The Rebel Onion Featured The Transmission Layer: You Have a Calling. You Don't Have a Crown. #68 You have a calling, not a crown. Week 68 explores retiring Campbell’s hero trap, stepping into Michael Meade’s Genius Myth, Dr. Larry Goodman’s lessons on the master signal, and why owning your specific role is what actually makes the work move forward.
The Rebel Onion Featured The Hollow Layer: Why Emptiness Is What Lets Something Through #67 Useful space lives in the hollow. Week 67 explores Lao Tzu’s wisdom, reclaiming your inner kingdom, Dr. Larry Goodman’s critique of the "shoulds," and Dr. Wayne Dyer’s lessons on clearing out the noise so what actually belongs can enter.
The Rebel Onion The Conduit Layer: You Are the Channel, Not the Signal #66 You are the channel, not the signal. Week 66 breaks down why your best creations feel unexplainable, Elizabeth Gilbert’s lessons from Big Magic, Dr. Larry Goodman’s "Big Kahuna" moment, and how to stay open to what’s coming through.
Follow The Lean The Tropism Layer: What You Called a Distraction Was the Signal #65 The lean isn't laziness or procrastination—it's data. Week 65 explores following your internal signal, reframing "chance" occurrences through the lens of divine choreography, and realizing the audience you thought was missing was listening the entire time.
Photosynthesis The Photosynthesis Layer: Stop Storing. Start Converting. #64 Stop storing. Start converting. Week 64 explores moving from underground root-work to active photosynthesis—focusing on present light, clearing out the pantry, trusting the process, and turning raw experience into immediate fuel.
Rising out of Hermit Mode The Root-Gift Layer: The Deep Ones Feed the Field by Habit #63 Staying underground stops being preparation and starts being a comfortable place to hide. Week 63 breaks down the shift from hermit mode to touching air, taking back your own best root-energy, Robin Wall Kimmerer's law of reciprocity, and stepping into the open.
Surrender The Surrender Layer: Stop Fighting the Current. #62 When you stop fighting the current, the giants stop looking like obstacles and start revealing your path. Week 62 breaks down surrender, leading with love over lectures, and finding purpose in the flow of life.
The Rebel Onion The Soil Layer: You Can't Grow in a Hall of Mirrors. #61 Stop chasing glossy reflections. Week 61 breaks down the hall of mirrors trap, Parker Palmer's 'Let Your Life Speak,' Dr. Goodman's take on discernment, and a wild 'God-instance' at a neighborhood park. Plus, the hand-carved AI pipeline behind 'The House of Mirrors.'
The Rebel Onion The Reaching Layer: The Mirror or the Sun. #60 I cross the same bridge as billionaires, but the drive home isn't about looking rich—it's about who you become. Week 60 breaks down the proximity trap, Dr. Goodman's warning, Parker Palmer's 'Let Your Life Speak,' and the hand-carved AI pipeline behind 'The Drive Home.'
Leveling Up The Surface Layer: Break Through. No Instructions. Just a Reason. #59 In Week 59, we hit the surface layer. We break down why the next peak comes with no instructions, Dr. Goodman’s blueprint for dropping the doubt with your son in your lap, Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, and how a blank map forces you to build your own path forward.
Personal Growth The Infinite Layer: The Peeling Was Never the Point. #58 In Week 58, the deep peeling inverts outward. We break down why the peeling was never the point, Dr. Goodman's blueprint for creating an "unfair advantage" through listening, John Daido Loori’s The Zen of Creativity, and why it's time to stop digging and start launching.
