The Path Appears When You Take the First Step with Mitch Russo

Mark Porteous: Hello. Welcome to Leading with Purpose. I am here with Mitch Russo. Mitch and I go way back. We were just talking before about meeting in person in 2018 and when I remember meeting you then and your background with Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins, we can talk a little bit about that, but really, really excited to to hear what's up now with Mitch Russo, welcome to leading with purpose. How you doing Mitch?

I'm doing great. Mark. Thank you so much for the invite, and love the opportunity to finally catch up, and it's been a while, and I think you were correct in stating that my life really was about the business I had built in the businesses that I had helped scale and sold and all those other good things. But that's not at all what my life is about now, and it all started at a particular point in time. Probably the roots of this whole transformation for me goes back to October of 2023 so it's been a while. And what was happening for me, Mark, and maybe you can might know other people as well. The coaching business was changing in the late 2223 range. And for me, what that looked like was that instead of doing 50, 60k a month in coaching revenue, I started to do 10k a month, and then 3k a month, and I'm thinking, what's going on here? Nothing about me has changed. You know, all my marketing was still in place. Something is going on. And, you know, I'm starting to have prospect calls, and of which, I was a perfect fit for them, and it wasn't clicking, and I couldn't quite figure out why, and I ended up deciding, after chatting with a friend who has experience in this area, I decided to go to rythmia in Costa Rica for a week of Ayahuasca ceremonies. Now, if you don't know what that is, Ayahuasca is a psychedelic, and it's a very, very, very powerful psychedelic. So if you ever go for ayahuasca, and after you come back, someone says, how was it? Did you have fun, you'll probably, you'll probably crack up laughing, because the last thing it is, is fun.

Mark Porteous: To be clear, this is not like some synthetic drug. This is a drug that's been used by the natives and aborigines for a very, very long time. There's a whole process to it. And rhythmia, again, is a very big resort that has a process as well. They can do that kind of groups as well. Is that correct?

Yes, yes. And so we were, we were what they called a small group, about 70 people. That's a small group, 70 small group. Yeah, they usually have 125 or so. And here's what it comes down to. The ceremony is beautiful. The music is amazing, the food, the facilities, everything is great. But once you swallow that medicine, once you drink you're you are transported to a different place. And once you get there, it's sort of like, imagine if you go up to the counter the airport, to the ticket agent and say, Yes, I'd like one please. And they say, Yes, sir, we'd be happy to help you where, what? Where do you want to go? Where do you want to take it to? And you say, Oh, just, I just want to take it. That's kind of how it starts out, because you just have no idea where it's going to take you. It could take you to a beautiful, sunny beach where you're surrounded by Pula girls and pina coladas, or it could take you to the depths of your horror and have you re experience all the worst times of your life. Now you might say, Well, why would anybody want to do that? And I can't, I don't have a good answer for it. I could only tell you what happened to me, and really, if I could sum it up, and this is four nights in a row. Says, And you know, if you know ayahuasca, you know these are not short sessions, these are eight to 12 hour sessions,

Mark Porteous: So at a personal experience, but yeah, and you had an intention set going in there, or did you just literally go in there with the no ticket? Just tell me wherever you want to go.

Well, they help you set your intentions. But like I said, Before, my life was so in my life Mark, I have moved through several phases, and one time I did an analysis, I looked at my life in terms of cycles, and I realized that I've entered the sixth cycle of my life around that time, 2322 23 but I didn't know it, and I didn't realize that it was actually a cycle until I looked back some time ago. But when a cycle ends, it generally doesn't tell you what the next one is, kind of, hey. Cue to the end of the cycle and says, Okay, you're here. What do you want to do now? And the answer is never clear. At least it has never been clear for me. It was just, you just launch into it and you start trying things and hoping this works, or hoping that works. But what happened for me is I kind of, I kind of felt like every time I were to pursue a coaching client, I felt like a piece of my soul was was being lost. Now I still had my software platform. We had built client folio as a coaching platform. It was fine. It was doing okay, but it really wasn't, in a sense, my passion anymore, and I didn't know what my passion was. So I came back from four sessions of ayahuasca, and I felt purged. So what that means is that when you do a plant medicine like ayahuasca, you're purging cellular trauma. Now, if you're a young person, you may think lights don't have a lot of that, and you might be right, but most people have more than they realize, even at in their 20s. Well, Mark is he? No, I'm I'm 70 years old, 71 at this point, I've had, yeah, I've had a good amount of, as we all have of life trauma, and in a cellular way, it becomes part of you. So what Ayahuasca does, rapidly and sometimes violently, is it purges it from your system, and what you what I felt afterwards is I felt relieved. I didn't have an answer to my question. I didn't I didn't quite can know exactly what I was gonna do, but I didn't feel bad anymore. So I felt like it was an improvement. And this

