Navigating Uncertainty
What should I do – I feel stuck and the job market sucks!
I feel like time is running out and I’m panicking.
Where’s the path to success that won’t make me lose my shit along the way?
These are REAL questions from my coaching container in the past week. And these folks are not alone - these questions are familiar to me and maybe to you too.
Perhaps the reason so many people are struggling to get by is because we were never meant to.
The white picket fence mentality makes sense if you’re trying to squeeze out the highest quantity of consumers in a capitalistic society. But it doesn’t really work in any other context. Childcare, aging parents, sick leave, community, landfill waste, food systems, my god we could go on and on.
We need one another but we’ve convinced ourselves we don’t. So we pay for community. We pay for childcare, we pay for “networking,” we pay for connections and clubs and access. We pay for it tenfold in loneliness and art not made.
We’re disconnected from ourselves and one another.
We’ve gotten a lot of things wrong. Not because WE are wrong, but because we’re following out dated, extractive patterns that don’t work and really never did. We have forgotten how to navigate in a world that constantly changes.
We fear change. We fear fear itself. We have forgotten that our bodies are brilliant navigation systems. We’ve been taught to fear that wisdom because it keeps us confused, small, easy to manipulate and distracted.
Alongside my 4-year-old nephew, I’m low-key obsessed with the Disney animated films, Moana 1 & 2 (although, for now, he is the one who sleeps with his Maui fish hook). My interest isn’t only entertainment, but because it honors the magic of ancient Polynesian Wayfinders. It’s not just an animated tale— it’s science rooted in real, ancestral legacy.
These brilliant, real life navigators crossed vast oceans IN TINY ASS OUTRIGGER CANOES without maps, compasses or modern technologies. They were literally guided by stars, swells, birds, and deep intuition. In a canoe. Across oceans and storms and potentially life-altering uncertainties.
Wayfinders are a people who chart paths through the unknown — not by following static systems, but by principles that allow them to read the moment, trust their inner compass, and sense what’s just beyond the visible. They didn’t just explore; they read water currents, instincts, and meaning all around them.
And holy shit are we in the unknown. (if I hear unprecedented one more time)
So what do we do about it?!
How do we go about making a difference, feeling financial free, living in true community and getting unstuck? Well, we…
rewild the parts of ourselves that we have deserted over time and
find new ways to move forward that we haven’t seen modeled yet
We have to be willing to let go of old ways of being, old expectations, outdated cultural norms (like success). We have to be willing to dig deep into our own ability to be PRESENT so we can read the signs of the environment accurately. To rewild, we have to admit where we got it wrong.
We have to weave together the ancient wisdom we (intentionally through colonization) left behind + the new ways of interacting with modern uncertainties.
Wayfinders lead with self trust, they move before the path is 100% clear, and they find a way where others see waves.
They navigate uncertainty with curiosity, courage, and a deep respect for the unfolding process. We’ll never get to our desired destination the old way (fearing this wisdom). We will only get there by being (even somewhat) comfortable in uncharted waters.
In this rapidly changing world, this is the skill that taps into our happiness, abundance & survival - it always has been.
I’ll never be the coach who tells you what to do. I’m the coach who teaches you to read the signs.
If this frequency stirs something in you—come closer & stay tuned.
