About This Episode

In this episode, I’m joined by Doreen, a bookkeeper, accountant, and founder of the Sacred Numbers community, for a grounded, honest conversation about money, energy, and aligned leadership.

We’re continuing to explore the Early Winter sojourn of Reputation and the question, How do I want to be known? through the lens of sacred numbers. Together, we talk about how your numbers tell the story of where you’ve been, what you’ve prioritized, and where you’re being invited to adjust or lead differently.

Doreen shares her perspective on why numbers are sacred, how fear around money and taxes disconnects us from our power, and what it looks like to build a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship with your finances. We also explore how Charting Your Course can support business owners in honoring their energy cycles while still meeting real-world responsibilities like deadlines, bookkeeping, and taxes.

This is a conversation about befriending your numbers rather than avoiding them, using clarity instead of fear, and letting your financial story support the reputation you’re building as an aligned leader.

What We Cover

• What “sacred numbers” are and why every number tells a story

• Why so many entrepreneurs fear their finances and how that impacts leadership

• Early Winter energy, reputation, and being known for integrity and clarity

• How to honor your personal seasons while still meeting financial deadlines

• Using tools, time, and technology as allies instead of sources of stress

• The emotional and energetic side of bookkeeping and money management

• How your spending patterns reflect your values and priorities

• Why confidence, care, and patience matter just as much as strategy

• Tracking financial cycles alongside energy cycles to reveal patterns

• Relating to money as an ally in aligned leadership

Key Takeaway

Your numbers are not here to shame you.
They’re here to inform you.

When you understand what your numbers are showing you, you gain clarity, confidence, and the ability to lead yourself with integrity. Alignment grows when energy, timing, and resources are working together.

Mentioned in This Episode

• Charting Your Course and the Personal Seasons Calendar

• Sacred Numbers Community

• Touchstones: Time, Tools, Techniques, and Technology

• Energy cycles, financial cycles, and pattern tracking

Connect with Doreen

Learn more about Doreen, her work, and upcoming events by visiting her website:
https://www.bkkgbydoreen.com/

Check out events like Get Your Ducks in a Row and explore new ways to build a supportive, respectful relationship with your numbers.

Next Steps

If this episode resonated with you:

• Create your Personal Seasons Calendar and start Charting Your Course: https://www.atmaitri.com/chartingyourcourse

• Notice what numbers, dates, or patterns keep showing up for you

• Get curious instead of judgmental

• Use your tools, don’t avoid them

Alignment comes from knowing where you are and responding with intention.

Episode SummaryIn this episode, I talk about what alignment actually looks like when external timing and internal energy don’t match. I explore why the pressure to move forward at the start of the calendar year can feel disorienting, especially for visionary, cyclical thinkers. We look at the difference between personal, professional, and business development, and why understanding those distinctions matters. This conversation is an invitation to trust your timing rather than override it.

What We Explore in This Episode

• The distinction between personal, professional, and business development

• Why January often creates pressure and self-judgment

• How collective calendars influence expectations

• The difference between influence and authority when it comes to timing

• What it means to practice alignment in real time

• Early winter energy and its role in reflection and discernment

Key Takeaways

• Alignment comes from knowing where you are, not forcing what’s next

• Collective timing can be useful without being directive

• Discernment is a core leadership skill

• Your internal knowing matters more than external pressure

• Being present supports clearer, more sustainable forward movement

About This EpisodeThis episode continues the orientation phase of the podcast, grounding listeners in how alignment works beneath the surface of goal setting and productivity culture. It sets the foundation for understanding timing, energy, and leadership as cyclical rather than linear, especially at moments when the world feels loud about what should happen next.

LinksCharting Your Course Charting Your Course Book

In this episode, I invite you into a more embodied conversation about legacy, integrity, and how your reputation forms in your moments of stillness.

This conversation was shaped in real time during my personal Winter Solstice, while visiting Driftwood Beach. Standing among the driftwood, surrounded by trees stripped down to their essence and frozen in time, I had a visceral realization about reputation as echo, as a residue. What continues to live on and move through the world long after a moment has passed.

I explore how reputation is formed through alignment and integrated through lived experience. How your work meets people exactly when they are ready for it. And why Early Winter is not asking you to rush forward in action, but to embody what you have already become.

In This Episode, I Talk About:

• Reputation as resonance rather than perception

• The Early Winter sojourn and why it is connected to legacy and embodiment

• The difference between external seasonal energy and your personal cycle of development

• Why Early Winter is not designed for urgency or forced momentum, like the "New Year, New You" conversations, will try to convince you to rush into

• How wisdom, influence, and reputation are shaped through integration

• What it means to work smarter, not harder, in winter

• How your work continues to live on and evolve beyond you

A Question to Live WithAs you move through Early Winter, I invite you to return to this question daily:

What do I want to be known for?

Not just publicly.Not just professionally.
But by yourself, in your own integrity, when everything is quiet.

Each time you ask it, you may see a different facet of the answer. Together, those reflections shape the life of your work beyond you.

Mentioned in This Episode

• Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island

• Early Winter and the sojourn of Reputation

• Personal Seasons Calendar

• Touchstones and support systems for navigating energetic environments

Create Your Personal Seasons CalendarIf you want to understand where you are in your own cycle of development and what season you are personally navigating right now, you can create your Personal Seasons Calendar at: atmaitri.com/chartingyourcourse

As we step into a new calendar year, I encourage you to resist the pressure to rush or reinvent yourself. Instead, listen for what is integrating, what is settling, and what is becoming part of who you are.

Chart your own course.
Stay aligned with what is true for you.
And trust the life of your work beyond you.