was in October the following, six months later, I was invited to a local shaman ceremony that was not Ayahuasca. It was a very gentle substance called Khanna. It's like something you could buy on Amazon. It's a very light, gentle substance. And I went, and the ceremony was beautiful. I met some new people, and an hour into the ceremony, the most unbelievable thing in my entire life happened to me. I became completely flooded. Every cell of my body was flooded with life and love, and I felt as if I had merged with God. I felt as if I became one with the Divine at every level, down to the cells, I felt as if I was going to explode with love, I could hold it in it was I felt like my field was radiating 60 feet in either direction. It was just so massive. And the shaman who was there, a very experienced guy, realized right away what was going on, and he helped me get oriented. He helped me through it. But when I came back after that ceremony, I came back to my little apartment here on Pompano Beach, and I just sat for a week. I just sat and looked out the window, and I just looked out the window, I mean, for the entire week, I just said, Okay, I just, I was so empty. I was so present. I had no thoughts. I had. I had no to do's I hadn't I had. My mind was so quiet that it was, it was eerie how totally quiet everything was. And I just sat there, and I just looked at the ocean the entire time I had, about a week later, I picked up, picked up pen, and I started to journal, and I could journal, sometimes for 20 minutes, sometimes for four hours, and I just kept journaling and journaling and journaling. And this was May of next October that followed that same year, October, I had, at the last minute, decided I was going to go to a Joe Dispenza event and a seven day advanced retreat. And I don't know if you know anything about Joe, oh

Mark Porteous: Yeah, yeah. I know about the seven day retreat. I know all about the prep work before the event and the measurements and the science and the results that come from it. Have you been I have not, but I have several clients that haven't. It's definitely on my list.

It's yeah, you guys got to go. So here's what happened in the six months between the time I awoke and the time I went to Dispenza. I kept I just realized in that six month period that I'm enough. I am everything I need. I don't need anything else, anything I don't need clients. I don't need money. I don't need I don't I'm whole. I am completely happy. Being whole. And so in a moment of or I should say, in a time of my life where I was in full allowance and fully present and totally open to just about anything, things started to come to me. And it's in the place of full appreciation is where you're sending the signal into the universe that says, I'm open and I'm ready. And when you are in full, 100% body level appreciation of everything and of life and of yourself and of your sense of the Divine, whatever that may be for you, then the universe opens to accept you in and take you to where you need to be. And so I still wasn't entirely clear who that was, but I didn't care. I just every day kept journaling, every day kept doing this, and then finally, right about, I would say, right around a month after, right about a month after I got back. Oh, I told you I've been journaling now. So about, about two months after I got back, I got the idea that maybe I should write a book. I don't know what it would be about. The reason I decided to write a book is I've already written five of them, and each of them had done, well, they're, they're not like best sellers or any Oh, they actually were. But that's the point is, is that they're, they're business books, you know, they're blueprint books, step by step by step by step, and you get the outcome. You're happy. You learned my secret sauce. You can apply it for yourself. Blah, blah, blah. So I figured I'd write another one of those books. So I did that, and I started writing and writing and writing, and I got about 30,000 words into the book, and now I'm completely disoriented. I don't like the book. Fact, I

