It’s time to wake up to your greatest JOY; the 3.0 Journey Of You.

Skip the resolutions or even positive thinking goal setting. Discover the Truth that sets you free.
Are you ready to ignite the real root of your power to unleash a whole new authenticity in your inspired leadership
and being in love with your whole life?

2026 is a potent ”LEAP” year for a 3.0 Version of you to emerge. IT might be A healthy restlessness OR another level of growth Calling YOur true spirit.
Do you feel this in you?

It may emanate as a whisper from your soul, not your mind’s wish or seeker-achiever aspirations. In the privilege of working with bright leaders and complex human beings for 28 years, I’ve learned how essential it is to align with the right energy before embarking on a new year (or conscious creation of anything that matters to you). I now have a humbling appreciation for the one game-changing lead orientation; What energy am I coming from? Begin to notice how this runs deeper than your “Why” or typical purpose work. It’s tapping into your true inner source power and thus the root, root cause of your authentic flourishing or flatlining.  

I want you to be waking up inspired and falling asleep grateful & proud (of who you are being, how you are investing your precious energy).

Until we have an intimate relationship with our true ESSENCE, we’ll make agreements with mediocrity.
– Michael Beckwith

If you are feeling inspired and called forth or confused, excited or uncertain, frustrated or on fire, exhausted or enthused or all of the above- welcome! You are in the just-right place.

Let’s explore the power and momentum of this super-smart PAUSE together; Presence Allowing Unlimited Source Emergence. If we don’t practice and master this kind of pause, we end up coming from default limited thinking without even realizing that’s whats happening.

Please allow the invitation of a new future and way of creating your best life-livelihood-leadership to settle in your heart and seep into your bones. There’s such a potent opportunity for unleashing your greatest potential at the turning point of this new year. Dare I say the dawn of a new era!

The mountain must be shaped by the sea, not the other way around.
– S.B. Ocean

“I don’t have time”

Let’s say that your life is not in crisis or just “fine.” You might think you don’t have time (or need?) for transformational growth exploration right now. And there’s something else that won’t leave you alone. Like a “divine discontent” or fabulous future pull that keeps knocking. Something in you knows there is a greater possibility; the most potent fulfillment and gifts only you bring that are not fully realized.  

Most people slip into a slow drip descent into a life less than what you are here for. This might not be on the surface of your mental awareness. So, give yourself the gift of pausing and check inside. What resonates in the radical self-honesty of your deeper heart and belly as you read this?

However you’re feeling, take advantage of this time to explore smart set up for a radical new way of living and leading by the end of 2026 and beyond!

Why do resolutions not stick?

Resolutions don’t work because they often come from “should” energy, stemming from guilt or something we want to correct. We set ourselves up to fail from the get go, expecting to accomplish them primarily with more focus and discipline.

Do you ever feel like a year-end gorilla comes in to sit on your chest, pointing out various “not enoughs” and how the year has not measured up? Or maybe a complacency sets in with “good enoughs” becoming the enemy of your greater joy, prosperity and impact.

There is a much wiser way to create a genuinely fulfilling, prosperous 2026 and really have a chance at creating a whole new world in sync with your true self and possibilities our left brains can’t even imagine.

What does work?

What does work is a new approach, shifting into a very different inner fuel/infinitely-sourced inspiration beyond normal thinking, goal-setting, et al and then a different kind of smart set-up and support.

In our new mastery sessions, you’ll have a chance to engage with useful tools such as:

• Diving deeper into what’s running you from your “inner board of directors” and consciously create new intentions

• Celebration inventory (what you appreciate appreciates in pragmatic action)

• Authenticity and Aliveness Audits

• Transforming disappointments into desires

• Catching habit patterns and fueling new freedom

• Releasing limitations, old stories and former winning strategies

• Clear the way for Visioning to come from deeper-higher energy, letting new emergence, greater possibilities flow forward…. lean into generating the new 3.0 future. :-)

