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Healing from The Deepest Shame I’ve Ever Known
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At first, I didn’t think a voice dictation app would make me any faster.
I also doubted a 3rd-party app would be faster than my Mac’s built-in voice dictation.
Wow, was I ever wrong.
Here’s my stats from using Wispr Flow now for over 6 months:
Seeing as I can type (accurately) 45-50 WPM, dictating on Wispr Flow at 133 WPM has nearly tripled how fast I work when typing.
3 Ways it Beats Your Computer’s Native Voice Dictation
Why not just use your computer’s built-in dictation tool?
Wispr Flow blows everything else away.
Writes What You Mean, Not Just What You Said
More than once, I’ve corrected myself on the fly. Something like:
“I want 2, no, 3 scoops of ice cream.”
Mac’s built-in dictation would write that literally:
“I want 2, no, 3 scoops of ice cream.”
But Wispr Flow infers your intent and writes what you actually want:
“I want 3 scoops of ice cream.”
This may seem small, but when you’re prompting a long Chat in Chat GPT, or a whole passage for a blog, or a long delegation into a GDoc, fixing a dozen of these can be tedious.
Learns Your Unique Spellings
A surprising number of names have multiple spellings.
Think: Jon/John, Lesley/Leslie, Sarah/Sara. Wispr Flow learns your preferred version.
In my company, we use lots of acronyms.
BAGL: Be a Great Leader. GA: Great Assistant. ENT: Entrepreneur. These would chronically get misspelled by other voice dictation tools. Wispr Flow learned quickly.
I’m currently studying ancient Indian philosophy, including The Bhagavad-Gītā. Quickly, Wispr Flow is picking up the ethnic words, so I don’t have to correct them manually anymore.
Wispr Flow catches all of this and continuously updates itself so it’s dynamically getting better, faster, more accurate for you. AMAZING.
Has Transcription History
On a long dictation, it’s common for me to click between windows as I’m speaking.
I end the dictation, but the cursor is in the wrong window and so the whole transcription gets lost.
Let’s say I want to delegate travel planning. I’m in Chat GPT and using my Mac’s voice dictation.
As I verbally describe how I want my travel booked, I’m clicking between a Google Doc, Google Flights, and my calendar.
I end my dictation with Google Flights (accidentally) selected as the active window, with no cursor position set.
So the resulting “paste” goes nowhere. Five minutes of dictation gone forever and I have to start over.
But not with Wispr Flow.
You can easily pull up your dictation history, copy, and paste it into your GDoc (or wherever).
This sounds small, but MAN it has saved my backside so many times.
It’s shocking how many productivity losses are from “death by a thousand paper cuts.”
A minute here, a minute there adds up to hours very quickly.
Wispr Flow is truly magical in it’s ability to save you thousands of these little time losses.
I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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Build a Business That Runs Itself (workshop)
Exhausted by getting crushed by the minutiae of your business? Wish you could be freed-up to focus on the big things? You’ll get a clear roadmap on how to replace yourself from the lower levels of your business.
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Nov 16
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The Deepest Shame I’ve Ever Felt
14 years ago, I lost everything.
Houses, money, investors, business, everything.
Then I developed a stress-related illness called Erythema Nodosum.
I couldn’t walk for many months.
I also couldn’t work.
Had my Mom not paid my mortgage for me for three months, I would have gone double-bankrupt.
I was over $325K in debt (in today’s dollars) with no way to pay any of it back. I had some of the darkest thoughts of my life.
After 2 months trapped in my body, I had a moment that would change my life forever: I met God.
I started to heal.
The next month, I started walking again.
The month after that, I re-started as an Entrepreneur.
Within 7 months I’d replaced my income.
Within 7 years, I paid all of the debt off.
That’s the short version. Here’s the longer version if you want all the gory details (pics included).
14 Years of Poison
The shame I experienced in 2011 was more profound than I ever imagined possible.
I was so proud of everything I’d built.
When it was all ripped away, all I wanted to do was disappear so no one would ever see me again.
I was such a failure. I’d lost everything, and everyone around me knew it.
Although the illness lasted only 3 months, and the debt lasted only 7 years, little did I know the sinister emotional wound would persist.
Earlier this year, in 2025, a full 14 years after my epic failure, I started to realize how much this traumatic event still haunted me.
