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A study in modern female excellence-- where wealth becomes consciousness, relationships become architecture, and life becomes deliberate, sensual art. For high-income, high-functioning women feeling the pull to soften into their high feminine: think relaxed wealth, marriages with first-year heat twenty years in, and the tiny, exquisite choices that make an ordinary Tuesday feel like a five star resort stay. houseofarete.substack.com
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- 3 days ago1h 18m
Surrendering to God’s Enormous Plans for You
We’re getting ready to move into our $3 million house. Part of preparing has been decluttering our current house, and today I found over a dozen journals I’ve filled over the past 10 years.Inside of it? I describe the exact house, in absolutely insane detail (the house hadn’t even been built yet when I was writing about it).I kept reading. There it was again. And again.This house. I was writing about this house.The big expansive windows I was dreaming about? Here is a snapshot of our new living room that is literally an entire wall of floor to ceiling sliding doors looking out onto our mature trees and the extraordinary city view, right next to the giant 12 foot kitchen island that I also wrote about:Oh and this journal entry? I wrote it 5 years ago, before I’d even started doing Pilates regularly. Here I am, years later, with the passive multimillions, the extraordinary health, and here is an AI rendering of the game room I’m designing in the new house for the kids (SEPARATE from our open concept living area upstairs, just like I wrote!):The truth is… it’s all better than I ever even had on my Vision Board. I never even thought to ask for or write about the extraordinary downtown views. Or the secret speakeasy, built behind a secret door.Or the spacious finished storage room (which for city people, you know how wild it is to have spare square footage for this!!).Even the way the house was built is more magical than I ever could have asked for— the house was built by a spiritual business, and the literal wood the house is constructed with— the framing— has words like “Love,” “Faith,” “Grace,” and “Surrender,” written all over the boards. You would never see them walking through the house, but you feel the depth of Spirit dwelling throughout the home.I cried talking about it in this audio drop. There’s something tender about reading the words of a woman who wanted something with her whole body, knowing what she had yet to find out.I’m so glad I let her want it. And I’m so glad I’ve allowed God to bless me with more than I could ever dream of.This audio drop is less of a teaching podcast, and more of a living prayer. In order to live at the Apex, you have to open yourself to dreaming bigger, and to recognizing that there is something greater than you conspiring constantly in your favor.Many of us are visionaries who were told to be practical as little girls. How early we learned to look at someone else’s face before we’d even finished saying what we wanted. It takes a while to get your imagination back after that. To sit alone with a blank page and let yourself get a little indecent about how good you’d like your life to feel.This drop is about Relaxed Millions, dreaming BIG, receiving BIG, and truly having it all. After listening my prayer for you is:* Your imagination has a little more room. The desire you usually edit mid-sentence gets to come out whole, in all its exquisite, unreasonable detail.* Your ambition feels good in your body again. You can feel the difference between a next move that makes you come alive and one you’d make just to quiet the part of you that thinks you should be doing more.* Your hands and heart are a little more open. You can tell God exactly what you want, let the prayer leave your hands, and your magnetism calls in blessings and miracles that your little human brain could have never even thought to ask for.Let this transmission wash over you, expand your capacity for being and having, and dream a dream bigger than you’ve ever let yourself.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating an Apex Life with Work Optional Wealth, Luxurious Time, and otherworldly Love? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- 2 weeks ago41 min
Judge Thy Neighbor: What Your Money Triggers Reveal
Whose life makes you think, “Must be nice”?Perhaps it’s the woman whose husband runs a multimillion-dollar business while she paints and takes trips to Paris.You support women. You support art. You certainly support Paris.And yet you would like to know what, exactly, she does all day.Or perhaps it’s the woman who can provide beautifully for her family without working anymore. Everyone is taken care of. She’s enjoying herself. Somehow, this makes it worse.We can be surprisingly particular about how much suffering should accompany someone else’s good fortune.In this episode, we’re following those little flashes of judgment into the unconscious money scripts underneath them: the family rules about usefulness, hard work, sacrifice, and who gets to have a delicious life.Because “we’re hardworking people” can sound like a lovely family value—until you try taking a Tuesday off.We’ll explore:* Would you still respect yourself if making money became extraordinarily easy? The uncomfortable possibility that being exhausted is part of an unconscious money script of how you prove you deserve what you have.