hate the book. Now that writing the book isn't even interesting or desirable anymore, it's just become a chore that I assigned myself, and I don't like that. I said, Wait a minute, this isn't fun. I'm not doing this anymore. And the next day, I walk into my little home office, and I look at the bookshelf and one book like you have a whole bookshelf behind you. Have a wall over there? Yeah, I'm a wall that looks like you're what's behind you right now, I looked over in one book and lit up for me, and I just walked over and I pulled it out, and it was the alchemist. And so I said, Okay, I took the book, and I sat down and I reread it. I'd read it several times before. I reread the book, and then right after I reread the book, I thought to myself, That's it. What I I'm not. I don't need to write a business book. I don't want to write a business book. I want to write a story, a journey, a parable, about a person who takes the next step in life when it doesn't look like there's any step to take. And that became something else. So one of the things I hadn't mentioned is that after the event where I awoke, I started receiving, and I started receiving in a very, very traumatic way, I now regularly channel a series of entities called Maxwell. And so Maxwell comes to me and can we work with clients all the time? Now, I didn't plan on this. This is just what happened. And so people call me up and and ask for sessions, and I have a little web page where, you know, they can go and sign up and all that. But the bottom line is that I asked at the end of one session with a client, the client hung up, and I'm just in this beautiful space. And I said, Okay, Maxwell, so what about me? What am I supposed to do now? And all of a sudden, the book sacred Crossroads began pouring through me. I mean, like I couldn't write fast enough to take down the information. I tried to record it, but it was the translation was harder from these blocks of inspiration to words that in

writing, so I just in speech. So I just started writing and writing and writing before I looked up. It was about six weeks later, and I had the framework for the entire book and so, and I got to tell you, every time I would sit down to write, I'd end up crying because the story was so beautiful and it was so personal in all even though it had nothing to none of my information in the book. So, so as this book continued to pour through me, other people started to show up in my life. I mean, like show up. So I ended up connecting with a woman who. On one of these like mastermind calls, someone said to me, you should speak to so and so. So I get on the phone with this woman, and I tell her what I'm doing. She was like, I can't help you at all. I know somebody who can Her name is Jane. I'll put you in touch with her. So I got in touch with Jane. I said, Jane, a copy of the book, saving long story. Make it short. Bottom lines that Jane loaded it up into speechify, I think, and she listened to it while she was driving, and she fell in love with the book, and she came back and said, Okay, this book is too important. This has to come out. You must get this into the marketplace. And she has 40 years of publishing experience. She didn't ask me for a penny. She just offered to shepherd me through. She wanted to become my book Angel, and I said, you got it paved. Thank you so much. And so she shepherded me through this entire process. She introduced me to all her contacts. But I'm leaving out one important part of this because I mentioned I had gone to a Joe Dispenza event. And in anyone who goes to a Joe Dispenza event knows that in seven days, you're doing approximately 40 hours of meditation in the in in the session meditation

Mark Porteous: With Google. Like 1000 people, 2000 2000 people. Yeah, right.

And you don't feel as if it's on personal. You feel it's very personal. Talk to Joe has a way of bringing every single person in, making you feel as if you're the only one. In a way, everything is provided for you so you don't have to worry about a thing. And one of the last meditations was a exercise where and Joe is very careful about his the words he uses. He never uses the words visualize, because visualize means it's separate from you. So what he does instead is he says, Create your future and pull it towards you. So one of the things that I had realized in my life I've been divorced since 2018 is it was time for me to have the real and most important, most significant love relationship I would ever have, and it would need to be now, because I couldn't have had it before. Before I was awakened, I was not worthy of that type of relationship, and now I am. And so in that meditation, I I couldn't visualize the physical person, but I visualized the being, and I pulled her towards me. And after the meditation was over, it was great. I love it. I went and had lunch, and that was the end of that, and almost forgot about it. About About 10 days later, I get a notice of one of these apps I've been on for years, and hardly pay attention to that someone had asked me a question, so I go to look and it's a very attractive woman, and answer her question. Next thing you know, we're meeting for lunch, and so this happened all inside of three weeks, right after the dispenser event. We've been together ever since. We'll likely be together for the rest of our lives. And she is my life, yeah,

Mark Porteous: Oh, I did that. I'm hearing this story for the very first time. So goosebumps and filled with joy for you.

