INTENT: The Second Pillar of VITL✨

I can still recall the feeling of securing and double checking the minuscule lock on my glittery pink ballet shoe diary at six years old. Something in my spirit must have known that it would be a powerful tool on my journey. Over time, the journals became a little more sophisticated, (although I still love a little sparkle ✨) and I stopped deluding myself that my security measures were effective. The containers changed form, but the essence remained.

Fast forward to 2008. A series of events and angels on Earth brought me to Venice Beach, California. I was riding a chairlift in Aspen, CO with a fellow CU Buff who I’d befriended while working production for X-Games. I proclaimed aloud that I was ready to trade my snowboard for a surfboard and take the top down on my little Jeep again. It just so happened that I spoke my wish to the exact right person. He had a space available for me in Venice Beach. Come anytime he said. He had been ushered in to life in California through a generous gesture as well, and felt compelled to pay it forward. He knew that it was where I was meant to be, even before I did.

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