* Who would you be betraying if allowed your life to be filled with wealth and ease? How love for your family of origin can become an unspoken agreement that caps your wealth potential.* The guilt nobody mentions about truly living the life of your dreams. Why buying our new $3 million dollar home has brought my father’s childhood poverty into the room, the unconscious money scripts it has revealed, and the ancestral cords I’m choosing to cut.* Full permission slip to bring your pettiest thoughts here. They brought the excavation equipment. Two practices to follow one deliciously judgmental thought into the glacier of inherited money rules beneath it—so you can finally see what’s been running your life, and choose what happens next.Bring your generosity of spirit. Bring your least generous private opinion.We’re going to see what it knows.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating an Apex Life with Work Optional Wealth, Luxurious Time, and otherworldly Love? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Oct 6, 202650 min
Crafting a Life with Zero Tradeoffs: Success Secrets of Apex Living
Having it all has always been an alluring idea.A life of extraordinary wealth… and ample white space in your calendar to enjoy it. Being there when the kids get home from school… and also having a career you find creatively fulfilling and deeply meaningful. Feeling strong and good in our bodies… and still feeling soft, relaxed, and deeply feminine.But somewhere along the way, we have been taught that these things cannot coexist together.Money or peace. Ambition or motherhood. A dependable twenty-year marriage or sex worth canceling dinner for.“I’d rather be happy than rich” passes for wisdom, as though happiness and financial thriving somehow aren’t allowed to play together?And “something has to give” sounds so reasonable that we rarely ask who decided that…or what becomes possible when we stop agreeing.Because once we accept that two desires are incompatible, we don’t create a life where we have it all. We anticipate the loss, organize around it, and eventually call it “reality.”How much money, pleasure, and freedom have women left on the table by agreeing they couldn’t have them together?Spoiler Alert: A LOT.In this episode, I cover:* The phrases you are saying every single day that immediately reveal what you believe you must give up to have what you want—and how those unquestioned assumptions go on to severely limit your wealth, freedom, and pleasure.* Why earning $120,000 cost me more freedom than our million-dollar years. What changed (and why working harder would have made the problem worse).* What “I’d rather be happy than rich” has in common with “exhaustion is the price of success.” The belief that keeps one woman from making money and another from enjoying it.* How growing my business helped me be at the bus stop at three. What I had to rethink so making more money could mean more afternoons filled with white space with my babies.* The relationship philosophy that keeps our nearly twenty-year marriage deep, playful, and hot—with three children. The practices behind the passion, and what gets missed when fading desire is dismissed as the “married with kids tax.”* The question to ask before giving up something you love to get something you want. A starting point for building the life you keep being told requires a sacrifice.This is Apex Living: overflowing finances, luxurious time, a radiant mind and body, creational sovereignty, and relational richness.Before the ambition gets smaller, the marriage gets quieter, or pleasure gets postponed for another decade, the premise deserves a challenge.How much money, freedom, love and time have we sacrificed to an imaginary mental tradeoff we simply never questioned?🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating an Apex Life with Zero Tradeoffs? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Sep 30, 202643 min
Wealth as the Medicine Path to Your Highest Potential
Modern life has an excellent arrangement: work to afford the car, drive the car to work, and spend the weekend recovering sufficiently to repeat the experience.Meanwhile, being perpetually busy, under-supported, and exhausted has become so ordinary that a deeply nourished life sounds extravagant.Even personal development tends to offer two lanes: therapy to heal what happened, coaching to achieve what comes next.But where do we learn to cultivate the conditions for a life meant to flourish?This is where wealth becomes medicine.Luxurious time. Overflowing finances. Relational richness. Creational sovereignty. A radiant mind and body.Together, these forms of wealth expand what life can hold. Desire has somewhere to go. Beauty has time to be felt. An ordinary afternoon can become delicious.In a culture that praises women for overgiving, allowing ourselves to be deeply resourced is a revolutionary act.This episode makes a case for the goodness of wealth and its deeply medicinal qualities—as the nourishing foundation of a flourishing life, worthy of cultivation long before everything is healed or every goal achieved.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating Work Optional Wealth? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Sep 23, 202652 min
