Listening to the Whisper of Color

How a Simple Quiz and a Moment of Surrender Rewired My Soul’s Compass

When Helen Ye Plehn asked me on air, “If you already had a billion dollars in your bank account, healthy and happy, what would you still wake up and do?” I felt my pulse quicken. I could almost hear my own heartbeat in her question. For years I chased every metric of success—downloads, downloads per day, sponsorships, guest bookings—believing those were the things that would make me feel fulfilled. But in that moment I realized something profound. I had drifted so far from what I truly loved that I could no longer distinguish the hum of my soul from the roar of my ambition. I started to ask myself what really mattered, what still made me feel alive, and why I was clutching at the future so tightly that I’d let my present slip through my fingers.

I’ve spent a lifetime guiding others toward their purpose, yet I’d never paused to ask myself what my own aura was trying to tell me. Helen’s Aura Color Wheel quiz revealed my soul’s predominant color, a vibrant shade of indigo that spoke of deep listening and intuitive wisdom. It was dizzying to see my hidden gifts laid bare, but also healing. I realized my greatest strengths had been quietly waiting for me to reclaim them. I folded the quiz results into my notebook, certain that the real work was only just beginning. And then I discovered a wound color in my chart, an echo of old perfectionism and self‑doubt that had followed me from my Navy days into every boardroom I ever entered. I scrawled in the margin, “Here lies my next mountain to climb.”—and that’s when everything shifted.

What happened when I finally confronted that wound, and how did it change the way I show up in every conversation, every strategy session, and even in my own daily routine?

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