Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
I noticed that I had a knack for creating memorable customer experiences, building community, and marketing my brand in a way that was authentic.
I started to get questions about how I was growing my business and digital community so quickly, so I put my teaching hat back on and launched my first online marketing course to share the little-known techniques that were bringing me success. Things escalated quickly and I decided to focus entirely on teaching and selling online courses.
Within a year, it was earning 6-figures, which, as an early 20-something (and former classroom teacher), felt unexpected and exhilarating.
Over 10 years ago I started my first business from my studio apartment in Tokyo – a boutique web design company.
To my surprise, within its first year, my online education company earned $1.3 million dollars and supported thousands of students in growing their own companies.
By external measures of success, I was flying high, but inside something felt off.
I learned the ins and outs of growing a successful digital business – from every facet of online marketing and creating streamlined systems to hiring an incredible team and crafting irresistible offers.
At the end of 2021, I made the bravest, and possibly most unconventional choice of my life: I shut down a thriving, 7-figure company.
It took two bouts of severe burnout, a breakup, and the death of my dog to get me to acknowledge that something needed to change. I loved my company, our team, and the impact we were making in the world, but deep down, I craved something more simple. I wanted to touch people’s lives on a smaller scale and focus more on alignment than achievement.
To do what? Well, I wasn’t sure yet! But I trusted that if I surrendered to the flow, followed my creative impulses, and truly listened to the current of life that had been whispering to me all this time, I would figure it out eventually.
After moving to Portugal, I decided to renovate and open a bookshop and wellness cafe called Fable, where we also host tons of in-person events to create belonging for creative, curious humans.
6 months later, those whispers led me to Portugal. I was meant to stay for a month and, well, over two years later, I never left.
I’ve used my background in online marketing and leading teams to host sold-out events and turn a profit in a notoriously challenging industry (a bookstore and restaurant in another country, for the love!).
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But this story isn’t just about business – and neither is yours.
What I’ve learned from following the path of surrender and alignment is that you can truly create anything in life if you know how to adjust your aperture to possibility instead of problems.
Who we become when we lean into our brave, unconventional choices is even more meaningful than what we create.
That’s why I created Future Current.
I’ve learned that a truly powerful person is one who knows how to let go of society’s expectations for how your life should look, and instead adopt your own beliefs for how it gets to feel.
I’ve learned that literal magic ensues when you decide to see things with curiosity and trust, and follow the flow of life instead of resisting it.
I know that my experience is not unique – at some point nearly everyone will be faced with crossroads and turning points in their life. But what I’ve noticed (and experienced firsthand) is that when those moments arise, where you can choose to follow the path of what’s true or what’s comfortable, it can sometimes take years if not a lifetime to make a courageous change.
“It can be terrifying for humans when a way of life dies. Even if that way of life is a way of death. And yet, we have no choice. We must outgrow our fear of a new world.”
Jaiya John
It makes sense, doesn’t it?
Transformation, at first, requires destruction, and doing that alone is not always easy or feasible, especially when it means giving up an identity or way of being.
But when we continue walking down an expired path, it often leads us to burnout, resentment, and losing our vibrancy for life. So many people do it, not knowing that there’s another way.
Let’s become present to where it wants to take you.
Using a variety of scientifically-backed coaching tools, business tactics, and eastern philosophy, we’ll help you let go of self-imposed limitations, reconnect to your inner knowing, and experience profound transformation. The current of your life is already flowing.
At Future Current, we focus on you as a whole being operating within the ecosystem of your life and the world around you.
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