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Leadership Learning When to Follow and When to Lead

Leadership Learning When to Follow and When to Lead

June 16, 2026 9:42am

Learning When to Follow and When to Lead: Becoming the Words We Speak For most of my life, I found myself leading. Not because I sought authority. Not because I wanted power. It simply seemed to happen. As a child, I wasn’t afraid to speak up. I challenged bullies. I questioned authority. I resisted the status quo. I can still remember my granny encouraging me to join a debate team even though our school didn’t have one. She saw something in me that I would not fully understand until much later: a willingness to explore perspectives and help others see…

The Beauty of Rebellion: How Awareness Leads to Freedom and Authentic Living

The Beauty of Rebellion: How Awareness Leads to Freedom and Authentic Living

May 31, 2026 10:04am

The Beauty of Rebellion: Standing in the Freedom of Your Own Being By Chris “Yellow Owl” Albaugh There comes a moment in many of our lives when we begin questioning what we have accepted as truth. Not because life has failed us. Not because others have intentionally misled us. But because awareness begins revealing that much of what we think, feel, and believe may have been inherited rather than discovered. We inherit stories. We inherit beliefs. We inherit fears. We inherit traditions, loyalties, expectations, identities, and wounds. Some of these help us survive. Some help us belong. Some help us…

Participation Is the Path of Unity | Conscious Awareness, Growth & Embodiment

Participation Is the Path of Unity | Conscious Awareness, Growth & Embodiment

May 30, 2026 10:34am

Participation Is the Path of Unity When we are given or give directions without the awareness of where we’re going, be mindful. Many people give advice from where they’ve been, what they’ve survived, what hurt them, what fulfilled or frightened them, and what they believe life is supposed to be. Many share from experience. Many share from self-interest. Many share from a need to be right, to feel safe, belong, accepted, validated, protected, or in control. This does not make us wrong or right. It makes us human in the next step of our personal and collective evolution. What I’ve…

Remaining Soft Without Washing Away | A GAUGE Your Life Reflection on Giving, Discernment, and Conscious Co-Creation

Remaining Soft Without Washing Away | A GAUGE Your Life Reflection on Giving, Discernment, and Conscious Co-Creation

May 18, 2026 8:28am

Remaining Soft Without Washing Away How disappointment, discernment, and conscious co-creation reveal our true capacity to love and grow. There are moments in life when we look back and wonder if we cared more than another person did. We may feel that we gave more, sacrificed more, or held the vision of what could be with greater devotion. In relationships, families, communities, and shared endeavors, this realization can stir a deep ache within us. And yet, in truth, we can never give more than we are or more than we have in any given moment. Every offering we make our…

Competition to Collaboration: Creating a Safe Place for Humans to Heal and Grow

Competition to Collaboration: Creating a Safe Place for Humans to Heal and Grow

May 11, 2026 6:30am

When Competition Becomes Collaboration My entire life, I was naturally good at competing. Whether in business, athletics, problem-solving, or navigating life itself, I understood how to strive, adapt, and persevere. Competition taught me discipline. It taught me how to focus, how to endure, and how to keep moving even when circumstances seemed impossible. And yet, deep within me, I never believed competition was the highest expression of human potential. Winning never felt as meaningful as connection. Achievement never felt as fulfilling as helping others rise. Success, in its truest form, seemed less about standing above others and more about standing…

We Came Here to Have a Human Experience: Stewardship, Compassion, and Nurturing Each Other

We Came Here to Have a Human Experience: Stewardship, Compassion, and Nurturing Each Other

February 14, 2026 7:14am

We Came Here to Have a Human Experience We came here to have a human experience and to relate through stewardship, compassion, and nurturing each other. To feel full and to feel hungry. To feel thirsty and the satisfaction of quenching it. To live the contrast without making it a curse. To let the formless meet the formed not as a battle, but as a practice. Not as a performance, but as a way of being. The River Teaches Us How to Trust The darker depths only consume us if we don’t trust the in the river. The free fall…

Legally Right vs. Being Right

Legally Right vs. Being Right

February 3, 2026 7:53am

Legally Right vs. Being Right When the Art of Life Is Co-Created Through Shared Visions and Agreements There are moments in life when our belief in systemsequality, fairness, justice, unity. Quietly fails us. Not because the systems don’t work as designed, but because they were never built to hold the full complexity of being human. It’s funny, in a way, being birthed into this life as a Libra. An archetype associated with balance and justice only to learn that harmony isn’t something you think your way into. It’s something you experience by living both sides of duality. Both polarities of…

The Certainty of Uncertainty: In-Formation, Identity, and Remembering We Are One

The Certainty of Uncertainty: In-Formation, Identity, and Remembering We Are One

January 31, 2026 6:22am

The Certainty of Uncertainty: In-Formation, Identity, and Remembering We Are One There is a quiet certainty inside uncertainty. One we often resist until experience teaches us what information alone never could. We live in a world saturated with ideas: what is right, who is right, which side to stand on, what success looks like, who we should be, and how healing is supposed to appear. Much of this comes through education, mass media, culture, and well-intended teachings passed down without embodiment. So we try them on. Not because we are foolish. Not because we are broken. But because this is…

Consciousness, Time, and the Art of Returning | Subconscious, Presence & Free Will

Consciousness, Time, and the Art of Returning | Subconscious, Presence & Free Will

January 29, 2026 7:10am

Consciousness, Time, and the Art of Returning How the Subconscious Runs Faster Than Awareness and the Superconscious Brings Us Home There was a long time in my life when I believed I was present and yet my body kept proving otherwise. I could sit in a room, look someone in the eyes, speak calmly, even offer guidance… and still feel a tightening in my chest, a readiness to defend, a subtle urgency to control outcomes. Nothing was happening in the moment. And yet everything was happening inside me. That contradiction became one of my greatest teachers. It led me to…

From Power to Presence: Acceptance, Mis-Guidance, and Life Beyond Identity

From Power to Presence: Acceptance, Mis-Guidance, and Life Beyond Identity

January 28, 2026 9:44am

From Power to Presence: Acceptance, Mis-Guidance, and Life Beyond Identity As a teenager, I studied magic, the occult, secret societies, and personal leadership not out of curiosity alone, but out of survival. I was trying to understand power. My power. What made me feel so different, so intense, so out of place in the world I was born into. Those years were rough. Cutting, fighting, running from the police those weren’t phases, they were patterns. I didn’t feel safe in my home, in my body, or in my future. By my late teens, I dropped out of high school and…

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