104 Who Do You Think You Are?
Who do you think you are?
I am definitely about one purpose, and I think I’m part of the human
family and a part of the universe that’s all connected. I think my purpose
is to do the best I can to express myself and to be in life in a way that I
learn as much as I can, and am able to give back as much as I can by the
end of my life. When I get there I’d like to say, at this time I have done
my best to leave it a better place. I will have made sure that the people I
interacted with are in a better place as a result of knowing me and they
were touched by me in some way. It’s an expression of life that’s growing
and evolving.
What event or series of events led to your discovery?
I think the first major thing was my teachers when I was young growing
up. They always told me that I could have anything and do anything, and
that anything was possible. So that’s how I viewed the world. When I
was twenty-one I met my aunt, who is a clairvoyant healer. She suggested
I study world religions, meditate, understand how my body and mind
worked, and understand how energy worked. She taught me the
perspective that we’re all connected. That humanity and the earth and
nature are all connected, and that I could come from a higher power by
going deep inside myself and connecting to that.
Next, I met Werner Erhard. I was about twenty-three years old
when I met him, and he had just been made an instructor for a company
called Mind Dynamics. I took his first seminar for Mind Dynamics and I
soon became one of his staff members. Later that year, we created a
seminar company called est. About ten people were the original founders.
I spent ten years with Werner as the Vice President of est, which
later became The Landmark Forum. During those years I was the
spokesperson for est and in charge of all the marketing, promotion,
production, and enrollment. I trained the guest seminar leaders and the
trainers, taught the seminar leaders how to speak effectively in front of
groups, and was in charge of filling all of the events.
During those ten years of my life I learned so much about how
one manifests, how one creates results in this universe, about the law of
attraction, the power of the word and how we use language, and how to
connect with other people. Life since then has been an ever-evolving
process. It’s being about growing, learning more, connecting more, and
been able to make a bigger contribution as I move through life.