Music Was My First Meditation

As a young person I could spend hours composing, completely absorbed in a world beyond words. Music was my first meditation, a place where I learned to listen for what wanted to emerge, then give it voice.

I started composing music when I was 14, and one dream stayed with me through the years: to hear my music performed by a live orchestra. I had no idea how it would happen. I simply kept writing, stayed open to unexpected opportunities, and trusted the path to unfold.

Gradually, through conversation, synchronicity, and the courage to keep saying yes, that dream became a reality. It led to recording with orchestras in England and Vienna, and eventually to standing on the podium conducting my own work.

That experience continues to remind me that some of life's most meaningful chapters unfold through listening as much as planning.

Building Something That Mattered

In 2009, I founded MemberMouse, a software company that grew into a multi-million-dollar business over the next fourteen years.

Those years taught me an enormous amount about leadership, creativity, and building something that genuinely served people.

Eventually I realized that what most energized me wasn't building the business itself, but the conversations, the relationships, and the moments when someone walked away seeing themselves or their situation differently.

Looking back, I can see those conversations were preparing me for the work I do today.

Selling the company in 2023 gave me the opportunity to fully step into that work.

The Inner Journey

The years surrounding that transition were shaped by an equally important inner journey.

Since meeting my Guru, Sri Anandi Ma, in 2015, I've devoted thousands of hours to meditation, mantra practice, and contemplative study, including extended silent retreats in India.

Along the way I’ve explored many different approaches to healing, relationship, and spiritual practice, including somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems, nonviolent communication, plant medicine, and A Course in Miracles.

Each offered a different perspective, yet all pointed toward the same realization: life becomes a very different experience when we learn to trust something deeper than our habitual way of seeing the world.

One Practice, Many Expressions

Today I no longer see these as separate pursuits. They're simply different ways of practicing the same thing: listening.

Coaching, composing, hosting tea ceremonies, and sharing conversations all arise from the same intention. They create spaces where people feel deeply seen and reconnect with themselves.

Across all of these experiences, one lesson keeps revealing itself: meaningful change rarely begins with someone giving us better answers. More often, it begins when we feel deeply listened to, and in that space, we begin to hear ourselves more clearly.

Whatever the form, I'm continually humbled by what becomes possible when we get out of our own way.

I hope something in my work encourages you to trust yourself a little more deeply.

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