Move Through Disruptions Without Losing Flow

I never thought I’d say, “I lived through a cyclone.” But here we are.

Cyclone Alfred made its way through, slowing down before it reached us, but still leaving its mark. No power. No Wi-Fi. Business put on pause. Right in the middle of launching high-ticket offers, everything stalled.

Disruptions like this force a decision. Push through and try to make things happen, or step back and let a new rhythm unfold.

In this episode, I’m sharing what went down, how I handled the unexpected, and why sometimes the best move is to stop resisting and trust the flow. 

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Transcript

 Oh my goodness. There is a small miracle that we are here recording this episode, and it depends. We may or may not be a day late, so if we are a day late, you'll understand why I'm recording this. On Tuesday, the 11th of March, we've literally just got  electricity, wifi.  Things back in order after having lived through Cyclone Alfred.

Now, as dramatic as that sounds, we didn't actually get the full full effects of the cyclone, which I'm very, very grateful for. But I do want to just say that everyone that has gone through it in the southeast coast of Australia, like wow. I don't even know. I know that there's some parts of the world, the US comes to mind where tornadoes happen, been very often, twisters, et cetera. 

And I don't know how normal it gets to feel, but that was intense. It was intense. I'm, I am still somewhat on edge. I'm not sure if you can hear it in my voice, but I just do not feel like right now I have the bandwidth for anything else but just to chill and calm down. And do you remember if you were listening in on last week's episode, I made this proclamation to the world that it would.

Be a much more, less chaotic time for me because I'm settling in finally and I'm over the drama of our storage unit being robbed and all the things, and how I finally feel like I'm back in motion. Yeah, let's just say, uh,  I couldn't have been more wrong. Because shortly after recording that last podcast, we began receiving a lot of escalating warnings from, you know, the Gold Coast Council and just, you know, to lots of people in the community talking about this incoming cyclone.

Actually, Teddy had a surfing lesson, not last week, the week before. The surf coach goes, oh guys, I don't know if we're gonna have a lesson next week. There's a cyclone incoming. We're trying to do his, his accent the best I can. And uh, we're like, what's cyclone? He goes, haven't you heard there's like a massive cyclone that's gonna hit us and we're gonna receive most of the landfall?

So there's just nuts. Like it was, you know, 10 days out and he was obviously keeping close eye on the weather.  Oh, but cyclones haven't struck the Gold Coast in. I think over 50 years. So no one here really knew what to expect. Like there's obviously a lot of.  Gold Coast, uh, locals and those that have been here forever.

But the nature of this city, the city I live in is a lot of people have come in and from elsewhere, other parts of Australia, definitely uk, us and they've settled here because it's such a beautiful part of the world. There's not a lot of people who are like born and bred and brought up here on the Gold Coast.

So  when the cyclone hit, it was a little bit. Hilarious. Like watching how everybody was dealing with it. Like we also have a very, very big Brazilian community here, especially near where I live, and I have a lot of Brazilian friends and cafe owners of things, and they were just so chill with it. Like the day before I ran into a friend of mine who's Brazilian, he's like, oh, I'm just a trying to get some chocolate.

You know, just. Chill for the cyclone and then like the next day he's like, oh my God, I need to buy water and there's no water. You know, just like not quite knowing what to exactly do, but Oh, I was really full on like the winds as a bit of a marker for some of you guys went up to 165 kilometers per hour, which is about 105 miles per hour.

I think. So intense. Like luckily for us though, we didn't get the brutality of. The flooding and the winds, um, the winds sort of died off and the flooding hit another part of Queensland, which I just feel so much for. Brisbane and the Brisbane areas where it was mostly where most of the destruction was. I have quite a few friends and some clients who are literally like.

Their house is, you know, halfway underwater, devastating. So like really my heart goes out to you guys. I know you're probably not even listening to this because you're just trying to get the house back together. Ooh, intense. And don't you reckon like so much stuff like this has already happened in 2025.

Obviously I. LA fires and just government switches in the US and so many things going on always in the Middle East. All the wars like just sometimes like, oh, it can just get so intense. Like if you let yourself think about all the things that's gone wrong. And I have to admit, like I sat there one night because we lost power on Thursday night.

That's when it really hit us the worst. And what do you do? You sit there in the dark with the candles and there's nothing else. There's no wifi, there's no internet, there's no devices. There's only so many board games you can play, and you know, things like that. We're just staring outside, just going, whoa, like can this be it?

Please, for the rest of 2025, can this be the worst of it? Anyhow, we're very grateful because we got power back yesterday.  And in the grand scheme of things, that's not that long. You know, especially considering a lot of people are still without power and basic necessities. But I just wanna say every single person that reached out on Instagram, I know a huge portion of you guys are on Insta.

