Several of you asked how my time at Wanderlust’s new conference, Wellspring, was.

Short story: It was a flipping DELIGHT.

Yes, it was a work trip, but I came back legitimately BUZZING with all the ideas I had, BRILLIANT people I met and old friendships I rekindled… not to mention the list of partnership projects that are now in the works.

I spend most of my time in Silicon Valley, with lovely people building great, big things.

But it’s rare that I get to be surrounded with people who have made wellbeing their life’s work.

So that was a rush.

Here are a few photos I thought you’d get a kick out of. Scroll down to the end for a lesson on forgiveness from one of my new friends.

TRIP LOG:

I took a (geographically significant) detour on my way from Oakland to Palm Springs, to give a talk at the Cusp Conference in Chicago.

Then, when I got to Palm Springs, I took the first day and just rested.

De-chaosed my nervous system, as it were.

That day, I apparently had a very animated conversation with Dave Asprey, the Bulletproof Executive himself:

Then, I got a little hang time with Sheri “Boss Lady Status” Salata, the former President of Oprah’s OWN network.

Sheri is now running her own show: the This Is Fifty podcast.

During a pit stop, I witnessed some, um, situationally appropriate marketing by Poo-Pourri inside each bathroom stall:

On Day 2, I gave my first talk, to a full room, on How to Bring Your Whole Team into the Flow State.

Then on Day 3, I teamed up with my brilliant homegirl Laura Davis Gross, CMO of Wanderlust, for a joint talk on Marketing to the Transformational Consumer.

Just before leaving, I made one last, new friend — someone I’ve admired from afar: Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber.

I said: “Hi, Sarcastic Lutheran. I’m the Buddhist Black church lady of Silicon Valley.”

She cracked up.

Brilliance ensued.

And that brings us to our LESSON:

As we head into the holidays, you may be hanging with family members you don’t often see. People with whom you have history, for better or for worse.

You may also be starting to recollect the vision and dreams you had for 2018. Or you might just be wondering where the year went. Or maybe you’re starting to metabolize this year, and set vision for next year.

One theme will serve you very very well in the weeks to come, during the holidays and the transition into 2019: Forgiveness.

Any time you want to level up, forgiving yourself and everyone around you unlocks reservoirs of energy and opens up your inner pipeline of love, inspiration and creative power.

In my School of Upliftment, we even practice an old school Louise Hay Daily Declaration on the subject.

It goes like this:

“I forgive everyone around me and release them with love. They are free and I am free.”

Forgiveness is how you move forward in life. But sometimes, it seems like forgiving people who’ve done terrible things or made terrible mistakes would let them off the hook, or deny your truth. Forgiveness can seem way too nice at a time when the world needs fierce, not nice.

Here’s a 2-minute video where my new homegirl Nadia explains why we should forgive assholes.

She says forgiveness has zero to do with nice but, rather, is a weapon of the fierce: the freedom fighters.

May all beings — ALL beings — be happy and free.

Head up + heart out,

TNN

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