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Yash from Authentic Austin
January 27, 2025
Hey friends, hope you’re staying warm and cozy amidst the cold 🥶.
As promised, I’m sharing the second half of A²'s Annual Reflection in this post. Feel free to use this to guide your own reflection this season. If you do, I’d love to hear what you think!
💫 Join us for a transformational healing experience
tl;dr: We’re partnering with The Sanctuary and Speak Your Mind to facilitate a transformational experience designed to support you in times of transition, empower you to let go of what no longer serves you and reconnect you with your intuition. You’ll emerge ready to step into your full potential. If you’ve been to a Conscious Connection meetup, it’ll be like the depth of connection there x1000.
The experience includes:
🌠 5-Day immersive guided retreat (facilitated connection, introspection, nature experiences, and holotropic breathwork ceremonies)
👩🏾🍳 Chef-cooked meals
😌 Integration support post-retreat
All in beautiful Hawaii 🏝️
❗Housekeeping update
tl;dr: I’ll be out of town in February. Meetups will continue, facilitated by my friend and cool human Sandra Bershad! More about her in the post.
🎯 What’s Included
🧑🤝🧑 From the Community
❗Feedback requests, Rounding out the A² Annual Reflection Retreat, Rounding out the January meetup, February meetup details + introducing Sandra
💡 Skill Spotlight
The Authentic Annual Review (pt. 2)
📆 Join us IRL
A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on February 12 at 6:00pm.
We're inviting both the market-focused leader AND the spiritual seeker within you to the table. It's a great place to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.
Our calendar is the hub for A² IRL gatherings. Subscribing is the easiest way to get notified of these!
🧑🤝🧑 From The Community
❗We’ve received feedback from you all on how to improve our events.
1️⃣ Thank you so much for the gift of your feedback 🙏🏾.
2️⃣ We’re exploring ways to give space at meetups for people to share offerings, events, and community gatherings that are aligned with A²’s mission. Also, if you want me to include something in the newsletter, send it over!
3️⃣ A few of you have asked for an easier way to connect with people after events. We’re thinking through how to offer this in an aligned way (i.e., we don’t need another uncurated Whatsapp group filled with promotional spam). If you have thoughts, please share! You can respond to this email, text me, send a carrier pigeon, whatever.
The group @ A²’s Annual Reflection for Actual People
💖 Rounding out A²’s Annual Reflection for Actual People
I’m so grateful to share that our first retreat under the Authentic Austin banner was a smashing success!
Over 6 hours, we meditated, connected, reflected on 2024, took inventory of the current state of our lives, and co-created visions for what boldly stepping into 2025 looks like.
What stood out from the experience was how FUN it is to reflect in the company of others, and share those reflections in the community. And how we are all kindred spirits who have a deep desire to support each other in our paths ❤️
Johanna sharing in circle
🤓 deep reflection
💫 Rounding out the January meetup (x Gildre)
Our January meetup was awesome. We set a new record for turnout (yay!) and had incredibly rich conversations that covered gender dynamics, life post-exit, managing co-founder conflict, the wisdom that comes with age, and so much more.
A few people who had other places to be ended up staying for the full event. I think that says it all 😁
Thank you again to our partners at Gildre for sponsoring the space for this meetup!
More about them: Gildre is the premier, invite-only knowledge community for ambitious founders, providing exclusive access to mentors, events, and tools to help you build a successful company.
The group!
Breakouts
🅰️² x 👩 February meetup + Introducing Sandra
 | Sandra is a Brand Therapist, Organizational Consultant, and Somatic Coach who helps individuals, founders, and teams achieve authentic breakthroughs. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in realigning brands, fostering organizational coherence, and guiding personal transformation through somatic-based coaching. By blending psychology, neuroscience, and strategic vision, Sandra empowers clients to thrive with clarity, ease, and purpose. → More |
Sandra will be facilitating the February Conscious Connection event (and more!). If you’ve come to previous events, you got a chance to meet her. Her energy is lovely and I’m so excited to have her facilitate and meet you all.
We're building Conscious Connection by inviting both the market-focused leader AND the spiritual seeker within you to the table.
Know anyone that’s looking for more of that in their life? I’d appreciate it if you invited them to our next event!
💡 Skill Spotlight
tl;dr: Authentic Annual Reflection isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s an invitation to reflect on what truly matters and discover clarity and alignment without the pressure of constant striving.
The Authentic Annual Review, Pt. 2
This is an invitation to approach your annual review with intention and ease. Instead of hustling for what’s next, we invite you to shift your focus to aligning with what truly matters in your life. It’s a chance to explore possibilities from a place of “being” rather than “doing”.
The Authentic Annual Review has 6 parts. We'll finish out the last 3 today.
Gather Memories
Learnings
Current Life
Edit
Looking Ahead
Letter to Self
➡️ Dive in
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📚 Resource Corner
Blog Post: The Annual Review by Downshift
📆 Join Us IRL
A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on February 12 at 6:00pm.
We're inviting both the market-focused leader AND the spiritual seeker within you to the table. It's a great place to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.
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📫 Our calendar is the hub for A² IRL gatherings. Subscribing is the easiest way to get notified of these!
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