Getting Rich and Becoming Wealthy Are Two Different Games: The Money Rules that Change from Your First Million to Your Next Ten
There is a peculiar stage of financial success in which a woman has become extraordinarily good at making money—and remains quietly uncertain about what to do once she has made it.Her business may generate $500,000 with one assistant and almost suspiciously little overhead. She may receive seven figures in stock compensation from a company whose ticker symbol now has an alarming amount of influence over her emotional state. She may run a multimillion-dollar company with an executive team, a complicated tax strategy and no clear answer to the question, How much is enough?She understands revenue, profit and growth.But should the cash be invested? Kept available? Reinvested in the business? Used to pay off the house? Diversified away from the asset that created it? Allowed to fund a larger life?The available guidance is strangely unsatisfying.One expert recommends more leverage. Another recommends eliminating all debt. The internet says the market averages 10%. A financial advisor produces several attractive pie charts and discovers the S&P 500.None of it quite addresses the massive transition taking place.Because getting rich and becoming wealthy are two entirely different games.Getting rich often rewards concentration, risk and extraordinary personal performance. One business. One career. One offer. One company’s stock. One audacious bet that works far better than diversification ever could.But after meaningful capital and multimillions have been created, the assignment begins to change.Now the woman who knows how to generate money must learn how to convert it into something capable of existing without her.In this episode:* Why the strategy that creates the first millions should not automatically govern the next* The overlooked financial transition between high income and durable wealth* When concentration is an intelligent wealth-building strategy—and when it becomes unnecessary exposure* Why keeping hundreds of thousands in cash and keeping everything in the market can both be forms of unexamined risk* How wealth-building differs when the primary asset is a saleable company, company stock or the founder’s own brilliance* When paying off debt creates more freedom than maximizing theoretical investment returns* How to divide money between growth, protection, liquidity and an actually beautiful life* The shift from accumulating assets to building work-optional sovereigntyThis is not a celebration of leverage for wealth building, nor is it a moral crusade against any and all debt.It is a more nuanced financial architecture for the woman whose money has outgrown beginner advice, but whose wealth has not yet arrived with a chalet in Geneva and a gentleman named Charles.Welcome to the journey from your first million to your tenth, in less than an hour.🎧 Enjoyed this podcast?Subscribe above, leave a review with your biggest takeaway, and share it with the women you know are meant for the apex of life, wealth, love, and freedom.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating Work Optional Wealth? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Sep 15, 202659 min
Emotional Wealth: Can You Actually Become a Happier Person?
Can you actually become a happier person—or are you destined to return to the same emotional baseline, only with a better handbag?The internet recommends gratitude lists, regular exercise and meditation. Excellent advice—unless you turn gratitude into clerical work, exercise into punishment and meditation into another activity you must perform correctly.In this episode:* The truth about happiness baselines and why major achievements often produce only temporary emotional bumps* Why you can write five things in a gratitude journal and feel absolutely nothing below your neck* How anger, urgency or low-grade bracing can become an emotional signature you mistake for your personality* The difference between managing your emotions and becoming deeply available for joy, pleasure, love and extraordinary intimacy in your life* How to make serenity, pleasure and love your emotional baseline instead of occasional places you visit on vacation.So to be clear: Can you actually become a happier person?The answer is yes—and not in a modest, “gratitude journal improved my mood by 8%” kind of way. You can consciously raise your emotional baseline until your day-to-day life feels 100x richer, softer and more alive—and love, pleasure and joy become where you actually inside of your body day to day.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to living in Emotional Wealth? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack🎧 Enjoyed this podcast?Subscribe above, drop a comment with your biggest takeaway, and share it with the women you know are meant for the apex of life, wealth, love, and freedom. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Sep 9, 20261h 5m
Grounded Audacity: How to Have Insane Things Without Stressing Your Way There
