Ten years ago, I hit what most people would call rock bottom. But to me, it was more than just a financial collapse. It was a full-blown spiritual reckoning.

My business had failed. My savings were gone. Rent was due. And I remember standing in my living room, paralyzed, not just by fear, but by a suffocating sense of failure.

In my deepest moment of desperation, I stopped looking outside of myself for a rescue. Instead, I turned inward. That's when I met a part of me I had never truly known before. A quiet, powerful presence I now call my inner genie.

It whispered a truth that I had forgotten in all my striving: "You are not separate from the power that created the stars. That same force flows through you."

That moment of ruin wasn't my end. It was the beginning of the greatest transformation of my life — from survival to soul, from fear to creation.