So thank you. My life is very blessed. So blessed right now and and then, of course, the most amazing thing happens again, these things came to me. I didn't I didn't feel like I had to go pursue stuff. So client folio I mentioned earlier was my SaaS platform for coaches. And I have a friend out here in Boca, Raton. His name is Mike Phil same. We've been friends for maybe five to six years.

Mark Porteous: Most people in our industry know who might feel same is right, right? So we were

out to dinner with a bunch of guys, and they said, no, like, I sure would appreciate it if you could run an email out to your massive list and offer them client folio. And he and I had asked him before he go, yeah, maybe we'll do that someday, you know. So it was, it was dinner, and we were all probably watered one or two drinks. And I don't drink, by the way, anymore. I haven't really had a drink or anything related to that since the experience. So we're after dinner. He says, Look, we're just around the corner for our office. Let's go back. I want to see this client folio thing. Says, Sure. So I go back and I sit down. And now it's like 10 o'clock at night, and I'm doing a one hour demo, and the guy is like, hold me blown away. And he says, holy, God, Miss, this is way more powerful than I ever realized. But, man, I said, ugly. I said, Yeah, it's ugly. It was written. It was worked really well. It worked really well, but the interface was horrible. And I'm not an interface designer, you know what I mean? So I I said to Well, look, I know, I know. But once you learn it, it doesn't matter, because now it really matters a lot. Says, tell you what, let me help you. That's great. What would you want to do? He goes, let me put my team on this. You know, there'll be some overtime you love to pay for or whatever. But I think Sure so. So he sets me up with his development team, and using AI, they completely redeveloped the entire platform in about three months. Now, three months back, a year ago, was quick today, today, we could do the whole thing in approximately two days because of the way AI is so we're and I'll get into that more if you want, but the bottom line is that we're now using AI to take the software to the very next level, way past anything I had ever envisioned. It's like having a team of 30 senior level programmers working for you full time, 24 hours a day. So you could kind of do if you could dream it, you could create it

now. And not only is Mike been helping me do that, I'm learning to do it too. So now I'm evolving myself and my product. And now Mike is my business partner, and he's selling click coach, which is the rebranded name of client folio, with all these new features, this beautiful interface, and everything that just showed up in my life. So I mean, all of this is on the backdrop of coming from a place where I was completely despondent, didn't know what to do, and sort of lost what I was doing before and wasn't enthusiastic about anything. And then all of a sudden, fast forward. Here I am living this incredible life in a way I had never imagined, and having a book out. Now, I don't know if you could see it, probably bad with the background,

Mark Porteous: But no, no, we do it. And I'm glad you see the whole book there, because I we saw behind you part of crossroads, yeah, but we didn't see the sacred above it. And for anybody who's not familiar with Wheel of Fortune, they might have missed and not quite sure that that was Crossroads behind you. So sacred crossroads, beautiful artwork, beautiful cover, organ. Again, I love the passion and excitement that I feel from you, and again, from your writing partner, your publisher, about being able to get that out there, and the importance of that, about getting this out there, and that's why we're here today, is to talk about, really, that piece about you don't have to do it Ayahuasca. I'm hoping that we're thinking that you can help people to really be able to step into the floor of their purpose and all this in panic part without so

Exactly one of my one of my gifts as a business individual, in this human being, is I have been able to see other people's pathways very clearly. That's why I was really so good at coaching, because I could see very clearly, very quickly what was needed in a business a because I really had 40 years of business experience, but more importantly, because I can prioritize things rapidly. When I see a company or a person, I can rapidly prioritize. I couldn't do it through myself when I really thought I needed it, but, but, but then again, God had other plans for me. I mean, that was the beautiful part about it. I wasn't supposed to do it for myself. It was supposed to happen. So, as I've learned, and I'm sure Mark, as you know, our goal is not to do so much as it is to intend. And I don't mean to not to sit in basically in an empty chair with your eyes closed and intend. I mean, you should work towards your intentions. But what it really comes down to is they have to be aligned. And your body knows what alignment feels like. Most people can recognize that. So if I work when, when I work with somebody, whether it's to get their book out, whether it's to scale a business, whether it's to to grow their their coaching business, whatever that may be, I am able to find that alignment in another person very, very quickly. So we we use all of these ideas when we work with clients, to help them find that special sacred book inside of them and then connect it to what it is that they're doing to make money, and it's a beautiful union.

Mark Porteous: I absolutely love it. You talked about yourself being known as a great strategist, and there's a reason why Tony Robbins brought you in as a CEO, but you've also done the inner work, and like I know the backstories and some of them, you know some of their your own personal journey that got you here and now again, you're helping people to really look at their their life's work as part of their personal journey. And then bringing in this extra piece, you said that you're working with, what was the group like? Abraham? Maxwell. Maxwell, yes, and I brought up Abraham because I've known Abraham, and many people might be familiar with with Abraham Hicks and that work, I got to finally, actually sat in the chair with Abraham for my birthday last year in June, 14.

Oh, wow, yeah, wow. They're so beautiful. Yeah.

Mark Porteous: And so I like, I understand. When you to me, the reason that you have Maxwell is because you've been doing the inner work like you don't just become a channel, because the channel that's all ideas is that you're you've cleared a lot of those things, and so that you can bring this extra thing now you've got the strategy, you've got the the intuitive inner guidance and being able to bring those pieces together. I'm super excited for you, and again, being a living example of that. I'm curious, because again, when you talked about sitting for a week looking at the ocean, I can literally look at the left side of your face, I think it is, and see the sunshine coming in the window and that you're the ocean is literally you could just turn it the other way and see the ocean. Many of us don't have that. Many of us don't have a home on the ocean and and a career that's built, that's been built up to be able to say, I trust the universe.

Yes, yeah, it's it's true, it's accepted. You don't need that the ocean is not what's important. What's important is to have the space to process. So what that might mean for you is different than what it means for me. For some people, having space to process could just be turning off the devices for a long time and being with yourself. The hardest person to be with is yourself, most people, and ultimately, that's the most important person you need to learn to be with. And if you hear stories about these things called deprivation tanks, you know that if you put the average person into a deprivation, sensory deprivation tank, they can't stand it, and that that's important to know. The reason they can't stand this because their mind is so busy it doesn't stop and there's nothing to distract them. It's if you if you're a meditator, I've been a meditator at least 35 years, and probably longer, and so when I started learning the Joe Dispenza meditations, it took me even deeper and faster. And anybody who attends an advanced Joe Dispenza event is going to come away with the ability to go deep past and of course, like Joe says, and like you know intuitively, if you stop doing it, you stop losing that, that presence. If you keep doing it, you keep it and it grows and it multiplies. One of the things we did is we formed a group, little retreat. We got 10 or 12 people. Got together. We decided we were going to meditate every night together on Zoom. And that group has been going ever since October of 2024, and it's expand, expanded down to over 500 people. So you know, and it's only advanced students who graduated the seven day retreat. And we share, and it's, you know, this is thought encouraged in a way. But, you know, Joe sells his meditations. He doesn't. Is no subscription platform. You buy them. So you could buy a meditation for 25 or $30 and then it's yours. If somebody else wants one, you're if you gave them yours, it would be kind of like

stealing, you know. So what we do is, with permission, we broadcast them in the zoom. Room can't be recorded, and you can only listen in as as an attendee. So we're able to create that feeling of the energy of, you know, a bunch of people together in a single space

Mark Porteous: That's so powerful. We just got done hosting our seventh annual soulful leadership retreat. And the idea of community is so important, especially after you have an event like that, of keeping the container together, you know, if you learn all this stuff over even a week, and as tense as it is, if you go back into the ordinary world, and I was thinking about that earlier, the whole hero's journey. You know, you got called out from the ordinary world, you got invited to this bizarre experience, and got to face all your enemies and meet allies and your Ayahuasca journey. And then you get to bring back the boon, and that's really where we are now, is that you want to be able to share this with everyone else. So for anybody that's listening or watching? Well, first of all, where do we get it? On Amazon, I'm guessing. Is there a better place to find your book?

