left me with aches, chills, and feeling like I had been hit by a bus. I cancelled my Wednesday meetings because I knew there was no way I’d be feeling better, and on the rare chance that I did, I wasn’t about to risk passing whatever I had on to my clients. So that set my Wednesday up to be a day of...
“When you make a decision, you flip your brain onto a different frequency. You begin to attract whatever is on that frequency.” -Bob Proctor What and who are you attracting? See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC