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\nAre you living just to survive … or to fulfill your soul\u2019s purpose?
\nWhat\u2019s the cost of not living your soul\u2019s purpose?
\nHow can you even know if you\u2019re living your soul\u2019s path?
\nHow do you navigate the need to pay the bills (or show up for your loved ones) \u2026 AND the drive to live your soul\u2019s calling today?
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\nI was so excited for this conversation with Jeff Brown.
\nMy lady has been a long time fan of his work \u2013 she often shares his wisdom on her Instagram page. I didn\u2019t realize it until I started doing more research on Jeff, but I actually saw a documentary he produced called Karmageddon, years ago \u2026 a deeply insightful documentary about his fascinating (and disturbing) experience hosting in his home an essentially narcissistic boundary-violating musical guru who had a particular affinity for teenage women. This was well before the #METOO movement, and I wonder how that so-called guru-teacher is being received these days.
\nAnyway, what I so love about Jeff\u2019s work and his writing, which I first witnessed in him in his documentary, is he brings firmly grounded perspective to the often lofty and disembodied heights of modern spirituality \u2026 where so many modern spiritual-teachers even coaches are using spiritual ideas and concepts, such as non-identification with form, and detachment from suffering, as grounds for actually abusing people and causing people to dishonor their own critical human boundaries, Jeff seizes on that insanity to bring spirituality back to earth, into the body, so that spiritual practice serves to deepen, and enrich, our human experience, not merely bypass it.
\nJeff is the author of 6 books, including his most recent release, \u201cGrounded Spirituality\u201d \u2026 the book I decided to read to really prepare for this conversation was \u201cSoulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation\u201d … which is an autobiographical account of his journey to awakening to his soul\u2019s calling \u2026 and of course all the forces arrayed against him \u2013 both the inner forces like self-doubt and survival thinking \u2013 and also the outer forces our world makes real, like the very real need to make money and the persistent reality that one\u2019s soul calling is often at odds with the modern world\u2019s monetary system. In other words, despite all the Hallmark spirituality out there and the countless social media influencers who caption their luxury resort photos with trite assurances that if you just leap, you\u2019ll grow wings \u2026 the truth is that even in today\u2019s world of seemingly endless possibilities, following your soul\u2019s calling often WON\u2019T be financially rewarding \u2026 at least not for a very uncomfortable amount of time!
\nAnd I LOVE that Jeff leans straight into such widely perpetuated inspirational cliches that sing in sometimes painful dissonance with everyday reality.
\nJeff\u2019s book quickly became one of my all-time favorites \u2013 even just today I gave it to a client going through a massive life transition.
\nAnd Jeff the man is now one of my favorite men. Although we\u2019ve just met, based on what I\u2019ve witnessed through his work, and now through our conversation that you\u2019re about to hear, I already know I deeply trust this man, in his integrity to just be real with me.
\nDefinitely stay tuned for Jeff\u2019s 5 Key Takeaway’s at the end of this episode of Men, This Way \u2026
\nAlright \u2026
\nLet\u2019s dive \u2026
\nSHOW NOTES
\n6:16 ~ Jeff\u2019s latest book \u201cGrounded Spirituality\u201d
\n10:10 ~ False path and true path