My first awakening into ancestral power

I got my first awakening into the ancestral power that I had inherited from my ancestors on a cold winter’s day in November 1994 in my last deep conversation that I had with my Dad before he died.

My Dad and I were talking over a glass of wine on a Saturday afternoon, looking across the misty rooftops from my fifth floor walk-up apartment and reflecting on life in general while my Mum was exploring the shops with my wife.

I was unloading the stress of the bullshit I had encountered at my consulting role.

I was living in Metz in Eastern France, doing my very first freelance consulting gig for an investment bank in Luxembourg. It was hugely political and very disappointing, and the boss was a massive a-hole.

Everyone there hated my boss, and his director was cutting his budget in half at every annual review in an effort to get him to leave.

I got along so well with everyone that colleagues had started to call me to politely apologise in-advance before deliberately fucking things up for me just to get at my boss.

Someone once said that working in financial services is like working in a sheltered workshop for the middle-class insane. And, being a freelance consultant in that industry in the 1990s paid insanely well.

Taking the gig in Luxembourg as a freelance consultant had doubled my income, but it was also a very disappointingly hard lesson in what I call “corporate fuckery”.

My Dad looked at me and said “I’ve got a few things to tell you son.”

He told me how proud of me he was - I was 27 years old doing my first freelance international consulting gig for one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, working in a foreign language and making more than 50000 pounds a year in consulting revenue. Wealth that previous generations that my family could never conceived-of.

He apologised for the abuse and pain that he, and my mother, had put me through in my childhood. He had come to realise just how much he and my mother had projected their own fears and shadows onto me.

It showed me that he had integrated enough of his shadows to reach a position of understanding on the sacrifices he had made and how that sacrifice had impacted our family.

In that long conversation, he also told me about the conversations that he had with his own father, and about the sacrifices that my family had endured during WW1 and WW2, and the death and disaster which had killed many others, yet my family had the power to survive despite this.

I felt like I had been truly seen by my father for the very first time, and how proud he was of me.

I understood for the very first time that I had inherited amazing powerful gifts as well as shadows from my ancestors.

I felt loved by him like I had never felt love before.

My father had awakened me to the idea that I had inherited powerful gifts from my ancestors.

I quit the consulting gig that I hated a few months later and found a new consulting gig in New Zealand.

Paid half as much in NZ dollars, but was ten times more fun.

My gifts had been consciously awakened and I relocated to the other side of the planet, knowing that not one challenge I would find would be anywhere as difficult as the challenges that my ancestors had already overcome.

I’ve lived in five different countries and been to rock bottom a number of times - financially, spiritually and emotionally.

Three days before we were due to fly to Wellington, New Zealand, my father was gone. He was killed in a car accident late on a Thursday night on the road between Carnarvon and Bangor in North Wales. Losing him broke my heart, I was numb with depression for 2 years afterwards and it was the beginning of the end of my first marriage.

The connectivity to my ancestral gifts that my father had shown me, gave me the presence that allowed me to navigate my way through two marriages, two divorces and a career of successful delivery in high-risk corporate technology transformations over 30 years.

My achievements, and my ability to recover from hitting rock bottom a number of times, are primarily because of the ancestral power I was gifted by my family ancestors.

In my last transformation project, I was leading 120 engineers and technicians to deliver a $140m new platform where we had a drop dead date that if we missed it would cause the bank to lose its license to operate in 44 countries.

In the last six years I’ve written and published 5x Amazon #1 best-selling books, each of which I wrote the first draft manuscript in just one week.

My personal clients are entrepreneurs and leaders who have achieved lives of delicious adventures through working with me.

It is the presence of connection to the true self within us that is the foundation of ancestral power.

I’m running a 4-week transformation program starting this week on 24-June called Awaken Your Ancestral Power - if you’re interested message me.