My wish for you is to deepen your relationship with Nature and the Earth. To experience the ecstasy of life. To do your part. My wish for you is a life of meaning. A life you’re proud of. One you’re excited to wake up for.

My wish for you is to use this book to grow your business to the next level. To connect with your wildness and creativity. To clearly see your path forward. My wish for you is to make so much money that you have a seat at the table. That you can afford the best, circulate money, and pay the people who support you and your business extremely well.

As we label parts of life—parts of ourselves—as profane, as shame-worthy, we flush it away. And we drastically limit our capacity to grow and flourish. It’s when we open up to the messy bits—our fucked-upness—that we become our whole selves. And our whole selves are the selves (and the salve) that will bring us the most pleasurable life. Our whole

Dirty alchemy is recognizing that the most important things to us may be off-putting to society. Look at dirt. It’s a basic need for life on this planet. We need it to grow food. So are the millions of organisms and microorganisms in it that support growth and food production. Dirt is sacred. But dirty is profane. We use it to mark inappropriate

Did you really think that stuffing, locking, and starving would work?

I named my business Dirty Alchemy. But what is Dirty Alchemy? It’s the magic of diving into the taboo. The rejected, the once sacred. It’s revealing the parts of yourself that are hidden from yourself. And healing through the acceptance and celebration of that which is stuffed down, locked away, and starved.

This book isn’t linear. It’s like my brain. It weaves and is knitted together.

This book is for all you spiritual weirdo entrepreneurs and creatives who know the power of magic. You know you have the power to craft your life but are low-level disgusted by all the manifestation teachers on the Internet who are slinging designer bags and luxury cars. You want it all. But NOT that.

It teaches us how to reflect the cycles and seasons of nature in our businesses so that we have sustainable access to our deepest creativity.