You want it all—the extraordinary wealth, the insane marriage, the white space on your calendar and the truly happy family (not just the one that looks happy on the Christmas card).But when you want the Apex of everything, how do you hold the extraordinary possibility of it?Most people fall into one of two camps, neither of which work:One camp blindly decides it’s all going to work out, averts her eyes from any evidence to the contrary and is genuinely astonished when reality has follow-up questions.The other creates a spreadsheet titled WORST CASE—FINAL—v7, anticipates every possible thing that could go wrong and calls the resulting anxiety “being responsible.”One gets blindsided by problems. The other is never blindsided because she has already lived through each of them seventeen times in her imagination.But what if you didn’t have to choose between delusion and constant dread?In this episode:* The surprising psychology behind blind optimism and defensive pessimism* Why worrying can make you extraordinarily successful—and quietly miserable* Why so many brilliant women mistake anxiety for responsibility* The difference between identifying and planning for obstacles versus constantly expecting a disaster* How to prepare brilliantly without high anxiety, worry, or stress* The mind-body orientation that makes your boldest dreams inevitable without making your life more anxiousMeet Grounded Audacity: the just-right place between blindly believing it will happen and anxiously preparing for everything to go wrong.Because it is possible to create a life beyond your wildest vision without lying to yourself—or terrorizing yourself into building it.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to the Apex? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack🎧 Enjoyed this podcast?Subscribe above, drop a comment with your biggest takeaway, and share it with the women you know are meant for the apex of life, wealth, love, and freedom. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
- Aug 26, 20261h 6m
How to Have the Bigger House, the Nicer Car & Still Build the Work-Optional Wealth
There is a peculiar thing that happens when a woman begins making very good money.The house gets bigger. The car gets nicer. The kitchen that seemed charming at $150,000 a year becomes an intolerable human-rights violation at $500,000.None of it feels reckless. She can afford every payment.She just can’t stop working.This is the crux high earners run into on their path to building work optional wealth— The loan officer will tell you that you can afford the home. The dealership will tell you that you can have the car. It turns out everyone is thrilled to help you spend all of your income.But the math that you begin calculating becomes VERY different when you decide to have two things:* Work optional wealth for the future AND* An extraordinary lifestyle NOWMy husband and I are considering buying a multimillion dollar home, and today I am breaking down what I’m doing after joyously perusing shimmering pools on Zillow, to calculate the less photogenic realities: property taxes, insurance, landscaping, maintenance— and how much future income the house will require.Because Zillow tells you what it costs to buy the house. It does not tell you what kind of life you’ll need to maintain to keep it.In this episode, you’ll learn how to:* Createa deep understanding of what is “affordable” based on your current income and the wealth you intend to build (not the debt someone will approve!)* Calculate the four different costs hidden inside every big purchase you make that extend FAR beyond the purchase price* Evaluate a house, car or lifestyle upgrade against your work-optional goal* Distinguish intentional lifestyle expansion from the perfectly respectable spending that keeps high earners working forever* Know when spending more will enrich your life—and when the wiser answer is not yetThe goal is not to keep your life small.It is to build enough wealth that your life can become gloriously, intentionally large—without costing you your freedom.🥂 Craving luxurious support on your journey to creating Work Optional Wealth? Explore private mentorship and ways to work together here:Work with Me Here📖 Head here for a curated collection of essays on wealth:The Arete Salon: The Art of Wealth Collection🎤 Media inquiries, keynote speaking, podcast interviews, and collaborations:Media & Speaking Requests💌 Join the House of Arete Substack for weekly essays and audio drops on wealth, marriage, motherhood, sensuality, and the art of Apex Living:House of Arete on Substack🎧 Enjoyed this podcast?Subscribe above, drop a comment with your biggest takeaway, and share it with the women you know are meant for the apex of life, wealth, love, and freedom. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit houseofarete.substack.com
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A study in modern female excellence-- where wealth becomes consciousness, relationships become architecture, and life becomes deliberate, sensual art. For high-income, high-functioning women feeling the pull to soften into their high feminine: think relaxed wealth, marriages with first-year heat twenty years in, and the tiny, exquisite choices that make an ordinary Tuesday feel like a five star resort stay. houseofarete.substack.com
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