I had an eye-opening, heart-pounding conversation with a former client who was about to make a big decision in her business and life. What started as a brief Happy New Year call blossomed into an hour-plus MLA (Mastery of Leadership Arts) session/workout for both of us that had us laughing and a bit in awe with respect for the value of that kind of pausing, challenging, exploring “under the hood,” and asking the right questions! One nugget to share is that we prevented a possible betrayal of her true self and authentic potential (never mind some unnecessary distress, resentment, etc.) She’s now way more empowered to set herself up to have an amazing year and beyond. We helped her step into her sovereignty and make prosperous choices coming from a “real queen” rather than a possible inner girl in a queen’s costume coming from lack (without realizing that was happening), trying to succeed and keep her safe and happy. We revealed unexamined assumptions, hidden fears, the dangers of cultural norms and well-intended but limiting advice from others. She’s now equipped to step forward making prosperous, wise choices for the inspired leadership & life she gets to enjoy and pay forward.

This is a perfect time to pause and consider your own “proactive self-betrayal prevention” and really setting yourself up to create what could be a turning point year for you! (You don’t need to have any big decisions to explore right now. Just taking advantage of thoughtfully creating your next chapter is big enough.)     

I’ve seen the power of clients really pausing to dive deeper into what’s running them from the inside and consciously create new intentions coming from a very different energy. They are celebrating…

Don’t cheat yourself with well-intended positive attitude stuff that ends up being like pink frosting on a hot cake (looks good at first, melts off, mess underneath ) and almost cruel. There’s a temptation to end up in territory that subtly says you’ve been a bad girl or boy and now you’re going to clean up your act once and for all. Don’t go there and don’t let others push you there. How well does that truly motivate you? 

Also, please have unconditional compassion for this as just part of human nature. If you’re reading this, chances are we share a journey of wanting to be our best self and helping others to bring out their best. Ironically, that can be self-abandoning, with adaptive, addictive habits that no longer serve you!

The fantastic news is the secret to your unique prosperity and impact has been suppressed and now it wants to come out to play. How are you really feeling? Don’t answer quickly. :-)

You might sense not wanting to just stay in business as usual, yet not know how to stop the habit patterns that keep trying to be good (and follow well-intended cultural norms and even coaching advice). It might feel weird, exciting, scary, and confusing. Something is inviting you to wake up to a new way of being and doing. Maybe you’ve had the rug pulled out from under you in the past or felt betrayed somehow. So, a subconscious protective part of you inhibits you from going for the gold you are meant to enjoy. There is a new alchemy we can teach you. :-)

I’m fascinated with what it really takes to let go of old success formulas and false beliefs hiding in your inner closet, trying to run you. We keep gaining mastery at how to upgrade our inner programming, and liberate your inspired “Oooooh” momentum in embodied flow forward. Aaaah, if you only could open those secret gates. 😊 You can! We can help you!

This is possible. Actually, it’s time.

To truly liberate your inspired self, you must witness and welcome what’s been in the way. Especially what you could not see with your surface awareness. The subconcsious programming running us is SUB-conscious! We don’t know the bugs in our system. And even if we gain awareness, we are not taught well how to update and upgrade our inner operating systems.

The MLA ways are very different than positive wall paper (over “negativity”) approaches that a lot of coaching and leadership training still perpetuate. It’s different than most therapy models that provide empathic listening but don’t shift us out of those victim-entrapping stories. I want you to be fully liberated and empowered!

It feels like we’ve cracked the real code after 28 years experimenting in the inspired leadership lab, my own revelations from “shattered to shining,” more study with new paradigm teachings and road-testing with willing clients.

I am blown away in the privilege of being able to awaken the powerful Sacred inside of you that’s been hiding underneath the scared. We get to discover a gateway to your Essence flowing rather than exhausting efforting. :-)

I’m so excited to be able to come from a new center of inner calm, lion’s heart courage, humility, presence and a river of JOY emerging as this unstoppable force that wants to be your champion and catalyst partner in liberating your absolute authentic, radiant, joy-full self and the gifts only you are here to unleash, no kidding.