The Rebel Onion The Depth Layer: The Struggle Was a Story. Not a Law. #57 Reveals why the deepest layer of healing can turn into hiding. We break down the 40-year script that struggle is the price of admission, issue a raw apology to money, look at Bob Dylan’s creative shift via Dr. Goodman, and map out Ayn Rand’s antidote to unearned guilt. 🧅
The Rebel Onion The Renewal Layer: The Rabbit Was Never the Point #56 Week 56 reveals that the race was never about catching the rabbit—it's about the run. Dr. Goodman explores outcomes vs. process, Coach Bill Walsh reveals his machine blueprint, Peter Sage drops a classic lesson, and we break down how the new video art was hand-carved. 🧅
Personal Growth The Cultivation Layer: You Have Enough. Now Use It. #55 Week 55 shifts us from growing by accident to cultivating by choice. We stop chasing tools and trust what is already planted. By shifting our inner lens from wounded to conscious, we drop the clutter of avoidance, build on our real experience, and move forward in action. 🧅
The Rebel Onion The Essence Layer: Less Everything. More You. #54 Week 54 marks a pivot into our concentrated essence. Reduce down to our true nature, choosing a creative path over inherited legacies. Through essentialism, cut clutter, use our defiance as fuel to erase financial anxiety, & build what remains in raw vulnerability.
The Rebel Onion The Integration Layer - All the Gears. One Mechanism. #53 You are not a collection of broken parts; you are a mechanism. Week 53 explores why integration isn't about perfect harmony, but the honest coexistence of every gear you've forged and inherited. Stop trying to fix what isn't broken. Adjust the alignment and let the watch tell time. 🧅
The Rebel Onion The Inheritance Layer - The Decision Is the Legacy #52 One full year. What was this really for? Week 52 audits the "Inheritance Layer"—tearing down the myth of the final destination. From Dr. Goodman's blueprint on parenting to Mitch Albom’s accidental legacy, true arrival is an illusion. Finding yourself doesn't end the work; you just keep chopping. 🧅
The Rebel Onion The Flowering Layer - You Don't Decide to Bloom. You Just Run Out of Reasons Not To. #51 The onion doesn't decide to bloom; it just runs out of reasons not to. The high-pressure threshold between storing energy and releasing it. From conquering inner devils for the next generation to Rick Rubin’s vessel, it’s time to claim the treasure.
The Rebel Onion The Cooking Layer - The Pressure Wasn't Punishment. It Was Preparation. #50 This milestone Peel audits the heat that dissolves our masks to find the authentic core. From Campbell’s "Abyss" to the sharp reflexes of real-time coaching, we explore the Master Reduction: boiling away the performance to reveal the foundation. Still cooking. 🧅
The Rebel Onion The Layered Memory - You Were Never Starting Over. You Were Adding Rings. #49 If each layer of you could speak—not the polished version, but the one underneath—what story would it tell? From reckless midnight bike rides in Miami to the 10,
The Rebel Onion The Tolerance Layer - Not Everything You're Enduring Deserves Your Endurance #48 Are you absorbing the cost of a dissolving system or investing in your own transformation? We’re diving into the "Synthetic Aftertaste" of AI, Dr. Goodman’s grit, and how to stop haunting yourself with optimized noise. It’s time to find your real signal.
The Rebel Onion The Intensity Layer: Stop Protecting the World From the Full Version of You. #47 Stop protecting the world from your power. Inside: Dr. Goodman on the "Competence Trap," Brené Brown’s "Daring Greatly" and the arena of the undefended, plus a Spartan AI cinematic on why being "agreeable" is just a slow way to disappear. Still peeling.
The Rebel Onion The Seasonal Layer — You're Not Behind. You're Just Not Letting Spring Do Its Thing (Maybe) #46 Unpeeling the invisible work of the seasonal layer. Honoring the wait through the lens of the Chinese Farmer and Pressfield’s War of Art. Understanding that maximal evolution occurs at the border of support and challenge. Proper preparation prevents poor performance. Still here. Still planting.
The Rebel Onion The Blueprint Layer — I Drew This in 2011. I Finally Know What It Means. #45 The Blueprint Layer: A deep dive into the 14-year journey from a Post-it note to a 30-page system. This week introduces The Becoming Blueprint—44 transformation layers and the AI prompts to unpeel them. Design Rebel features a 90s-style infomercial on the power of documented transformation.
the-rebel-onion The Division Layer — The AI Data Knows You. Your Gut Knows Better. #44 Explores why the gut beats the data. The LLM Data, AI. The "Being Coached" Layer with Dr. Goodman breaks down the "Magic 8-Ball" and the end of the search. Bookshelf Peeled features Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose! and the strength of the "Scanner" mind.
