MAKE YOURSELF
Build a life, a body of work, and income
that are a direct expression of who you are.
I HELP PEOPLE MAKE THEMSELVES.
And I’m Making JGB in real time.
Most people spend their lives trying to “make it.”
Chasing success. Money. Stability. Recognition.
Go to school → Get a job → Build a career → Invest in a retirement savings plan
…but that path doesn’t hold true anymore.
More people are finding themselves stuck between systems that no longer work and a future that isn’t clearly defined.
So the question becomes:
What do you build when there’s no path to follow?
YOU BUILD YOURSELF
Not just internally,
but through your work, through applying your skills, through seeking exposure, knowledge and training… and through what you create from these lived experiences.
Making yourself is the process of doing the work to become who you are,
while building a life that actually reflects it.
Not after you figure yourself out.
But through the process of doing so.
MY STORY
I’ve been on my own since I was 15.
For a long time, I was stuck in survival mode,
but I never stopped chasing something bigger for myself.
Every time I got knocked down, I kept getting back up.
I kept showing up for myself.
In 2018, I hit rock bottom and made a decision that changed everything.
I took a leap of faith.
I stepped out of a life that was keeping me stuck,
and rebuilt from the ground up,
traveling to places where I could afford to work part-time
and finally give myself the space to heal.
What started as survival became a process.
A way of understanding myself.
A way of rebuilding my life.
A way of turning my lived experience into something meaningful.
Now, I’m integrating after a deeply transformative journey.
And through that process, I’ve come to understand something clearly:
You don’t become who you are first, then build your life.
You become who you are by building it.
That’s what I call making yourself.
THE PATH
This process follows a natural progression:
AWARENESS →HEALING→BECOMING→EXPRESSION
Not as a rigid sequence,
but as a cycle you weave through as you grow.
THE 4 Stages
1. AWARENESS
Understanding yourself.
→ How you’re wired
→ Your patterns, beliefs, and behaviors
→ The stories you’ve been living inside
This is where everything starts.
2. HEALING
Clearing what’s in the way.
→ Processing past experiences
→ Regulating your nervous system
→ Releasing what no longer serves
This creates space for something new.
3. BECOMING
Rebuilding who you are.
→ Developing self-trust
→ Reconnecting to your intuition
→ Learning discernment and direction
This is where identity shifts, and you start to build.
4. Expression
Turning who you are into something tangible.
→ Creating work that reflects you
→ Sharing your voice, ideas, perspective
→ Building a life & income from your lived experience
This is where your life becomes your work.
Most people get stuck in one stage.
→ Endless awareness without change
→ Healing without direction
→ Becoming without action
→ Expression without structure
I help you move through all of it.
From understanding yourself,
to building something tangible based on
the process of becoming who you are.
THE SYSTEM BEHIND
MAKE YOURSELF
Making yourself isn’t just a mindset.
It’s a process.
As you move through
Awareness, Healing, Becoming, and Expression,
you are also building something in real time.
Your life becomes your source.
Your work becomes the expression.
Here’s how that happens:
CAPTURE → EXTRACT→ STRUCTURE→ PACKAGE→ DISTRIBUTE
The H2MY Process
(how to make yourself)
My friends and clients describe me as:
Kind, caring, creative, helpful, curious, wise, joyful, fun, quick-witted, playful, professional, “cool”, a badass with grounding presence, inspiring, speedy, efficient, reliable, a skilled communicator, impressive when it comes to attention to detail and pattern detection, someone who goes above and beyond, powerful, resilient, gifted.
I am also:
Someone who needs clear communication and control over my space & time management, highly perceptive, depth-oriented, a visual systems thinker, neurodivergent (AuDHD), clairsentient, claircognizant, direct, nerdy, independent, a recovered workaholic, people-pleaser and perfectionist who is good at setting boundaries.
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