Life can be quite a ride and we need the right kind of support at the right times. You don’t need to feel shattered to end up shining. We can midwife your real potential by conscious choice (and willingness to explore self-discovery growth beyond the typical pep talks, etc. that have not allowed the shift wanting to happen in how you really feel and get to show up for your brightest possible future).

I have a grateful full belly of working with clients with a new confidence that we are just beginning to play with a goldmine of gifts to change our lives and yep, be the change for our collective new future.

It really is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, and then your life and leadership becomes a gift to the world.

Are you curious about how to access your real power and finally find your wings?

AWARENESS & AUDIT 

Inspired Inventories; 1) Celebrations 2) Disappointments 3) Habits & New Freedom 4) Success Audit/Blank Canvas exercise

The idea is to reflect on these inventories before declaring intentions for the new year/new phase. This might also be a non-linear process. Let’s discuss what works best for you.

 Module 1

Celebration  

Do yourself and the world a favor by starting with a Celebration Inventory. Take the time; at least an hour. I promise you it’s worthwhile ROI. Review the prior year coming from an encouraging, applauding, generous energy. Imagine a character that believes in you, helping with this review, generously emphasizing the value or learning gains or positive growth framing of it all. He or she might say “I’m proud of you for…I admire your perseverance about …” and so on.

Here are thought starters for your own Celebration Inventory:

• Open with gratitude. Scan the year and let some things come up for “I am grateful for …” Be aware of the normal externals (I’m grateful for X circumstantial, outer things). Be sure to also dive into your internals (I’m grateful for my resilience… my growing awareness… my ability to…my sense of peace around…). Let me know any questions here. It’s a bit of a practice.

• Review your coaching notes, calendar, journal, meeting notes or anything else that might refresh your memory to mine for some golden awareness.

• Lean into what a generous Champion (loves you, wants the best for you, sees you and what you are capable of more than your conditioned mind or limited beliefs can) would appreciate about YOU. Qualities, et al. 

• When are you at your best, in your “zone”? Who are you being in those moments (or anything else you can notice about this energy state flowing well)?

• What brings you joy?

• What are you proud of?

• What truly nourishes you (to be coming from your greater potential/best self)? Notice cultural norms that are “supposed” to nourish but may not really do this for you. What REALLY nourishes you?

• Think of times when you showed up with a person/ group/ situation and let your imagined Champion celebrate you and the specific qualities it took for you to show up that way.

• Acknowledge sheer effort (Hey look, you attended 623 meetings this year!)

• Acknowledge progress in awareness, learning, new things tried, etc.

• Celebrate growth in who you are becoming.

• Notice insights about what has been most fulfilling and worked out well (to inform how to best invest your energy moving forward). What else is working well in your life?

• Take a bow for the above and really acknowledge what it took (courage, willingness, compassion, etc.).

• Celebrate any other waves of gratitude in various areas of your life.

• Write down highlights. The value is in the process of doing this, not really the final document. You could also record this while on a hike or however you want to capture your awareness.

I do this live with clients, helping to draw out deeper awareness and encourage them to gain the insights for allowing what they really want to emerge from greater potential and creating a smart set up for this new year to be new.  

Here’s a simple menu of areas to scan (that overlap, not really separate) if this helps stir up reflections:

For the Comments section, you might begin to feel into what you DO want to create in the new year. Don’t declare just tactical goals for things you want to have or accomplish. Start with your heart and soul… what matters most to you expressed as a desired feeling state? This gives you more of the true spirit of what you desire. It reveals your higher agenda, that might be achieved through various strategies or tactics than you may plan or not!

 Examples: I would love to…

• Feel consistently energized, with pep in step vitality every day.

• Feel delighted about how my leadership is empowering others.

• Feel at peace and a chosen sense of letting go/ completion about X relationship/ situation.

• Feel resilient and compassionate with myself, welcoming all of my feelings in a way that embodies “I fear not storms for I have learned how to steer my ship” I have learned how to love all of me and know I am sourced from limitless potential deep within no matter what may be happening out there!