No, no. You could buy audible or Amazon. And the tagline of the book is the path appears when you take the first step. And to me, that was probably the most significant message I received from the very beginning. It was, if I couldn't take the first step, the path would never show up. And so when I was asked, what is the tagline for your book, it was immediate like, Oh, of course, it has to be this. So, yeah, it's on Amazon. You could buy it, you can you can get it. Audible. I prefer audible myself, but other people like to read. The only thing I would ask is, you know, if you're going to read it and enjoy it, I hope you do is to write a review. It's very hard for authors to get reviews. I hate to ask, but it's part of the process of promoting is to get good reviews for your book, if the book is worth it. The other thing is, of course, is that we're now getting several book clubs that have expressed interest. We've created a book club guide as well, because this is the type of book that, after you read it, you're going to you're going to be able to work with other people with the concepts of the book about how to bring yourself forward through what might have been hidden before. So like the alchemist, it's a parable. You know, the story of the Alchemist is somebody who goes on a long journey to find something that he had at the very beginning. So no, that that's almost a definition of a parable, and that's what this is about. It's a story about a man who has been locked up into a lifestyle that has served him and his family for three generations until something shifts, and it can no longer work that way anymore. And that's where the whole story begins. And it begins in a mystical place in a world, part of Massachusetts that doesn't exist, and the people that come into his life are destined to be there at exactly the right time, and and and together, they go on this exploration of really, of themselves, even though it plays out outside, in

their outside world, It's really an inner exploration, and that's what the book, I hope, delivers, in terms of its message. So

Mark Porteous: I love that. I think it's very relatable. I think that with everything that's happening, not only in our country, but in the world right now, people are feeling the shift that's right been happening for some time, but like we're really at a precipice right now. And I love the tagline. I wanted to go back to that kind of as a final word for leading with purpose around taking the first step. And it made me think of the golden child, an Eddie Murphy movie, believe it or not, sure Eddie had that he had to go through these different tests, and one of them was to step out into the abyss, and as he took the step, the step, or the steps, arise as he took them. And so, right? Somebody who, who may not be clear, like, how do you how do you know what the first step is?

I'm going to read you the tagline again to answer your question. The path appears when you take the first step. Sometimes, in fact, most of the time, you don't know what the first step is, and so sometimes you have to take several steps that don't work out for you to know whether it was the first step or not. So for example, if you're, if you're the type of person that I was. I was very headstrong, very determined, I was very success and focused, motivated that way I would, I would take that first step so many times that my head would get bruised from banging on the same wall. What I've come to learn is that when you take a step, you sense whether that step was in the right direction or not, and even if it didn't work the first time, and you try it again, you use your senses to determine whether or not you're headed in the right direction. And it might not be, but if you're not taking any steps, then that's where the whole process falls apart. So if you're sitting there in a situation, and there are people that have family situations, that have divorced and health issues, and say, well, Mitch, you didn't have that, or that was not your pathway, it doesn't matter. I have had those, all of those things in my past as well. But the most important thing right now is to try and get some clarity on what you are and who you are. That's the most important thing. So what does the book do? The book really is an inspiration. And I think that's kind of, you know, it's not a how to it's not a blueprint book.

Mark Porteous: It's not a good one. It can be, though, it can be a first step. I'm not sure what the first step is. The sacred Crossroads could be the first step. And I will put the links, both for Amazon and for Audible in the show notes. I have one more question for you too before we wrap up. I'm curious, because this is leading with purpose, and you had so many different you said six different cycles that you've been through at this point in your life. What does leading with purpose mean to you?

