006: Connection Is an Act of Resistance
Issue 006 | September 30th, 2025 | In a World That Profits from Your Disconnection, Here's the Revolution
In a world that profits from our disconnection—where algorithms feed on our attention, where success is measured in individual metrics, where we’ve been trained to compartmentalize every aspect of our lives—choosing connection becomes a radical act of resistance.
It’s also, as this month’s contributors reveal, the single most transformative force available to us as Sacred Business owners.
But here’s what nobody tells you about connection: it’s not something you create. It’s something you allow.
This distinction matters because we’ve been approaching connection backwards. We’ve been trying to manufacture it through networking events and LinkedIn strategies, through vulnerability porn dressed up as authenticity, through surface-level interactions that leave us more depleted than before. We’ve been so focused on creating connections that we’ve forgotten how to simply be connected.
The Connection Paradox
The great paradox of our time is that we’re more “connected” than ever—digitally linked, professionally networked, constantly accessible—yet loneliness has reached epidemic proportions. Entrepreneurs report feeling more isolated than ever, despite having thousands of followers and packed calendars. Why? Because we’ve confused contact with connection, proximity with presence, and performance with authenticity.
What emerges from this month’s collection is a profound reframe: connection isn’t a business strategy. It’s not another tool in your marketing toolkit. It’s the fundamental frequency from which all sustainable success flows. When you understand that everything is connected—your wounds to your wisdom, your struggles to your service, your inner work to your outer impact—you stop trying to fix your business and start allowing it to flourish.
The Three Dimensions of Sacred Connection
Through the lens of Sacred Business philosophy, true connection operates on three essential dimensions, each one reflected in this month’s essays:
Connection to Self: This isn’t the narcissistic self-obsession our culture promotes, but rather what
discovers through his month-long exploration—a deep attunement to your own inner knowing, strong enough to hear guidance from unexpected sources, whether that’s a flowering bush or a quantum entanglement with a loved one. It’s the foundation identifies when she notes that presence must come first, that we must be still enough for connection to find us.Connection to Others: But not the performative connection
describes in her fragmented professional life, where we wear different masks for different audiences. True connection to others happens when, as I share in my contribution, we speak from our transformation rather than our wounds, when we show up in our full power rather than our familiar patterns. It’s the recognition that authenticity isn’t about being “real” about your struggles—it’s about being real about who you’re becoming.Connection to the Sacred: This is where connection transcends the personal and enters the realm of purpose. It’s understanding that your business isn’t separate from your spiritual journey—they’re the same path walked simultaneously. It’s recognizing that the challenges in your business aren’t problems to solve but invitations to evolve. It’s knowing that when you align with this deeper current, synchronicities like Tylney’s Crowea encounter become not miraculous exceptions but natural confirmations that you’re in flow.
The Integration Imperative
Perhaps the most urgent insight from this collection is Rachel’s revelation about integration. We cannot build Sacred Businesses while maintaining fragmented identities. The energy leak from constant code-switching, from maintaining multiple personas, from compartmentalizing our gifts—this is what keeps us exhausted and unfulfilled despite external success.
The invitation is clear: stop performing different versions of yourself. Start weaving the connections. Let your corporate experience inform your creative work. Let your spiritual practice infuse your strategy sessions. Let your wounds become wisdom that serves others’ transformation.
Beyond the Illusion of Separation
Einstein called our sense of separation “an optical delusion of consciousness.” This month’s writers prove him right through lived experience. Whether it’s my recognition that business challenges are actually frequency problems, Tylney’s discovery that distance and time are irrelevant to true connection, Joey’s understanding that physiological synchronization happens between deeply connected people, or Rachel’s revelation that her separate work identities were actually serving the same purpose—each essay chips away at the illusion that we are separate beings having isolated experiences.
The truth? We’re all part of an interconnected web, and our businesses are simply vehicles for making that web visible, tangible, and transformative.
The Connection Revolution
What would change if you stopped trying to create connections and started removing what blocks them? What if instead of networking harder, you got still enough to hear the guidance that’s always been there? What if instead of being more vulnerable about your struggles, you spoke from the frequency of your transformation?
This is the revolution Sacred Business offers: not another strategy for success, but a return to the fundamental truth that everything is connected. Your business thrives when you thrive. Your clients transform when you transform. Your impact expands when you stop fragmenting your energy and start operating from wholeness.
Connection isn’t something you add to your business. It’s what your business is made of. Every client interaction, every piece of content, every offer you create—they’re all threads in the larger tapestry of connection you’re weaving with your life’s work.
The question isn’t whether you’ll choose connection. The question is whether you’ll allow it to transform you—and through you, everyone your Sacred Business touches.