• Feel pleased and proud of how I am being with X

• Feel thrilled with my effective, efficient use of X…

Module 2

 Disappointments [to transform into true Desires]

• Scan the year for disappointments. Let them linger in your awareness and be willing to sit and really feel your feelings in that disappointment. 

• Also, notice where or what might be ways you harm yourself, unintended self-sabotage, self-abandoning, et al?

• How might you be playing small? What else wants to be revealed about limitations to being your fully expressed potential?

• Underneath each disappointment, be unconditionally compassionate and curious.

• What is the possible gift/lesson/blessing from deeply experiencing this disappointment? What is the DESIRE wanting to emerge; have your attention?

• Another powerful “audit” is to notice what you complain about. We can explore the fruits to harvest from this more together.

• One way to gain the value from a disappointment (and not linger in possible victim energy, etc.) is to play a game with the sentence stem “This is the BEST thing that ever happened because….” Stretch! You might find yourself laughing and in a new vibrational energy that inspires you to go for what you do really want to create. (I did this recently while on a hike, and it was tremendously helpful in turning an ending of a situation into a catalyst for much greater clarity and commitments in the beginning of a new year, that might not have been as clear if not for this disappointment!) Imagine saying thank you to the disappointment for the Desire and commitment that is now more clearly named and claimed.

Module 3

Habitual Thinking & New Freedom 

We can also probe the ways your habitual thinking and calendar inertia may keep you perpetuating patterns rather than allowing and generating new creative possibilities.

Depending on what’s most relevant for you, we’ll explore where are you still feeling “incomplete”? Incompletions bug us like a bad song in our heads that won’t go away. It causes clogs in our system with stagnant energy and distractions. There could be a tangible conversation or other action to take, or other ways of fostering a peaceful heart and mind to make room for fresh energy to flow. The good news is that there is a breakthrough paradox about letting go of trying to control your thoughts and emotions or get rid of them. We’ll teach you how to cultivate a practice of having “no problem” with things your mental machinery manufactures as problems to solve. This is one more way of empowering you to be in action with response-agility!

1) Spy on yourself; review the year considering habit patterns. Check out Big Rocks vs. sand & gravel. What’s creeps in and ends up being the sand & gravel pre-empting your Best Self and true priorities having your attention and higher potential flourishing? Track your Energizers vs. Drainers with more awareness and honesty.

2) Take an honest look at how your calendar may be running you (exec assistant scheduling, et al) or are you really consciously choosing? Audit this bravely and boldly to help you upgrade how this flows in this new year! What are the strong, sincere Yeses that qualify what belongs on your calendar? What are the new No’s? What would the ideal calendar/scheduling flow upgrade look like? What will it take to make that stick? What’s a first step for now?

3) Scan the year and your heart and mind for what may be feeling incomplete. Just notice without trying to figure anything out right away. What might you be avoiding? Tolerating? Ask your inner wisdom (with non-judging unconditional compassion and wanting the best growth for you) to help you see what your left brain shuts out, puts off, resists, doesn’t want to face fully.

 Module 4

Blank Canvas exercise: Reclaim the Real Success Meant Just for You

Imagine that your picture of success has become a painting over time with many images and textures. You have a lifetime of inherited influences and cultural norms that have accumulated as your definition of success, like layers of paint with stories and strategies that may not really be your unique creation.

We want to strip each layer away in this exercise, to get down to a blank canvas. We're not judging anything or making things "good" or "bad." Just notice with curious exploring while auditing it all, and keep peeling away. Let it be like a fascinating archeological dig, brushing away layers of accumulation.

To claim your authentic success, you must first take inventory of how that story has been framed over time. To allow your waking up inspired life and leadership to unfold, one necessary part of the process is to see what may be holding you back. We get to illuminate unexamined assumptions and accumulated beliefs. There is a template worksheet for this (we’ll work on in coaching/ group masterclass).

Let this challenge and liberate you into your experience of new paradigm living and what’s possible for all of us.

Module 5

Releasing Ritual; It can be simple, and very powerful.

