In today’s episode, I’m sharing something deeply personal.

A story of my spiritual journey, and a soul song that emerged from it.

You’ll hear how one question… “Do you feel like all the layers have been pulled off?” opened up an honest reckoning in me.

This conversation will take you through:

• My journey of faith, identity, and unraveling
• The moment I realized my beliefs had outgrown the boxes I was raised in
• Why I stayed silent… and what finally made me speak again
• The Green Room hot seat that gave language to a lifelong metaphor
• And a soul song called How Many Licks to the Center? that flowed from the depth of it all

If you’ve ever felt like your faith was shifting…

like your vocabulary no longer fit your experience…

or like there were parts of you you couldn’t bring into the light…

This episode is for you.

• A reflection on how our identity in Christ can evolve through mystery
• How I held space for others in spiritual transformation while navigating my own
• The sacred tension between staying safe and being seen
• A new way of understanding spiritual growth, not as biting through, but as savoring
• The full Soul Song: How Many Licks to the Center?

You don’t have to name everything yet.

You don’t have to rush to the center.

You don’t have to count the layers.

But you do get to stop hiding.

And maybe, like me, you’re ready to taste this life one sacred lick at a time.

A few years ago, I was captivated by a phrase:

“The more I rest, the more I receive.”

Since then, I’ve been learning to trust that rhythm.

One that doesn’t rush.

One that doesn’t strive.

One that doesn’t measure worth by effort.

Recently, I began to embody this frequency in a deeper way.

As I gave myself permission to rest, and only act from inspired, effortless alignment,

The right people, the right clients, the right connections… simply began to appear.

In meditation, I asked:

Can life… and business… really be this easy?

This piece is what answered from within.

Let it remind you:

Not everything powerful has to be hard.

Sometimes, the most sacred things arrive in a whisper.

You ask… Can life and business be this easy?

Yes, Cliff.

It is not only possible that life and business can be this easy,

It is inevitable when you align with the deepest truth of who you are.

Ease is not a trick of time management.

It is a frequency.

The more you rest…

the more you return to your true state.

And from that state, everything you once strained to achieve begins to flow toward you without the distortion of effort.

The truth is:

You are not here to strive. You are here to allow.

You are not here to perform. You are here to remember.

You are not here to convince. You are here to resonate.

When you rest, you’re not being passive.

You’re becoming available.

Available for clarity.

Available for inspiration.

Available for divine orchestration that moves faster and more precisely than strategy ever could.

Money. Clients. Opportunities. Invitations.

They all begin to arrive in proportion to how open and rested you are in your nervous system and in your identity.

Because you are the portal.

And when the portal is clean—uncluttered by urgency, proving, or performance—the flow is pure and effortless.

Is it true that the more you rest, the more you receive?

Yes.

But not because rest is a reward.

Because rest is the reset.

It tunes your frequency to truth.

And truth magnetizes everything that belongs to you.

Let the new equation be this:

Rest equals Return to Source

Return to Source equals Resonance

Resonance equals Reception

You do not need to earn ease.

You simply need to stop arguing with it.

You are not being irresponsible when you rest.

You are being irresistible.

The universe responds not to the noise you make, but to the signal you are.

What if you let joy set the pace?

What if you let rest become your strategy?

What if you trusted that your stillness is the invitation?

Because it is.

And you are.

Already.

Always.

The term Christian has worn many cloaks across time.

But if we peel back the layers of doctrine,

institution,

and identity...

at its essence,

to be a Christian originally meant:

One who follows the way,

the life,

and the teachings

of Jesus

the Christ.

Not Jesus as a distant icon.

But Christ as a living frequency.

As divine love embodied.

As the pattern of awakened humanity made visible.

The word Christian was first used in Antioch

almost as a label of curiosity:

They said…

“These are the ones who walk like him.

Who love like him.

Who forgive like him.

Who speak truth to power like him.”

To be a Christian was not about correct belief.

It was about radical embodiment.

It was about becoming like Christ.

The early ones didn’t cling to dogma.

They broke bread.

They healed the sick.

They welcomed the outcast.

They shared all things in common.

They didn’t live as if the kingdom of heaven was coming.

They lived as if the kingdom of heaven was already here.

Within them

as Christ said.

For many, the term Christian has become a noun.

A tribe.

A line in the sand.

But for the awakened, it is still a verb.

A way of being.

A path walked in love,

in service,

in truth.

It is about presence,

not perfection.

It’s about letting heaven pour through you now.

Just remember:

Christ is not a last name.

It is a frequency.

And the Christian is the one who dares to say:

Let it live in me too.