So I have been blessed in my life to have been financially secure at this point. So I don't I love to work, I love to help people, and I love to make money. But I don't have to. And I know people say, Yeah, well, sure, I'd love to be in that situation too. Look, you know what? It took me a while I work to get to this situation, and you will too. My purpose right now is to help as many people as I can see their pathway forward. That is my purpose. Now, the other thing is, is that, you know, I'm not so altruistic that I'm going to dedicate my life to doing nothing but helping other people. I'm going to do it my way, and whether or not that's through entertainment or training or programs. I mean, one person approached me very quickly after the book was released, and said, do that, do you have a are you gonna run a course where you could work with the sacred crossword system? And I said, Yeah, maybe. Who knows? But that's not what this is about right now. This is about you getting what The Book says and applying it to your life, and thinking about it, spending some time with it. It's not it's not a do. Step one, do one thing. Step two, do something else. It's not that at all. You know, you and your spouse read the book and discuss it. You and your friends, you and your reading circle, read the book even give you all the questions you could ask each other to really deepen the experience for you, if you go to sacred crossroads. Book.com you'll get a chance to download the wisdom tips, which are free, and I keep up with the updates. There'll be a sacred Crossroads book two and book three coming as well. And all

Mark Porteous: And so just to repeat, the website for those are listening, it's Crossroads wisdom.com

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Mark Porteous: sacred Crossroads book.com, sacred Crossroads book.com where they can go and they can download

The wisdom tips, the wisdom tips, so, so at the back of the book, with every every chapter is packed with with basic, timeless wisdom. And at the back of the book, there is a entire section called The Wisdom tips, trying to find it so I could show it to you. And the wisdom tips really are taken directly from each I don't know if you can see. It's called The Wisdom summaries. So right here in the book, it goes through each of the chapters and extracts the one that I felt was the most meaningful, but, and you could download that whole list for free. If you join the mailing list, you'll get occasional stories that I've written about this fictional place that in Massachusetts, yeah, called Cedar Springs Massachusetts, and it's named Cedar Springs because it's basically a place where cedar trees and underwater springs meet, and that has a very special significance, as you'll see as you get into the story. So I wanted to tell the backstory of that, and I wrote that as a giveaway, as a gift to my subscribers. So if it's if you're called to it, and you feel like it's a if you like spiritual books, if you like these types of books, these, this called my genre, is basically called magical fiction, but it's just much a transformational fiction book as anything else.

Mark Porteous: Love it, love it, love it. So excited. I'm excited to read it myself, and we'll have a follow up afterwards, because again, this is just the beginning, a first step for many people. I thank you so much for being here today and also just for being able to share your story and to trusting your guidance, to take that first step, to have that journey, and then to keep following and to be able to share this with the world.

Thank you, Mark, very appreciated.

Mark Porteous: Thank you, Mitch, and again, we'll follow up soon. Is there any other place where people can reach out to you if they want to find out more about Maxwell, or is the best way to go to

So channeling max.com is where you could find out a little bit more about Maxwell, and if you're called to it, you can book a session. I know that there are there's schedules available, so that's not a problem, but this probably won't be like anything you've experienced before, and I don't know time to time what it will be like for you until it starts. So as a as a channel, I do my best. My job is to get out of the way, as the way I see it, my job is to step aside and let a higher intelligence speak through me for you, that's what it's for.

Mark Porteous: Mitch, it's been an honor to see your evolution again. Just meeting in 2018 you'd already achieved and accomplished so much, but to see you on a personal. Like this and to see your book out, it's a great honor and great privilege to be your friend.

Thank you, Mark. Really appreciate it, and I can't wait to hear about how you like the book.

Mark Porteous: I will definitely follow up. I'm excited about it. It's the next one on my list.

Fantastic. Thanks, Mark.

Mark Porteous: Thank you Mitch, and thank you all for being here again. Check out the show notes for links to get to the book audible and to sacred crossroadsbook.com where you can download those wisdom tips. Thank you very much. We'll talk to you soon. Keep shining.