I have often heard coaches and healers who are struggling with getting paid for doing the work they love say: It is never about the money (as if to rationalize the despair of unrequited reciprocity). While that statement is actually true at higher orders of thinking, even in the most practical of considerations, we could also own the truth of this: It is always about the money. We are spiritual beings expressing into a physical reality through tissue. As such, we can create anything we put our minds to, yet the conversations about money that we could be having are both avoided and denied, so deep is the abyss of our fear of feeling ostracized because we have it… or because we don’t.

It had been a very hot and humid day right up until about 6 PM, then the rain started to fall heavily in sheets. I ran to the car from my Aunt’s apartment on Charlotte Street in Ottawa so my father could drive me to St. James Anglican Church in Hull, Quebec for a 7 PM ceremony.  I was about to get married.

Only 3 days before, I had been running the underground tunnels of the Ottawa Civic Hospital looking for my friend who was working the evening shift; I was in a bit of a panic. All of a sudden, I had wondered just what I was getting myself into. I did not find my friend at work; she had already finished her shift, so I headed over to her apartment. She heard me out, assuaged my ‘fears’ (was I doing the right thing?)  and calmed me down. Now, Saturday had arrived.

Back in the early 1990’s I read a book by Dan Millman, The Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior. It related his spiritual learnings through the teachings of a female Kahuna in Hawaii. I loved the book; it was deep and it was magical. Little did I know that, 5 years later, I would find myself on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1997 for my first entry into learning the ancient Hawaiian philosophy of Huna. I started out as a novice student and 5 years later was invited to become one of the teachers for the school - the halau - I was studying at. I met people from all over the world who were intuitively called to Hawaii to discover more about themselves. Over the years, I made 22 trips to Hawaii. I believe now that those trips were preparing me - unknowingly - to navigate the times we are now living in, so that I can share what is possible with others who are looking to make sense of their worlds.