Thank you for taking the time to read about my little soap company. This soap company is really the beginning to something so much bigger than soap. I was a personal trainer for over fourteen years, and due to some life situations I stopped training, and started focusing on how I could truly help people. I had an amazing person come into my life, and introduce me to the many forms of somatic therapy. This helped give life to part of me that enjoyed helping so many people, a part I thought I had lost. This company is the beginning to something far bigger than soap, but it will always be part of it. I have so many goals and soap is just a piece of something even bigger.
My old website StrangeResonance.com was a website I built for myself for the books I have published, and a podcast I kept trying to get off the ground, but its more than that. I want to build a wellness center, and a sense of community with what I am seeking to create in life. With all this being said I want to say thank you. For each bar of soap you buy, for each book of mine you read, for each like on my social media, for each second you have taken to read this. You have helped breathe a little more life into this process of creation. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
My Wellness Products
In 2012 I found myself finishing my enlistment in the military lacking direction. I had my nutritionist certification, and a few years of personal training under my belt. I would end up wanting a change of pace, and found myself moving to Oregon. I would end up working for a mainstream big box gym in Oregon keeping my passion for fitness alive. During my stay in Oregon I would start looking for a side hustle to help pay off school bills, and ended up finding myself making bar soap. Over the next few years I would make every mistake you could think of. I didn’t get discouraged, and tried to think of Thomas Edison discovering one hundred ways of how not to make a light bulb.
Fast forwarding a bit I would return to making bar soap, and much more. Now I had years of experience under my belt, and a new passion to help people. Bar soap would only be the beginning as I worked on developing products that did more than make you smell good, and feel clean. I would start working on making products to help people relax, recover, and release stress. I wont delve into that to much here, but you can CLICK HERE, and see more on my products page.
Writing Books
As an author I seek to use my stories to bring about a sense of knowing into gnosis for my readers. Because of this, my stories tend to be dark in nature, but we tend to learn life’s greatest lessons in times of hardship. I hope my stories offer this process of knowing to gnosis without going through the pain of such hardships, or at lest help mitigate it. My books are still very indie in nature, and I hope to change that someday soon. Writing is such a powerful thing. I encourage others to write, or even just journal. Writing can be therapeutic, helping promote healing, the release of emotions, and allowing us a space to work in that is safe.
Building a Life Center
We all feel the call of tribe in one way or another. I want to be able to help answer that call, and hold space for it. To help people connect with each other, and make connections that can change their lives. To help groups of people / tribes connect with other groups, and build up a community that appreciates life and respects that we all have the power of choice that we have a right to use it according to our own personal beliefs. Ultimately to build a place where you can be you according to your own truths, and find others that resonate with you.
Building Communities
Building communities both in person and online is the pinnacle of my goals. I want to build a communities in such a way, that some values from my other works in life echo in what I do. I’ll do this by building a as green as possible living situation that provides things like a park and other areas for people and their families to live and enjoy life together. Thats right, no cult or secret compounds, just safe living communities that don’t cost you a limb to live in.
When it comes to online communities, I’m not talking about social media. I personally think it would do us all good to not spend as much time online and more time in person within the communities we support. Within such local communities people own businesses, and have amazing things to share as well. We should support or local businesses and those within our communities, because when our communities do well as a whole, it strengthens us all. I also want to be able to share and support other leaders of thoguht who are spreading a similar message. I get asked ‘why would you support someone else trying to do something similar to what you're doing’? It’s simple, the way I go about achieving unity and community may not resonate with some people because of how I share my message, but if someone else sharing a similar message resonates with them. I want them to go towards that, that calls to them, because if they find what they are looking for, that community wins, and no one loses in my eyes.
After all this is said and done. I will still find myself looking up and the stars asking myself, what is the next experience after all this? I will smile and remain strong in all that I do because I can’t wait to see what will unfold next in life.
My overall goal is to build a culture to help make the world a better place for everyone. To break down walls of segregation, and stand united as human beings. To show respect, and take responsibility with our actions. I know this sounds great, and that many people before me have used well thought out flowery words to invoke inspiration, but what am I doing that is so different? I am not doing anything new, and my message is an old message of love for humanity. I have my ideas of how to continue bringing people together, and I hope that some of what I have to say resonates with you, if not thats ok as well. One of the great things about life is there are many pathways to the same place, and we all get to choose where we are going. Let me share with you my idea of what some of those paths might look like with all I do.