And then another portion of you are on LinkedIn. The podcast is kind of the place where everyone comes together, which is so lovely, but especially my IG people. Thank you so much. Like guys, I cannot tell you. How many people reached out? Like those of you that I've never even met in person before, but we are locals, uh, said, come to my house.

You know, for those of you that had power, you'll like come and charge your phones and, you know, come have a shower or wash your clothings. Your whole family is, is welcome. Some of you had spare food, like tin food and all that. Like, you know, honestly, the power of community is everything in a local area, but the power of community on social media, like it's just the very, very. 

Least thing I would've expected in many ways, and I'm just so.  You know, grateful. I can't even get the words out. Like, thank you for every single person that offered, you know, help in some way. Some of you were offering gas bottles for the barbecue because they were so hard to find. Some of you said that you had spare ice to keep the meats cold.

Like everything, everything that you guys have reached out, I am so thankful. I feel incredibly grateful and also incredibly grateful that we're just able to get back online really quickly. But whoa, like talk about disruption. This experience has really got me thinking about how we respond to moments of upheaval. 

What it means to move through disruptive times and rather than reacting to it with panic and the need to make up for lost time, what do we do instead? So this might not be a natural disaster situation for you guys, and I really would never hope it is.  Let's just talk about disruption because it is so closely related to flow state and I have had, now that my, you know, everything's back, my calls are back on.

I had a great call with a couple of clients today, but one in particular with Tina and we were talking about this, like how we get back on track. Given that it feels like we've lost time, so, you know, this is something that I wanna share with my podcast community and all of you, our natural response to losing time is to replace it.

And in our minds, like the way our brain processes it is we need to replace it hour by hour. So if we've lost an hour, we need to get another hour somewhere in our day in order to feel like we're back on track. We think, okay, if I've lost X number of work hours, I need to cram that many extra hours somewhere else.

And that's where most people get really overwhelmed. It becomes this huge epic game of catch up and energetically that never actually works unless you truly have somehow an ability to clear so much time and you can give your kids away to friends and family for hours and hours. You can get that back and you are working through the night.

Even that doesn't sound like a vibe when your nervous system is maybe just not as. Calm as it would be. Definitely not in this situation. So many things are going on in your checklist. Treadmill decision fatigue is likely an overload right now, like for me, because the amount of decisions we had to make over the last couple of days.

Was so overwhelming, and me and my husband are an amazing partnership. He took half of it. I took half of it. Plus we had Teddy who was definitely afraid and scared, but also bored out of his mind, like a 9-year-old kid without any devices and without any external things and no friends, and it being completely dark was such a new thing for him as well.

So whatever that is, I just want you to know and ask yourself this question even what if time doesn't work? In a way where you need to replace it and what if you understood how to flow so that you get to collapse the time? Because what I know to be true, especially for me having mastered and mastering flow state, is when you step into this state, things don't unfold in a linear way.

What normally takes a week, it can happen in a single inspired. Afternoon, and it might not even be the whole afternoon. It might just be like an hour or two. What feels like a really, really impossible backlog of tasks and things that you're checking off and all the things can clear in a day when you are aligned and you are moving with the right attitude and with the right energy.

Like yesterday was a bit of a annoying day. Like everything we tried to do to get things going, wasn't going. We were getting a lot of nos, a lot of closed doors. Like to make things worse, we ran over a nail. Like of course there's gonna be stuff on the freeway and stuff, you know, so we ran over a nail, our tire started deflating.

Nobody would take us like, you know, the guy at the tire shop was like, listen, like you and 30,000 other people need a new tire today. I'm like, what? Like I was getting so frustrated and both Michael and I with such negative energy that nothing was getting done because we weren't in alignment and we weren't moving with the right energy.

So we switched it, you know, we're like, okay, that's it. Today happened to have been a day of closed doors. Let's reset the tire's gonna be fine for now. The nail was still in it, thank goodness. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna reset and tomorrow's gonna be a yes day. So it has been a yesterday. I'm very happy about that.

There's a guy coming to our house to fix our tire, like so nice like home service where we don't even need to go anywhere. Operating this way involves timeline work. Now there's timeline work. If any of you have studied NLP or if you've ever had NLP treatment, this is beautiful. You can collapse timelines.

You can literally imagine where you wanna be and you can tell yourself to be there Now. Be there now. So it's not about putting in more hours. It's about this level of momentum and this deep trust in the current state and allowing that current state to bend for you rather than feeling like you have to fight against it.

So if you are in a moment right now where things are feeling a little disheveled and or just hopeless, or you are just feeling out of time, out of energy, all the things. I just want you to ask yourself in this moment and list it out. You know, where things just aren't going my way for whatever reason, this, this, and this, and this.

Just keep piling on top. How can I use this to bend it towards my favor? Show me. Help me be there now, be there. Now I take myself to a place where there is a solution. Now I choose to not fight against it anymore because that's not working. I felt this really deeply during the cyclone, like we went into full survival mode.

