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My mother tells a story about me from preschool. The class had practiced a spring play for weeks. When the big day came, all the parents were waiting outside and the kids froze. No one wanted to go on stage. Everyone stood there, scared, silent.
Except me.
I walked out and did the entire play alone. I have no memory of it, but it tracks. I can just imagine what I was thinking, even at 4 years old. “People, we’ve practiced this. What are you nervous about? Let’s go!”
I’ve been “going first” ever since.
Why I Always Go First
Most people build their lives one careful step at a time. They move forward only when the path is clear. I live backwards. I start from the ending I can already feel, the billion-dollar company, the cultural shift, the future conversation and then I trace my way back to now. I leave proof so that one day, when someone asks how, I can point and say, see, it was all right here. It’s not control; it’s faith. It’s trusting what I’ve always known, that the future is already written, and my job is to walk it out loud.
Why I Publish the Messy Parts, Including the Embarrassments
Because the day will come when people say, “She was an overnight success.” And I’ll smile and point to this era; the late nights, the small sales, the building years. That’s why I wrote The Physics of Manifestation now, when it earned me fifty-seven cents. I’m not writing for applause. I’m leaving field notes for whoever comes next. If my own embarrassment or failure becomes someone else’s permission slip, then it’s worth it.
The Freedom of Going First
What I’ve learned since that preschool play is this: when you go first, people exhale. They don’t have to be the brave one. You already cracked the silence open for them. And in that crack, everyone gets a little freer. That’s what I want more than anything, for everyone to get to feel the freedom I’ve felt. To realize they are the architects of their own timelines. To see that the gap between “someday” and “today” closes the moment you act as if the future is already true.
An Invitation for You to Start Going First
So yes, I’m building a company. But really, I’m building a map. A record for the ones who will come after, so they won’t have to wait for permission, or proof, or perfect timing. If you’ve been waiting for a sign, maybe this is it. Maybe your story, like mine, starts with a leap before the crowd catches up.
Go first. The rest will follow. Promise.
P.S. This piece is the heartbeat behind Signal First, the system I’m documenting as I build. It’s about broadcasting a future so clearly that the present has to rearrange around it. Every essay here is a field note from that experiment: leadership, faith, and freedom in real time.