Featured Essay
Connection: An Exploration and Discovery
by Tylney Taylor
What is connection? That was the question I asked myself a month ago, for the first time really. What does it mean to me? To others? To us as a species? This is a story about discovery that happened in just one month.
Like most things you plant a seed of, I began to notice connection all around me. And I don’t just mean how people interacted at the surface—no, I noticed all these different meanings people had for connection. More than notice, they were telling me without prompting! The world was telling me what I was wondering about, wanting to discover.
Connection started out in the superficial, physical sense. I was seeing more people, or maybe I was just more aware that I was. I was reaching out, but also being reached out to. From close friends to new business contacts, podcasters to book writers, to new friends. These all brought opportunities to engage, connect, say yes or no to. But that was just the beginning—literally scratching the surface.
Looking back, I’ve had some strong connections with a few people in my life. Connections that span the globe and decades. You know those connections where you don’t see someone for years and then you reconnect and it’s like no time has passed? You are connected at a deeper level of self. They see you, you see them. You feel safe to be authentic, to radiate who you really are. You are safe.
Those are the people you think about, and before you know it they call you, or you just bump into them! I’ve experienced this so many times it isn’t even strange anymore.
Distance and time are irrelevant with connection.
I recall the moment I heard about my father passing. The phone rang. I already knew what the call was going to be about. My conscious mind took a while to catch up, but my self already knew.
A more recent example was during my Vipassana 10-day silent meditation retreat. When I came back, my wife told me she had felt connected to me the first five days very strongly, with two major moments on days 4 and 5 where she felt I was angry and would blame her for whatever was going on. Then the connection seemed to drop for the next five days.
What happened for me? We had no communication—no phones, no writing, no speaking, no eye contact. But on day 4 at lunchtime I had thoughts of “Can I take more of this pain? I could just quit and go home.” At that moment I immediately saw my wife, my children and friends in my mind, and there was no way I was giving them the satisfaction of me giving up. LOL, no way. The same thing happened on day 5. Maybe 1-2 minutes but really strong feelings and connection. The two sides of this experience are connected, and we were connected. How fascinating.
Something else happened on day 7 or 8. I had deviated from the meditation instructions and experienced something amazing, but then couldn’t get back into even a light meditative state for hours. My mind was freaking out, doubting, wondering if I had “broken it.” I left the meditation hall feeling unsure and despondent.
On my way back I noticed this incredible bush with purple-pink flowers that I’d walked past all week. It was situated right before the meditation hall in a spot that got lots of sun while other areas were shadowy. It always seemed to glow. This day, as I walked past feeling uncertain, I heard a voice in my head, but coming from the bush: “Trust yourself. You are ok. Trust what you are doing.”
I stopped in my tracks. Stunned but not shocked. I turned to the bush and thanked it. Closed my eyes and saw perfect crimson pink concentric circles, each with 5-petalled flowers. I stood there maybe 30 seconds. When I went back to meditate, I went straight into a very deep and calm meditation, after struggling for two hours with doubt just earlier. Connection of a different kind. When I got home I looked up what the bush flower stands for. It was Crowea, which is said to have the following impact: “Whether you’re experiencing a vague sense of unease or simply feeling ‘not quite right,’ Crowea supports emotional alignment and restores a deep sense of calm.” How fascinating!
Science would dismiss what I experienced as imagination since it’s not testable. However, recent advances in quantum physics hint at how this might work
- there are structures in our brain so small they apparently experience quantum entanglement effects. We live in interesting times indeed.
The last reminder of connection came a few days ago. I was invited to a cycling group of financial heavy hitters in Sydney. Daunting. My bike didn’t fit in the car so I had to take my wife’s much smaller mountain bike. Here I am feeling like a teenager on a kid’s bike among 25 high flyers with their carbon fiber elite bikes and full kit.
You know what? Nobody cared. It was about having a ride, getting to know new people as we rotated around the park. When I talked to Chino, the organizer, about what these rides were all about, he said: “Connection.” Connection and trust. Building relationships outside of work.
Not LinkedIn or digital connection—no, real face-to-face connection. Person to person. Where we don’t have to pretend or carry the facade that work often requires.
Working alone like I do makes connections harder. The same guy who invited me to the bike ride had already included me in a running group a year earlier—I had never run before and now do 10km with somewhat ease (maybe, sometimes...). He suggested I take a desk in his shared office space. So today I signed a lease and will be in an office with over 200 people and a larger community of startups. These are business connections that come from connection fueled by common interests, shared time, similar humor.
