When Tides Rise
Building a new boat for Wildpreneur
Years ago, I joined
on her KnotWork Storytelling podcast to explore the tale of Cessair, Noah’s granddaughter, and her doomed voyage to Ireland. This myth is ancient, yet it holds messages for us today—especially as we navigate a rapidly changing world.Marisa and I delved deep into what it means to face the rising tides of life and business. What happens when the waters rise? How do we adapt, rebuild, and choose a path forward? The story of Cessair, though tragic in parts, is also brimming with courage, creativity, and love. It challenges us to see the floods not as endings, but as invitations to reimagine the way we move through the world.
If you’ve never heard of Cessair, let me tell you: she was a woman who didn’t just accept the rules handed to her. (She is a woman after my own heart!) Cast out by Noah’s patriarchal vision, she dared to chart her own course. She and her community built their own boats, crafted from hope and ingenuity, and set out to find dry land. They didn’t succeed in the conventional sense—but their story endures as a reminder that the attempt to live on your terms, even in messy and unpredictable waters, is itself a triumph.
When I think about this story now, I see its fingerprints on my own work and on the evolution of Wildpreneur. I’ve never been one to blindly follow the rules—I’ve always pushed back against bullying, cliques, and following along just because we “should.” There’s something in my core that balks at the idea of doing something just because it’s always been done that way. Instead, I laugh at convention and blaze my own path—a spirit I call irreverent joy. It’s a force that fuels my business, my relationships, and my entire life, empowering me to challenge the status quo and invite others to do the same.
As we explore what it means to run a heart-centered, aligned business, we’re not just building boats to escape floods—we’re crafting arks of our own design.
Navigating the Messy Middle
One of the themes Marisa and I explored in that episode is the messiness of creation—whether it’s building a business, starting a project, or steering through the unexpected. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn recently.
Take a recent workshop I hosted for my Substack subscribers. I showed up prepared (perhaps too prepared)—script in hand, metaphors ready, all tied to my beloved concept of ecosystems. But as the session progressed, something felt off. The participants weren’t connecting with my carefully crafted plan.
Midway through, I had to ditch my script and pivot, listening to the energy of the group instead of clinging to my vision. What emerged was so much richer: a conversation about the soul of business, a reimagining of how we birth our businesses into the world as living, breathing entities with their own energy and needs.
That workshop reminded me of something fundamental: when we trust the whispers of our intuition, even when it’s messy, the results can be transformational.
A Wildpreneur Pivot
And now, I’m taking my own medicine. Wildpreneur is pivoting—not in a dramatic “flood-and-flounder” kind of way, but in an intentional re-centering.
The heart of my work isn’t just marketing or strategy—it’s about bringing the sacred into the act of business creation. It’s about helping entrepreneurs birth their dreams into the world, not through hustle or sacrifice, but through alignment, creativity, and integrity.
This shift means leaning into what lights me up:
The Soul of Business: Guiding purpose-driven entrepreneurs to connect with the essence of their business and bring it to life with clarity and care.
Sacred Creativity: Treating business-building as an art form, a divine act of creation.
Breaking Hustle Culture: Crafting abundance through alignment instead of burnout.
Heart-Centered Integrity: Making decisions from a place of wholeness and authenticity.
This is what Wildpreneur is becoming: a space to weave golden threads of imagination into lush, thriving realities.
Join Me
If this vision resonates with you, I invite you to listen to that conversation with Marisa Goudy on her podcast, Knotwork Storytelling, and hear how Cessair’s story offers wisdom for today.
➡️ Listen to “When Tides Rise: Build Your Own Boat” here.
Together, let’s honor the sacredness of creating businesses and lives we love. Let’s pivot when needed, listen to the whispers of our hearts, and bring joy into the work we do.
Weaving the Threads
I’d love to hear from you:
✨ Where in your life or business have you followed your own version of irreverent joy?
🚣🏻♂️ Have you ever faced a “flood” moment and built your own boat—or made a milkshake when the ice cream was melting?
Share your story in the comments—I can’t wait to hear how you’ve navigated the messy, magical waters of creating something truly your own.
Here’s to wild, brave, heart-centered dreaming. 🌿
This is beautiful, visionary work I am tagging @Judith Manriquez in my comment because she, too, is rebuilding her boat. Just as I recently did. The tide is rising - it's time.
Oh I’m in the thick of the floods I feel. Thinking I was prepared for the storm I leap out and all my tools were not up to par. Trying to keep my head above waters I’ve been recreating a boat. It’s challenging, frustrating and overwhelming.
Especially when I see others start to create the things I am and I watch them take off yet I’m still flowing here. I know I have all the right pieces, sometimes I feel the hardest part is being seen by the right people.