Yesterday I did my first Substack Live with Nicola Bird, and I absolutely loved it. She’s a wonderful human being, and my heart was singing all the way through.
Thank you again, Nicola.
And thank you to those who joined us live. It was a last-minute, spur-of-the-moment kind of thing and we didn’t promote it, but there were 18 of you there by the end, and it was lovely to have you with us.
The internet connection lagged here and there, but if you tune into the spirit of the conversation, you will hear how much love, enthusiasm and lit-upness was there.
Nicola is an artist, a writer, a Hay House published author, and a serial entrepreneur who has created a successful tech company, a coaching company, and an e-commerce company.
I’ve been following her work for 5 years, and I find her story and mindset deeply inspiring - her willingness to follow her truth, heart and intuition, and her capacity to create businesses and generate income in alignment with that.
Here’s some of what we covered:
- Why Nicola is in a phase of deep “integration”, a the word guiding this chapter of her life - weaving together everything she’s learned into something only she can create.
- The “breath of God”: her beautiful definition of inspiration as being breathed into, and how she has more respect for that than most people do.
- Following enthusiasm even when it makes no logical sense - and the story of how an inconvenient insight became, step by step, The Floral Project (where she and her community sow, grow and give flowers).
- The core frequency & audience: how honouring your own lit-upness draws the “right” people to you, and why a core group has followed her across wildly different businesses since 2007.
- Reaching seven figures and feeling absolutely nothing - the wake-up call, the burnout, and the 20 years of anxiety behind the success.
- How she found Jamie Smart’s book Clarity, became Michael Neill’s apprentice, and watched her anxiety and panic vanish.
- Her framework for how it all fits together right now: the one Truth, the Three Principles, the female experience, and Human Design as a treasure map.
- Why she’d rather commune with that nameless, formless energy than get better answers out of ChatGPT - and how outsourcing our wisdom, decision-making and discernment weakens the very muscles that make us human.
And here are the resources mentioned:
Nicola:
Clarity by Jamie Smart - book that started her journey into the Three Principles.
Michael Neill - coach and author; Nicola trained as his apprentice.
The Three Principles - the understanding articulated by Sydney Banks.
Human Design - a self-discovery framework that maps your unique energetic blueprint.
Dario:
Chip Chipman - coined the magic carpet metaphor.
Bill Plotkin - on soul initiation and vocation.
I’m looking forward to the next episode. If you’ve enjoyed this, please like & subscribe and leave a comment below - it really does help.
Until next time,
Much love,
Dario
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If you’d like to explore these themes more deeply, you can find out more about me and my work at dariomartinis.com.