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
Healing at the Deepest Levels
Earlier this year, I had the sublime, life-changing opportunity to study with Dr. David Wolf and participate in his Satvatove programs: The Foundational Seminar, The Advanced Seminar, and Satvatove 3.
Dr. Wolf is one of the most fascinating East-meets-West humans I’ve ever met. He’s got a Ph.D. in counselling psychology. He’s also a master scholar of the Bhagavad-Gītā, one of the core, ancient spiritual texts from India.
He grew up Jewish in Pennsylvania, but he’s also lived in ashrams overseas.
When he teaches, he alternates between quoting The Christian Bible, The Hebrew Bible, Greek Philosophers, Vedic wisdom from India, modern self-help books, and - for good measure - 1980s pop songs.
Over the last 25 years, he’s presented his Satvatove programs in dozens of countries around the world, spanning from the USA to India, Russia, Wales, Switzerland, Canada, and others.
With Dr. David Wolf, Oct 2025
The only downside to his workshops are they’re a bit tricky to describe.
They’re experiential, a series of exercises, not a lecture.
There’s usually between 20-40 attendees, usually 90% from the host country and 10% flying in from around the world.
The workshops are a mix of elevating communication skills, deepening self-awareness, and locating what matters most to each of us.
Through these workshops, I’ve realized just how afraid I’ve been to lose it all again.
Most recent Satvatove seminar room.
What the Fear of Success Looks Like
But isn’t lofty success what we all want?
I thought so.
Then I lost everything 14 years ago and paid an extremely painful price.
My head and heart subconsciously and emphatically decided, “NEVER AGAIN.”
Ever since, they’ve colluded to keep me small enough and close enough to the ground that it wouldn’t hurt too badly if I lost it all again.
Yes, I’ve had some success, but not too much. Lots of 3 steps forward, 2 steps back. Sometimes, even, 3 steps forward and just as many steps back.
I see clearly, now, how I’ve actively blocked myself over and over again:
I have a 40,000-word book I’ve never published.
I have two businesses with the highest client satisfaction possible, yet I do so little to promote them. They stay small.
I have a hard drive full of great content I’ve shot, but never had edited or published.
I have a healthy list of professional accomplishments I’ve told almost no one about.
I have an incredible network of professional contacts I rarely ask for anything.
I feel remorseful and regretful to report that this has shown up in my romantic life too.
I’ve pushed many incredible women away. I haven’t wanted to love too open-heartedly for fear I’d disappoint them and lose them too.
Healing
As I quoted above, step one was becoming aware of what was driving me subconsciously.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Dr. Wolf’s workshops, especially the more advanced programs, were the catalyst that freed me from so much pain and shame.
It was at Satvatove 3, just nine days ago (on Oct 11th, 2025, to be exact), that I finally touched the bottom of the pool on my fear to lose it all again.
Once I tapped that vein, 14 years of pain and regret, all metastasizing and accruing compound interest deep in my heart, came pouring out.
After it came out, I experienced something I hadn’t experienced in a very long time:
Peace.
My inner world was just… quiet.
What now?
Shame Can’t Exist in the Dark
Shame is a powerful, life-destroying force.
But it can only exist in shadows.
Our Secrets Keep Us Sick
So, for the last 9 days, I’ve been telling my inner circle just how terrified I’ve been, for 14 years, to lose it all again.
I don’t need them to give me advice.
I don’t need them to reassure me or comfort me.
I don’t need them to cheer me on.
All I need is to be witnessed.
The more I’ve been shining light on it, the more freedom I’m experiencing.
And now I’m sharing with you, too.
Yes, this is a real pic of me. No A.I. or Photoshop. Just an iPhone and stunning Texas hill country.
Looking Ahead
Honestly, I’m still getting back on my feet.
Such catharsis, 9 days ago, left me feeling somewhat shell-shocked, like I’m floating in a twilight zone.
But clearing the slate, per se, gives me a new foundation to build from.
I have a profound sense that Oct 11th, 2025, was a landmark, watershed day for me.
It’s the day I unlocked a whole new level, the day I unshackled years of deadweight from my ankles.
I can’t wait to see where I am on Oct 11th of next year.
And the year after that.
And the year after that.
I hope my story can offer inspiration to help you find where shame exists for you, so you can shine a light on it and get free too.
Thank you for witnessing me,
