Something From Nothing: Death Cycle & the CEO (An FoT Anniversary Celebration)

In this spontaneous drop, I take you back three years—to an intersection point of a death cycle, garbage truck Youtube, and a vision too sacred to ignore. As we celebrate my mastermind's third anniversary, this is the origin story of Fire of Transformation™, now in its multi-six-figure legacy era—and how it began with a Zoom link, two clients, and a total life collapse (which a client just called "the firmest ground").

We’re talking devotion, depth diving, and the priestess power of alchemizing something from nothing.

If you’ve ever wondered how to lead your business in seasons of destruction, desire, or divine chaos, this is your reminder that your current reality has nothing on your future power.

Because what looks like a breakdown might just be the blueprint. And the version of you building the next era of your life and leadership is already arriving.

This is the kind of legacy you build when you stop negotiating with yourself and lead the business that reflects your next evolution. Book a private Intensive (DM Elizabeth on IG) or apply to Fire of Transformation™. 

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Welcome to Business Priestess Activation, audio drops for mystics in business where entrepreneurship is ritual, strategy is soulcraft, and expansion is inevitable. I'm Elizabeth Rowan, spiritual mentor, yogi, and business priestess. Here we don't do formulas, we do fire. These transmissions are potent activations to ignite your long-term strategy, self-leadership, energetic mastery and embodiment, and lasting legacy in the world. Because your sacred work isn't just business, it's business and being. Let's begin. Welcome back, Priestess. Today's drop is completely spontaneous. And as you can hear, I've got some background noise going on, two very good boys, etc. But I couldn't wait to share this with you and have been in voice notes with some of the initial clients that I'm going to make mention of here today, in such a state of celebration. Go lay down. There's some real life for you. In such a state of celebration and reflection, amusement and honoring a former version of me that 100% got me to where I am currently in my business in my life. So three years ago, this month, almost to the day, I left a long-term relationship, moved into my sister's house, into her guest room across the hall from her then two-year-old toddler. And had a bigger vision for my work. I had been doing a lot of one-on-one work. I had been doing a lot of three-month-long packages and maybe six months as a stretch, and was finding myself in the same conversations with clients again and again and again. And was also becoming increasingly aware of the metaphor that business is for our becoming. If you have already worked with me, you know and I trust practice this one deeply yourself. So let me paint a picture for you. Three years ago this month, almost to the day, my sister reveals after I have moved in with them that she is newly pregnant with their second baby. Amazing. Her husband, love him, was going to be traveling for several weeks, if I recall, like in Asia, across the world, multiple, multiple time zones away. So that leaves me post-breakup, total life up people. My newly pregnant sister, and a two-year-old in his very acute two-year-old fullest toddler expression self. My the guest room was across the hall from his little playroom. Some of my then clients would remember hearing him, perhaps right there outside the door. We were, and the metaphor is lost on no one, routinely watching with him YouTube's. This would go on for hours of garbage trucks. And that is so hilarious to me here, looking back, because that is a perfect representation of what my life felt like that summer, that August of 2022. Total hot mess, total upheaval, not even void, worse, like the chaos that I created en route to moving toward a different, more true to me, more mature, more expansive, more embodied, more healed version of my life and desire to bring that to fruition also in my business. So you can imagine the three of us, me, her two-year-old, a first trimester lady, dinner every night. There was never not someone crying, like the conditions that pre-fall were just messy in now, such a like endearing way, and proved to be incredibly fertile ground for me, also being in this state of creation, this state of almost a nothing to lose, pure potentiality, something from nothing, creative state. And in that guest room, in that moment in my life, I conceived fire of transformation mastermind. At that time, it started as truly nothing but a name. I was calling it fire of transformation. A maybe it was a self-leadership salon, something like that. I had the name, I had a Zoom link, I had a way for people to pay, and I had two clients. And bless those two clients. We have stayed in touch, worked together repeatedly, collabed, etc., since then. And that's how this entire now signature multi-six figure full sub brand trademark pending 12-month evergreen mastermind came to be from me living out of a bag with a desire to do my business differently and deeper. A Zoom link, two clients who felt it spoke to them at that iteration, at that moment in their lifetimes, and my small dog and my most immediate belongings in a bag in a guest room. Cut to present. Just excited, awed, proud, wondrous, grateful state of reflection over here this entire month. In fact, I'm sure there will be more than one audio drop around this. Certainly something a bit more outlined, perhaps, than this very in the moment riff. In celebration of not just what it has come to be and every client who has stepped into circle with us, who I have had the deep privilege of witnessing and serving and celebrating as well, but also the state of life that availed itself to the creation of this magic. If you had told me then what it would come to be, I would not have believed you. I certainly hoped it lasted longer than, say, the first six-month round. I certainly had high hopes that it took off, that it became something at the very least, an alternative option to offer repeat three-month one-on-one clients. And once I started it, I didn't look back. I decided to not negotiate with myself to hold myself to the standard in this creation that I was holding myself to in my life rebuild. This no holding back, we are going for it on a deeper, more expansive, and more mature sense of being in my life and my work. And here we are. I am anticipating spending the entire month of August in, like I say, deep reflection, awe inspiration at how very much we can, as I like to say, pull things out of thin air, truly create something from nothing. You as an entrepreneur listening to this, as a priestess, already know that is the nature of what we do. Before there's an offer, before a tagline, before you have videography, branding, trademark, raising your rates, clients, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, it all comes back to that. Creating something from nothing, except I'm going actually to add an asterisk onto the nothing because it's really creating something from a vision, a desire, and this decision to no longer compromise with yourself on your freaking life. And I have more anecdotes where this comes from in creating in this way, and have witnessed dozens of women and fellow entrepreneurs create in this similar way. It is very much the nature of the divine feminine brought forth from the void. This is the tomb to womb and executed, installed, and carried out alongside of divine masculine synergy and strategy. So we'll get into that in a future drop. But I want mostly here to speak to the fact that so much beyond your wildest imagination is possible tomorrow, next month, next year, three years from now, that current you quite possibly cannot even fathom. That is one small part of the magic when we work together, is that it is quite literally my job as your mentor and guide to fathom. It is my job as your mentor and guide to vision that big and deep and vast and hold it in the moments where you question your capacity and steer it in the moments where you may not feel you can see the forest for the trees. This is the nature of the work that we do, no matter how established or brand new your business is, the nature of your work in the world as a mystic, as a priestess, as a visionary, a leader, and a metaphorical and literal temple tender is creating from nothing. Think of that. That is your innate power, magic, and gift. This is what we do. I will be back with more in-depth drops throughout this month around teachings, things that I have learned and absolutely would and absolutely would not repeat in the last three years of my journey and creation of the Fire of Transformation Mastermind. And in the meantime, I invite you to create for yourself the conditions for some semblance of reflection, wonder, awe, take your own breath away at the power of your work in the world and your endless ability to create out of thin air. If this is speaking to you, if you already know that stepping into this circle is where it's at for your trajectory for your leapfrog forward, some call this collapsing time into the next absolute greatest mind-blowing iteration of your sacred work, revenue, clients, community, connections, and creation apply to join us today. We cannot wait to welcome you inside. I trust that you are celebrating yourself.