How I Built Community With A PowerPoint

Repeat after me: I don't chase, I attract ✨

At the beginning of this year, a friend inspired me to create a Canva PowerPoint with my upcoming goals. Think of it like a vision board—but organized, intentional, and easy to flip through.

I even asked ChatGPT to help me break my goals into categories so I could really drive the message home (for no one but myself). Here are the categories I included:

Would you believe that I’ve already achieved most of those goals including finishing my book and publishing it on Amazon, finding a permanent home base and mastering Spanish…and the year isn’t even over yet? The only one I haven’t technically hit is my monthly income goal. But when I factor in the work/trade deals I’ve arranged—like massages in exchange for branding help, or retreat and co-working memberships in exchange for website support—I’ve likely hit it after all.

So why am I sharing this?

Because the world feels insufferable right now. Genocide, mass shootings, sex trafficking, censorship—the news is heavy with despair.

And yet, there is still joy to be found.
Goals to be set.
Emotions to be felt.
Loved ones to hug.
Laughter to echo.
Waves to ride.
Communities to build.

And when we focus on what we can control and on the joy we can create, something magic happens…we begin attracting the world we want to live in.

Co-creating Community

One of the goals I longed for most this year was community, but not just any community. In my presentation I wrote that I specifically wanted:

• Deep, meaningful conversations with kind, earthy, positive people who believe in the law of attraction and manifesting.

• Intimate conversations and connections with "nature child" archetypes.

• A localized community of kind misfits who uplift and collaborate to improve the community. Who are present and move with intention.

I’d experienced it briefly in Berlin, but Berlin is transient—a city full of misfits shedding old identities, finding new ones, and often disappearing just as quickly. Friends cycled in and out, carried away by mental health struggles, partying, finances, or just the general darkness of the city itself. It was hard to build anything stable there, so after a decade I finally set out in search of something more aligned.

For a while I adopted the lone wolf, wanderer identity. Van life suited that well. And while it was amazing to wake up perched seaside on a Portuguese cliff, it was also deeply lonely. Still, I knew deep down that being alone was better than staying in an environment that didn’t fit. Because being barefoot is better than wearing tight shoes, you feel me?

I even contemplated moving back to Arizona, a place that had always felt like home no matter how long I’d been away. But after spending a few months there this past winter, I realized it didn’t quite fit either. So I kept searching. Following my curiosities. That’s how I ended up in Nicaragua.

Though I knew I immediately loved the lifestyle—and the fact that I could walk anywhere barefoot, even into the grocery store, and no one bats an eye—I still craved community. So imagine my delight when I saw a woman post in a local women’s-only WhatsApp group, asking who’d be interested in starting a weekly women’s circle. Before long, we had organized a meetup at my house every Tuesday.

At our first gathering, we discovered something uncanny: four of the six women (myself included) had lived in Berlin around the same time, in adjacent neighborhoods—yet had never crossed paths. It felt as though we were meant to meet here, now, together. On top of that, we’re all around the same age, share similar values (and hobbies—surfing), and none of us drink or party anymore.

During our check-in last week, I told the group I felt a deep sense of belonging—like I was being energetically held by them throughout the week. Honestly, it feels like this circle is changing me on a cellular level.

That feeling is especially sweet because I hadn’t felt it in so long (or maybe ever). I now know I was able to attract this supportive circle because, for the first time in a long time, I felt steady and stable in my heart, body, and mind.

If you take away anything from this post, I hope you take away these two things:

1. You have more power than you think.
You can absolutely build the life of your dreams—but first, you have to define your values.

👉 Need help defining your values? Watch this video.

2. What you want is looking for you. Don’t settle.
Sometimes it travels across oceans and years, weaving through Berlin streets and surf towns, until it finally lands at your doorstep on a Tuesday night.

We are not meant to do life alone. Belonging is not a luxury, it’s a birthright. And when you begin to live in alignment with your values, life has a way of introducing you to the people and places that reflect who you’ve become.

But don’t settle for mediocre when what you really want is magic.

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