The Green Door Life

Hi friends,

Wow. What a week.

If I had to describe this past week in one word, it would be pulverizing.

It's been a week of immense shedding, incredible opportunities for creation, and some of the most inspiring conversations I've had in a long time.

I feel like I've lived about three months in seven days, and somehow I'm coming out the other side feeling both completely wrung out and wildly inspired.

Funny how those two things can coexist.

Today's Lineup:

•  Ten podcast episodes, eight guests, and a whole lot of curiosity

•  The unexpected beauty of creating something together

•  What happens when our values become our North Star

•  Four little habits that can change how we experience our days

Ten Episodes. Eight Guests. One Very Full Heart.

Earlier this week, Gregory and I filmed TEN episodes of our new podcast, The Matter and the Woo, with eight absolutely incredible guest speakers.

And oh my gosh, you guys. I am SO excited for you to meet these humans.

W...

Hi friends,

Well, this newsletter is officially late. 😂

Rafa and I have become a bit like traveling gypsies lately. I swear we're in a different state every time I sit down to write one of these newsletters.

We're currently in Northern California, and somewhere between traveling, reconnecting with people, and diving into some fascinating personal development work, my self-imposed newsletter deadline came and went.

But I've been thinking... what really is a timeline anyway?

In this case, it's an expectation I created in my own head. Nobody is sitting around waiting for me to hit send at exactly the right moment. At least I don't think so.😂

It's interesting how easily we create rules for ourselves and then feel the pressure of living up to them.

Which, as it turns out, is a pretty perfect introduction to what I've been exploring this week.

Today's Lineup:

•  💪Awaken Your Strength is here, with a little gift

•  🌳Seeing my hometown through someone else's eyes

•  🧅The unc...

Hi friends,

We are back in Tennessee, and this week I had something I haven’t had in what feels like years:

The house completely to myself.

No visitors. No travel. No one else’s schedule to navigate.

Just me.

And apparently, when left entirely to my own devices, I become an extraordinarily efficient little human.

Today’s Lineup

What I discovered when no one else was home
The book currently rearranging my brain
Watching something I built grow beyond me
Two things I created... and somehow forgot existed

Apparently, I do everything at once.

A few days alone gave me the chance to notice how I naturally move through my day.

And wow, do I like efficiency.

If I’m walking from one room to another, I’m carrying three things that need to go there.

I’m listening to an audio while brushing my teeth.

Sometimes I am watching a show and reading a book at the same time, which feels slightly unhinged now that I’m admitting it publicly.

But underneath all that efficiency, I noticed somet...

Hi friends, 

We're back from California, and apparently a few days in L.A. and Palm Springs was enough to send me down approximately seventeen new existential rabbit holes.

We tried a modality I'd never experienced before. I found myself unexpectedly thinking about my grandmother in the desert. Rafa and I attended a wedding completely sober. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, a stranger asked me a question that made me hear myself differently.

So...just your average weekend away.

Today's Lineup:

• Every certification seems to open five more doors 

• Palm Springs made me think about what we inherit 

• Apparently, sobriety made me realize how sensitive I am 

Every Door I Walk Through Opens Five More

Before heading to Palm Springs, Rafa and I went to a group Spinal Energetics session in Long Beach.

If you're wondering what that is, you're in good company. Until recently, I didn't know much about it either.

It was actually a modality I had been considering stu...

Hi friends, 

Last week I told you I was heading to a longevity conference here in Nashville and promised to report back on what fascinated me, what made me skeptical, and what I inevitably wanted to try.

Full disclosure: because of the timing of these emails, you actually received that newsletter a couple of days after we attended the conference.

Apparently The Elevated Frequency Weekly is already bending space and time.

But I digress.

I went. I nerded out. I tried some things. And yes, I found a $170,000 wellness bed, or as the Ammortal company calls it, a chamber....

Today's Lineup:

• I tried a $170,000 bed and unfortunately loved it

• The longevity industry reminded me to do something very unsexy

• I’m headed to a 104-degree black-tie wedding…sober

I Tried a $170,000 Bed and Unfortunately Loved It

The longevity conference was fascinating.

I walked through rows of vendors offering all kinds of testing and technology. DUTCH testing. Microbiome testing. Brain Ma...

