“I REMEMBER THE EXACT DAY NOWLEVELUP CHANNELED THROUGH ME.”

I HAD JUST MOVED 3000 MILES AWAY FROM THE ADDICTION, ABUSE, UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, AND TOXIC MEMORIES THAT MARKED MY FAMILY DYNAMIC.

I WAS ALSO IN A DEEP PROCESS OF RECOVERING FROM A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE.

I WAS ALONE IN MY APARTMENT WHEN THE PHONE RANG. IT WAS MY MOTHER YELLING AT ME - AGAIN. MY MIND BEGAN TO FOG, I FELT PAIN ALL OVER MY BODY - I WAS GETTING PULLED INTO A BLACK HOLE. I COULD FEEL MY SOUL TRYING TO DISSOCIATE FROM MY BODY IN THAT PRESENT MOMENT.

I HUNG UP, THREW THE PHONE ON THE BED, RAN OVER TO MY CLOSET AND PULLED OUT SOME PAINT AND AN OLD SHIRT, AND WROTE: ‘THE WAR IS OVER’ 

A MESSAGE CAME THROUGH ME: HANG UP NOW.

I HAD NO IDEA WHY I WAS WRITING THIS.

I JUST HAD A KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WORKING THROUGH ME - I COULD FEEL IT.

I PUT THE SHIRT ON - I DIDN’T EVEN WAIT FOR IT TO DRY.

I GRABBED A MARKER AND WROTE ON THE MIRROR IN MY ROOM: 

I STOOD IN FRONT OF THAT MIRROR, HYSTERICALLY CRYING, BEGGING MYSELF TO LOVE MYSELF DEEPER.

ONCE I WAS ALL CRIED OUT, I GOT ANOTHER MESSAGE: “GO TO WHOLE FOODS”.

UM… OKAY?

THERE WAS AN OLD PART OF ME THAT WANTED TO STAY IN THIS ‘COMFORT VICTIM ZONE’- CRYING AND FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF.

GOD WHISPERED: “NOW IS THE MOMENT YOU SHIFT. LISTEN TO ME.”

SO I DID. I WENT TO WHOLE FOODS WEARING THIS SHIRT.
AND, I WAS A MAGNET.

EVERY PERSON THAT I WALKED BY WAS THROWING UP A PEACE SIGN AND SAYING THEY LOVED MY SHIRT.

THE FREQUENCY AND VIBE AROUND ME STARTED TO SHIFT.

I WAS WALKING TO MY CAR WHEN THIS MAN WALKED BY AND SNARLED, “YEAH THE WAS IS OVER, BS!”

BEFORE HE WAS EVEN DONE WITH HIS SENTENCE I GRABBED HIS HAND AND PUT IT ON MY HEART AS I PUT MY HAND ON HIS HEART.

HE WAS SO TAKEN BACK. I LOOKED INTO HIS EYES AND SAID,

“BROTHER, I PROMISE YOU IT IS, WE JUST HAVE TO CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE IT AND BELIEVE IT.”

IT WAS GOD SPEAKING THROUGH ME.

HIS EYES FILLED WITH TEARS AND HE JUST FELL INTO ME AND SAID HE WAS SO SORRY.

HE TOLD ME HE WAS HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME.

WE SAT FOR HOURS AND SHARED WHAT WE EACH HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH.

WE REALLY SHOWED UP FOR EACH OTHER - WE WERE A SOFT LANDING FOR EACH OTHER.

TWO STRANGERS - TWO PERFECT MIRRORS COLLIDING.

WHEN WE GOT UP, IT FELT LIKE WE WERE IN A NEW WORLD - FULL OF MAGIC AND EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT WAS NEXT FOR EACH OF US.

WE KNEW WE CREATED ONE ANOTHER IN THAT NOW MOMENT TO GET US THROUGH TO THE
NEXT LEVEL OF OUR LIVES.

AS I DROVE AWAY I SAID OUT LOUD TO MYSELF:

“THIS IS SOMETHING... I DON’T KNOW WHAT YET... BUT THIS IS IT. I KNOW IT, GOD.”

NOWLEVELUP STARTED AS A SUCCESSFUL CLOTHING COMPANY, BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THE SHIRT THAT DID IT.

I REALIZED, IT WASN’T
THE SHIRT.

IT WAS THE MESSAGE.

IT WAS THE POWER OF CHOOSING TO BRING LOVE AND PURE INTENTION INTO THE NOW MOMENT.

IT WAS ABOUT
EMBODYING THE CHANGE
THIS WORLD NEEDS.

IT WAS ABOUT THE RADICAL ABILITY TO STAY OPEN, MEET EACH OTHER IN OUR RAWNESS AND AUTHENTICALLY BRING ONE ANOTHER INTO THE MAGIC OF ONENESS.

IT WAS ABOUT REMEMBERING WE ARE INDEED ABLE TO SHOW UP FOR ONE ANOTHER AS PERFECT MIRRORS.

I REALIZED IT WAS ABOUT REMINDING ONE ANOTHER THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS GAME.

I REALIZED THROUGH THE BIRTH OF NOWLEVELUP THAT THE MESSAGE IS WHAT I HAVE COME TO SHARE AND TEACH.

THAT IS WHY I BELIEVE
WE ARE HERE, TOGETHER.
YOU AND ME.
IN THIS NOW MOMENT.

THIS IS THE MAGIC I SPEAK OF.

YOU HAVE NOT LANDED HERE
BY CHANCE.

NOTHING IS ‘BY CHANCE.’

YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE
YOU ARE MEANT TO BE HERE.