We filled up the bathtub in case we lost water, or water got contaminated. We were like ensuring that we had all the food, non-perishable, of course, batteries, gathering candles, doing all the things you do when you have no idea how long you'll be offline or without power. But beyond the physical preparation, there was this deep surrender to the unknown.

I was describing it on Instagram stories about how like, yeah, it's really fun when you plan to be offline and off the grid and you are off the grid for four days camping or a week or whatever. But when you don't know when things are gonna return to normal, there is a huge need for surrender because if you're trying to control that situation, if you're trying to say. 

We have to be back online tomorrow. We have to have internet tomorrow. What's gonna happen to my business? How am I gonna post on Instagram? How am I gonna get power to get the wifi back on and power back on my phone? Like, honestly, not knowing when we'd be back online was going to be a fighting game. And the disruption around it in even in, in your mind, that's a fighting game.

I didn't know what impact this would have on the business, by the way, on the plans, on the things, and by the way, like I'm literally right in the middle of a high ticket launch. I'm launching in a circle right now, and it's just crazy to just not be online for five days when you're launching high ticket because you know there's big questions to be answered.

So I came back online and I was like, truly, like I saw there were like three tickets. Specifically asking me deep questions about inner a circle that wasn't answered for five days and my heart just sank. But I'm like, do you know what surrender they're gonna understand? They're gonna get it. And they all did.

They were all very amazing. And you know, I had two clients say yes, and I didn't even know it was sitting there. Like I couldn't get contracts out and payment links out that was just like, yes, I'm in. Like, what's next? And then obviously they could see on my stories what was happening. So weird. But at the same time, you know, in that surrender, whenever we got these like pockets of.

Reception back, you know, the cell reception, the mobile reception would come back on. It was really quite the vibe. We would just see these like stripe notifications. It'd be like, ding, ding, ding. We're like, oh my gosh, we're back online and oh my gosh, things have been coming through. But that was, I have to share that.

'cause that was really cool. Like since November we've switched to a hybrid passive model and active models. So passive courses and master classes and all that are constantly working for us behind the scenes. So that's just been so lovely. And then, you know, seeing all the questions and the yeses for inner circle in the high ticket stuff is just amazing as well.

All whilst we're just trying to keep, you know, the household together. So what I'm trying to say is, instead of thinking, how am I gonna catch up on all of these lost hours, these lost hours catch up with you? Like I was constantly reminded like Rubes, like you're supported, sales are coming in, clients are happy to wait.

Clients know that this is going on, your social media is not gonna suffer because of it. You know, like that kind of scary algorithm game that we're told to play. Like, if you don't post consistently every day, how are you gonna get rewarded? I must admit, like a lot of those things came up in my mind, like I've been on such a role.

Like why does that have to happen now? Such first world problems. I understand, but. I shifted instead into how can I move forward from exactly where I am with full trust? That time will bend in my favor because you are a powerful, powerful creator. Listen to me. You are a powerful creator and you can bend time, you can have it work to your favor, and you've just got to release the control that you think is going to actually do you good when it's not.

The moment, the moment everything returns back to normal, which it will, and there's times when you just feel like, okay, I've got my pace back. You'll be able to really look back and see that everything was already happening for you at lightning speed. Okay? Things that may have taken days and days, they're moving in hours.

It's a beautiful reminder that when you surrender flow catches you, you don't need to go there with, you know, I kind of picture this butterfly net and you're trying to catch this butterfly and it's just not working. It's not like that. It comes to you and it sits with you and it embraces you. Okay? So take a beautiful deep breath in.

Let time collapse around you.  Don't react instead just. Be with it, you know, in that place of panic, move with intentional presence one step at a time. You know, we had a bit of a list. We're like, all right, so we can't get this and we can't get this like the gas and the ice is out. What can we do next?

Rather than fretting about not having these two major survival items? What other things are we able to do to feel like we're moving forward, moving with intentional presence? And when we stopped grasping at it. Three people on Instagram. As soon as we got reception sent, we've got gas, we've got ice. You know, trust that you're exactly where you're meant to be and everything unfolds so much faster and so much easier.

I'm sending you a lot of good energy regardless of where you're at right now. I love you so much and we are fine. So you know, don't, please don't like worry about us. We're totally set up. We're absolutely fine. We are very blessed. My heart goes out to everybody out there that's going through certain things.

I'm gonna leave some links in the show notes below on how you can donate and how you can help. If this is calling to you, I definitely have done it myself, so I just wanna make sure that everybody out there feels supported energetically as well. Sending a big beam of light out there and you guys like, none of this is going to disrupt the business.

None of this is gonna disrupt the things that you're wanting to achieve in your life. It's here for you. Okay. Big love, and thank you for your support on the podcast. I know it's another short one. Next week's gonna be super, super juicy. We're gonna get stuck into all of the amazing strategies, but in the meantime, follow the flow of what feels good.

Love you so much love.