Take quality time to reflect on the thoughts and feelings that may be “clogging up” your energy- keeping you tethered to old plans and stories rather than free to create new inspiring intentions and adventures from a clean, blank canvas and fresh potential. Imagine a cleansing that brings closure. Tune into your inner wisdom for what no longer serves you and you don’t want to carry into the new year. Imagine crossing a bridge or taking a flight and what does not get packed for this new trip!Write down your “stuff to release” (e.g. little scraps of paper for each item) and then safely burn these (e.g. outdoors in a grill or fire pit). As an example, my client Mia wrote down some goals that did not work out the way she had originally envisioned. She also wanted to release pressure about previous expectations, etc. As each little story was burned away, she spoke out loud things like “I am letting go of any attachment to this. I release it completely. I forgive myself and others and wish us all being at our best. I release my need to understand “why.” I release this all with Love that surpasses logic and reason. I am now free of any limiting beliefs from this experience or the stories I made up in my busy brain about this. It is finished… done. ” Lots of breathing felt great too. You get the idea.

We’ll find fun ways for our group to witness and support you in making room for new good to come on into your life

Module 6

 Beware of Identity Theft & Hijack attempts

We’ll have fun exploring these concepts and tools to help you not accidentally play small and let your superpowers out to play more. Group coaching support and shared validation and individual private work are all possible, tailored to what will serve you best.

• Outer What to Inner What spiral (revealing root cause or derailment of what you really want to create)

• Who/what inside of you is trying to run you? Brain science hijacks to deeper inner closet revelations.

• What are you feeding? What’s fueling you?

• Gilligan to Gandhi consciousness (limited, playing small or greatest self)

• Inner Board of Directors: Three primary energies. (Gain game-changing awareness and self-mastery over time.)

• Diving deeper to discover root cause; limiting, false programming to dissolve and allow update, upgrade in your system.

• Renewing, reclaiming your best self, moving beyond limitation in deeply buried identities, stories, strategies…

• Clear the way for visioning to come from clearer, higher energy (not hidden bugs in your inner programming, etc.)

  The 3 Power Questions:

  • What energy am I coming from?

  • Why am I here?

  • What’s my most important job?

 Module 7

Conscious Visioning & Creating

We’ll find your unique, game-changing questions and compelling commitments in coaching together. Tools include:

• Learn the difference between Vision and inspired Visioning.

  Practice beyond conditioned-mind projected vision. Receiving, letting new paradigm emergence, greater possibilities, “higher outer” to come through you, coming from clearer energy.

• If you really cleared away all perceived shoulds, stories, strategies and went for an ideal new possibility that you would absolutely love- play out that fantasy.

• Play with various ways of visioning- extreme ego polarities, then third emergence that is neither = unknown emergent truth wanting to express through you now.

• Imagine emptying out completely, connecting to that dimension of self that doesn’t need to be attached to anything. Let the fears or doubts or desires that come from that sort of grasping, needing X to make me happy sort of energy to be lovingly absorbed in an expanded, non-judging space. Rest in this ocean of unconditional open energy and infinite possibility. Just be open to a fresh start and being moved from a deeper well of inspiration and evolutionary impulse. We can play with meeting your Future Self, Champion support, and other practices to set up great momentum and forward flow! 

• Declare Top Inspiring Intentions.

Flowing off of this “cleaner” energy, ask your deepest heart and infinite potential the following:

• In this new year, I would LOVE to create _________________________________.       

• What really wants to express through me in this new year is _____________.    

• My greatest Joy is _________________.

Now, we get to frame your intentions/commitments (and even that is a distinction- what is a wish or intention and what are you truly committed to?). What is genuinely inspiring and sustainable?

Play with how you declare your intentions. Notice “I am committed to experiencing fun with….. ” rather than “Stop being lazy or shy about XYZ.” This may seem obvious, but you know how your inner critic and other voices sneak in. So, we’ll explore the subtler ways to give that voice a hug, knowing that underneath that fear and doubt is a buried wound that is an invitation for unconditional Love. And underneath that is your true essence power.

