The Inside Track on Being an Initiator

Most people don’t really understand what it’s like to be an Initiator.

And to be fair, why would they? The world isn’t designed for us. It’s built around consistency, momentum, output, and repeatability — all things that work brilliantly for Builders, but can quietly exhaust an Initiator.

Builders have the energy to respond and create consistently, when it’s a yes. They’re designed to use their energy each day. By bedtime, they should feel spent — in a satisfying, healthy way.

Initiators don’t work like that at all.

For me, as an Initiator, creative urges are about bringing new things into the world.

They don’t arrive on a schedule. They’re often sporadic. When one lands and it’s a yes, it comes with a lot of energy. I move fast, initiate fully, usually create something quite full on… and then I need to rest. Properly rest, not just a Netflix session type of rest.

That creative rhythm isn’t how I work with clients, though.

Client work is different. It’s contained, intentional, and focused. I still initiate them though, like their own personal Catalytic Converter! When someone comes to me, the work doesn’t rely on ongoing sessions or momentum over time. Most of the time, one session is enough to see what’s really going on and clear the issue that brought them to me.

That often surprises people — especially in a world that’s used to packages, programmes, and a set number of sessions. But depth doesn’t come from duration. It comes from presence. And because I’m not trying to sustain output over weeks or months, the work itself stays clean.

This is where the misunderstanding usually starts.

A Builder might work with many clients in a single day and feel fine. For many Initiators, a couple of deep, focused conversations can be more than enough. And yet we’re conditioned to believe that if we can’t sustain the same pace as everyone else, something must be wrong with us.

I believed that for years.

I tried to plan like a Builder. I tried to be consistent in ways that went against my natural rhythm. And slowly, quietly, that belief took root — that I was unreliable, too changeable, too intense, not steady enough.

This year, I stopped doing that.

And it was massive.

I stopped looking outward for permission, structure, and reassurance — and started looking inward for my cues. All of them.

I still hold an embodied vision for my business.That hasn’t gone anywhere. However, what has changed is how I move towards it. I no longer plan in the traditional sense. I keep a short, immediate to-do list and review it when I remember. The real question I ask myself each day is simple:

What’s for me to do today?

Sometimes the answer is exactly what I expected.
Sometimes it’s completely left field.

And I follow it.

This shift has changed everything for me. Not just how I work, but how I feel about myself. I actually love being me. I love my very different personal operating system.

Next year is about moving even more deeply into alignment with my design.

That means I’m looking at networking very differently. At how people get access to my energy. And how they pay for that energy. Because Initiator energy isn’t meant to be spread thin. It’s meant to be precise, intentional, and impactful.

At the start of January, I’m taking on a new office for my private alignment sessions - for those who choose to meet me in person. It’s not really an office if I’m honest. It feels more like my inner sanctum. A calm, contained space for proper conversations — the kind where things actually shift.

Alongside that, I’m building more self-service BG5 resources. Less demand on my energy. More ease. More choice for the people I work with.

I was never broken.
I was never inconsistent.
I was never doing it wrong.

I was just designed differently.

There’s a different kind of ease that comes from understanding your own energy design.

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