This month of being aware of connection has also allowed me to realize that some of my connections—with my mother, my children, close friends, and my wife—could be better. I can be better. More mindful, more attentive, more caring. This awareness has been in my consciousness for a while, but I’ve been preoccupied with other, less important things. But writing this, and being conscious of connection and how important it is, has changed that.
So has the daily 45-60 minutes of meditation I’m now doing. I thought it would be impossible to “find the time” but I made the time. It’s connection to me, to my Self, that I hadn’t had before. The most intimate relationship. This month’s focus has allowed me to examine my own inner connection. It has become stronger, richer, more honest, and it’s already showing in my work and how I show up in the world.
So if you’re curious about what connection means for you and the people around you, I encourage you to be curious, vigilant, suspend judgment and learn about where and when and how it shows up every day. Lean in, learn and discover how rich your life really is, and notice how you likely are more connected and valued than you had noticed in the past.
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Tylney Taylor is a contributing writer for The Sacred Business Writer’s Collective focused on helping creative professionals overcome barriers to authentic self-expression. You can follow him on Substack here.
Community Insights
The Gift Before the Connection
by Joey Clifton
What if the secret to deeper connection isn’t learning new skills, but removing what blocks an ability you already possess?
Joey reveals a profound truth: we don’t need to learn how to connect—we’re already wired for it. The real challenge? Cultivating the fertile soil of presence in a world designed to scatter our attention. Through embodied wisdom and research-backed insights, discover why two deeply connected people’s heartbeats literally synchronize, and learn the three spheres of connection that transform everything from your morning routine to your client relationships..
“Connection is like a plant. Yes, there’s some skill to it, but ultimately if you water the seed and give it light and air, it will grow. The challenge is cultivating the fertile soil within which the seed—connection—can grow in the first place. That fertile soil is your presence.”
When Your Monday Self Meets Your Friday Self
by Rachel Connor
Are you exhausted from switching between your “professional self” and your “creative self”—only to realize they’ve been trying to have the same conversation all along?
Rachel exposes the hidden cost of our carefully maintained work personas: the energy leak that comes from fragmenting ourselves into acceptable pieces. Through her journey from split consultant/coach identity to integrated practitioner, she reveals how the compartmentalization we learned in school is now suffocating our Sacred Business potential. Discover the Integration Audit that can help you stop performing different versions of yourself and start weaving the luminous thread that runs through all your work.
“What if the armour you think protects your professional credibility is strangling not just your business but your capacity to connect?”
Why Your “Realness” Might Be Repelling Your Dream Clients
by Phil Powis
“There’s a fine line between authentic vulnerability and using your audience as your therapy session. Same story, completely different impact.”
You’re being completely authentic in your marketing, showing up as your “real self”—so why does everything feel forced and nothing’s converting?
In this piece, I dismantle the biggest lie in modern marketing: that vulnerability and “keeping it real” about your struggles is the ultimate path to connection. Using the Frequency First framework, discover why speaking FROM your wounds creates a completely different energetic signature than speaking TO possibility. Learn why your business challenges aren’t actually business challenges—they’re invitations to evolve—and how the Harmony Map reveals which frequencies are blocking your authentic magnetism.
Why Your Marketing Feels Fake (Even When You’re Being Real)
by Sacred Business Flow
The Harmony Map Assessment reveals which disconnection pattern is causing you to speak from wounds instead of wisdom—repelling the exact clients you’re meant to serve. If you’re exhausted from vulnerability that leaves you depleted, frustrated by authentic content that doesn’t convert, and sense there’s a deeper frequency mismatch between who you are and how you show up—this assessment pinpoints exactly where your connection circuitry is shorting out. For entrepreneurs ready to stop performing different versions of themselves and start operating from integrated wholeness, discover which of the 9 Fundamental Frequencies needs realignment to magnetize soul-aligned success.
“Connection isn’t something you create through strategy—it’s what emerges when you remove the blocks to your natural frequency.”
Your Voice in the Flow
The voices in this issue reveal connection not as something to create, but as the natural state that emerges when we stop fragmenting ourselves. From Tylney’s quantum discoveries that transcend time and distance, to the frequency framework I shared that transforms how we speak our truth, to Rachel’s integration journey from scattered identities to coherent wholeness, to Joey’s revelation that presence is the fertile soil where connection grows—these stories illuminate the path from isolation to integration.
Your voice matters in this conversation. Your unique perspective on how connection shows up in your entrepreneurial journey, your struggles with authentic marketing, your breakthroughs in removing the blocks to natural connection—these experiences have the power to support others walking similar paths. The Sacred Business community thrives when we share our discoveries, our moments of mysterious synchronicity, and our hard-won wisdom about what true connection requires.
We invite you to contribute your voice to this ongoing exploration.
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