Imagine finally uncovering the potency that’s been hiding all these years. I have seen this in myself and clients and I so want you to experience letting the power of unconditional Love-Wisdom-Courage-Inspired Confidence-Possibility move you forward into a glorious new year!

This is not a one-time process. It becomes an inspired life practice.

Module 8

Integration & Implementation

How do we operationalize this? We’ll equip you with power pause practices custom-tailored for you, your lifestyle and most important goals/commitments. There’s also a new “inner-shift technology” F.U.E.L. practice in the Mastery of Leadership Arts tool treasure chest. This new approach/ MLA way of working with people is feeling like the culmination of decades of this transformational growth work with game-changing potential.

• Morning FUEL/ Launchpad

• Smart fuel Pauses, quick reboots during the day (e.g. turn a trigger into treasure!)

• End of day celebration, continuous awareness…

• Other: smart set up, accountability support, and so much more for inner deeper transformational growth, higher outer big picture and daily rubber meets the road. :-)

I am genuinely excited to share these gifts with you and find the just-right ways to help you effectively flourish, enjoy the ride and be the change you really want to pay forward.

It might help to hear a few client experiences in this journey:

1)  Working with Marian has simply transformed my life. She has helped me unearth my mission of creating positive social impact. She knows how to bring out the greatness in me. She has superhuman EQ and is intrinsically motivated to inspire her clients. She has a delightful way of gaining understanding of what makes me tick, what my inner most intentions are and what obstacles may be impeding my progress. She "gets" me.  She sometimes knows me better than I know myself. She nudges and supports me, more importantly, she knows how to effectively challenge me. Why do I especially love coaching calls this time of year with Marian that are focused on planning for the future? I am predominantly a left-brained, linear thinker.  Marian has the unique ability to tap my right brain, creative side. This dramatically transforms the nature of my energy and thinking around planning and creating an inspiring vision of the future. For example, in a recent call with Marian, I progressed from contemplating another boring business plan template to an energizing outline to "Fuel My Inner Warrior Mission for this year"...and began the exciting process to articulate my "emerging Vision."  Marian rocked my world!   -Bob A.

2)  Every day I get to experience the sweet satisfaction of doing work that I love, and it makes me smile.

At a certain point, I was able to see the truth (lie) of my situation because my life was so off kilter. And with that tah-dah came the realization that I might need help.

I am now better prepared for challenges and ability to create more joyful flow with work, colleagues, family and friends.

Marian’s ability to drop the clutter and fortify the foundations of your innermost wishes and desires is brilliant. She has experience, knowledge, all the coolest tools, and a boatload of heartfelt compassion for those of us in the trenches. You couldn’t ask for a better partner through the thick and the thin.

I get a safe place to bounce ideas around. Imagine being able to say your wildest thoughts and dreams and not worry about being judged!

There is now someone in my life who is working for me. In our MLA (Mastery of Leadership Arts) sessions, she listens, and listens, and challenges, and pokes, and prods, and then whoosh I’m off to the drawing board as a flood of ideas take shape.

Who would have thought I’d have such a consistent partner, champion, guide and expert working with me to bring the best possible solutions and opportunities, and encouraging me to step up on the stage and take that chance?

Each little success has me feeling good, balanced and whole about my work; that it really is “Life”.

I know that Marian loves what she does, it comes through in every call we have. After much work, I too love what I do in my livelihood & leadership, and it’s great to experience the possibilities that are an outpouring of the creative energy we generate together on a call. It’s magic.

I’m keep renewing each year to keep those possibilities and opportunities growing.  - S.S.

3)  This experience was such a powerful vision quest. Marian has a unique way of partnering with her clients. She was right there with me, guiding me along and waiting for the time to ask pertinent questions that moved me forward. And, then there was follow up and homework to keep me on my path. I even had the amazing surprise of her singing me thru a part of the process; that was a special treat, one in which words escape me. But the sound of her voice held me and surrounded me, allowing me to find more of myself coming through. Isn't that something we all need more of?  – Elaine U.