Hi Green Door Life Friends,

Something feels different around here lately. My body, my routines, the conversations Rafa and I are having, the work I’m doing with clients, the things I’m interested in, even this newsletter. 

It feels like we’re in a season of revisiting a lot of things and asking, Does this still fit? Is this still how I want to do this?

So it seems appropriate that we’re changing things up a little here too.

Today's Lineup:

• I’m changing how I write these emails

• A beach video gave me the kick in the ass I needed

• Rafa and I might be entering our reinvention era

• Plus, I’m spending Saturday nerding out about longevity

These Newsletters Are Getting a Little Revamp

I've been thinking about this for a while. Writing these newsletters had started to feel a little... tedious.

Not because I didn't have enough to say. Quite the opposite.

I have so much I want to share that every time I sat down to write, I felt like I needed to give you everything ...

Hi GDL Fam!

As the rise of AI gets more and more pronounced, I am finding that the gap gets both wider and smaller to the incredible architecture of our human intelligence and design.

The more the machines learn, the more I find myself turning toward the intelligence I was born into.

The body.

A system that senses, adapts, protects, remembers, and repairs, all while responding to an environment that is changing every second.

I have been in health and fitness since I was 18 years old. But the conditions for the way I view the body started much earlier than that.

Let me take you back.

It Started in the Kitchen

I was raised Christian Scientist.

This isn't Scientology. It's a type of Christianity founded by Mary Baker Eddy, and one of its foundations was that we could heal the body with the mind.

So I was born at home. And I was raised with something else, too: the foundation of intuitive eating, and using the body as a pendulum to test what foods, supplements, and environment...

Inside of our community, water has become a big conversation.

And as a result, I have officially become a water person.

Apparently this is what happens when you spend enough years studying nutrition, metabolism, hormones and the human body. You start wondering things like:

Is filtered water better? Should I be drinking spring water? What about reverse osmosis? Do I need electrolytes? Is my tap water actually fine?

And why does choosing WATER suddenly require a graduate degree?

Spring. Filtered. Reverse osmosis. Whole-house. Mineral. Tap. Hydrogen. Electrolytes. Mineral drops. Everyone has an opinion.

But I think we're asking the wrong question when we ask, What is the "best" water?

Because hydration, like almost everything else in the body, is contextual.

Your Body Isn't a Water Bottle

We tend to think: water goes in → hydration achieved

Except your body isn't a container we're trying to fill. It's constantly regulating fluid through your kidneys, hormones, thirst, food,...

Hi Green Door Fam!

We have all been there… Your friend lost 12 pounds.

She (or he) looks amazing. She feels amazing.

So obviously, you ask:

“Okay...what did you do?”

And she tells you everything. What she ate, her calories, macros, workouts, supplements, morning routine.

Maybe even the exact almond milk she puts in her coffee because at this point we are taking NO chances. 

So you do it too.

You buy the groceries. Download the app. Follow the workouts.

You are COMMITTED.

Three weeks later?

She's still thriving.

You're hungry, tired, thinking about food constantly...and the scale has barely moved.

So now you aren't questioning the plan.

You're questioning yourself.

Why isn't this working for me?

What am I doing wrong?

Do I need to try harder?

Maybe not.

Maybe you successfully copied her plan.

You just couldn't copy her physiology.

This Is Where Nutrition Gets Personal

We love formulas.

Tell me exactly what to eat. Tell me how much. Tell me which workout. Tell m...

Hi Green Door Fam!

Let’s talk sleep, shall we?!

It’s 7:04 AM.

Your alarm goes off.

You check the numbers.

8 hours, 7 minutes.

Look at you. A responsible adult who actually slept.

Except there’s one problem.

You feel exhausted.

Your eyes are heavy. Your brain hasn't quite joined the meeting. Coffee feels less like a beverage and more like emergency medical equipment.

And you're confused because...

Didn't I sleep enough?

Maybe.

But eight hours tells us how long you slept.

It doesn't tell us the whole story of your sleep.

Your Body Has a Clock

Deep inside your brain is a small region called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN.

No need to remember that. There is no quiz.

What matters is that it functions as your central circadian clock, helping coordinate roughly 24-hour rhythms involved in:

→ Sleep and wakefulness
→ Alertness
→ Body temperature
→ Hormone secretion
→ Digestion and metabolism

And one of the most powerful signals helping synchronize that clock is remarkably...