Beyond the Newsletter: The Conversation I Wish I’d Had My conversation with Petr LightBear on the Spiritual Teachers Podcast—and what curiosity has taught me since. 🔷 Curiosity I recently had the opportunity to join Petr LightBear on the Spiritual Teachers Podcast to talk about my book, Curiosity to Creation, and the idea of reclaiming our personal power through curiosity and permission. Looking back at that conversation, there’s something I wish I’d given myself more permission to share. I...
3 days ago • 4 min read
NL Post #19 — Actions Define Family, Not the Word Itself Sometimes walking away is how we reclaim ourselves Words can create the illusion of belonging. Actions reveal whether it’s real. One thing I’ve learned over the years much of it through my military service is this: When someone, repeatedly uses words like family, brotherhood, or camaraderie to demand your loyalty... Run. Fucking RUN. Because real family doesn’t need to constantly remind you that you’re family. Real brotherhood is...
5 days ago • 2 min read
NL Post #18 Fear can speak but it doesn’t have to make your choices. Fear speaks, Curiosity questions. “Curiosity is the compass. When fear keeps you stuck, use it to find your next step.” — Justin Charles Allman Fear doesn’t always show up loudly. Sometimes it sounds intelligent. Rational. Responsible. It gives us a hundred reasons why we should wait, stay where we are, avoid the risk, or choose what feels familiar. Maybe now isn’t the right time. What if this doesn’t work? What will people...
12 days ago • 4 min read
NL Post #17 — Our Differences Aren’t Flaws in Humanity. Resistance surfaces the moment you break the script and stand in your power Imagine living in a world where everyone shared the same thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires, and ambitions. Nobody stood out from the crowd. We were all conditioned to follow the same script, and questioning the constructs humanity had created was something to avoid. What kind of world would that be? On the surface, maybe it sounds peaceful. No polarity. No...
19 days ago • 3 min read
NL Post # — 16 When Did You Learn to Dim Your Light? The world doesn't need a smaller version of you. it needs a version of you willing to express what's already within you There is a strange thing that happens as we move through life. We learn how to adjust. Not necessarily because someone sits us down and tells us to become less of ourselves. It happens much more subtly than that. We notice which parts of ourselves receive approval and which ones make people uncomfortable. We learn when to...
26 days ago • 4 min read
NL Post #15 — When the Life You’ve Built No Longer Speaks to Your Heart Success is not living someone else's dream. It is creating a life that's uniquely yours There comes a strange point in life when you can look around at everything you’ve built and realize that something no longer fits. It doesn’t necessarily mean the life you created was wrong. In fact, that can be what makes the realization so confusing. Some of the things surrounding you today may have once been things you desperately...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
NL Post # 14 — Anomaly in the System Creating your own path begins with questioning the one you’re expected to follow. What happens when your “no” interrupts someone else’s expectations? Recently, I was reading The Power of a Positive No by William Ury, and it brought something into focus for me. I’ve never really had a problem saying no, speaking my truth, or establishing boundaries. What caught my attention was thinking about what happens afterward, when someone hears your answer and...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
NL Post # 13 — Two Stories Can Be True at the Same Time Permission to tell the story behind the creation My name is Justin Charles Allman, and I’m the author of Curiosity to Creation. And I fucking hate my book. There. I said it. Not my work. Not my message. Not my philosophy. I believe deeply in all of those things. I’ve watched people read the book, underline passages, share their stories with me, and tell me that something I wrote gave them permission to make a change in their own lives. I...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
NL # 12 - Sometimes the most meaningful part of creation begins when we finally let go of what we created. Curiosity is the Birth of Creation There’s something exciting about letting go. Not giving up. Not walking away. Simply trusting that something you created may find the person who needs it—even if you never get to witness the moment it happens. Recently, I placed a copy of Curiosity to Creation inside a Little Free Library. There was no marketing strategy behind it. No expectation of a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
NL # 11 - Curiosity Reveals. Reflection Refines. Creation Expresses. Curiosity opens your heart to answer Sometimes, the answers we are searching for are already within us. They are simply buried beneath fear, expectations, old beliefs, and the noise of everyday life. Curiosity helps us uncover them. 🔸 Curiosity reveals. Curiosity brings our hidden thoughts, desires, fears, and possibilities to the surface. It asks: Why does this matter to me? What am I really feeling? What else could be...
2 months ago • 1 min read