In this powerful episode of The Christel Crawford Show, I get to speak with my business coach and founder of Modern Maker, Jacob Pegs, who reveals the untold truth about the cost of his success and the secrets to his rebirth.

From burnout to breakthrough, Jacob takes us on a raw and vulnerable journey of how he went from hustling to creating a life and business that truly aligns with his values.

Some of the key bits:

→ The Price of Hustle: Jacob opens up about the extreme stress he experienced while building his business and how it nearly cost him his health and relationships.

→ The Moment of Clarity: Learn about the pivotal moment that made Jacob realize that chasing money just for the sake of it was unsustainable—and how it led him to redefine his approach to work and life completely.

→ Aligning with Your True Purpose: Jacob shares how he went from corporate grind to entrepreneurship by following his creative passions and embracing alignment over profits.

→ Breaking Free from the "Money Trap": Discover how Jacob shifted from being controlled by money to using it as a tool for freedom, happiness, and meaningful work.

→ Healing Inner Wounds: Jacob talks about confronting his childhood trauma and the role that self-awareness and therapy played in healing his relationship with success and money.

→ Creating a Business by Design: How Jacob went from a thriving web agency to founding Modern Maker, designing a business and life that nourish both his soul and his bank account.

If you're stuck in hustle culture or overwhelmed by the demands of your business, Jacob’s story offers hope and a blueprint for how to step into a more peaceful, aligned, and impactful life.

Resources Mentioned:
Jacob Pegs on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-pegs/
Modern Maker: https://swipemymojo.com/
Follow Jacob on Twitter & Instagram: @mostmojo
Jacob’s Newsletter: https://swipemymojo.com/
A free mini-course on functional consciousness: https://christeljoycrawford.com/

Don’t miss this eye-opening conversation that will challenge how you view success, money, and your purpose in the world.

Less really can be more.

TO CHECK OUT THE SPRINT: christeljoycrawford.com/sprint. In this episode, I reflect on my significant changes in 2024 and explore the process of transforming my life and business in 2025. I emphasize the importance of vision, explaining how a clear long-term vision can guide daily actions and decisions. I draw from my personal experiences and insights from my Access Consciousness era, and discuss the emotional cycle of change, highlighting stages from uninformed optimism to success and fulfillment. At the end, you are invited to join a four-week sprint to define your vision and implement systems to make your dreams a reality. christeljoycrawford.com/sprint 00:00 Introduction: Changing Your Life and Business in 2025 00:20 Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Reinvention 01:29 Building a New Empire: Time Management and Vision 02:49 Creating a Scalable Business Model 03:52 The Power of Vision: A Five-Step Process 06:37 Embracing Aspirational Vision 18:41 Navigating the Emotional Cycle of Change 25:23 Join the Sprint: Implementing Your Vision

Growing a business is the most non-linear experiment on the planet!

Where are you in the process? 😁

-- just starting
-- right in the messy middle
-- on an upswing
-- on a de-escalation
-- building towards a bigger future

There are SO many phases to business, but these tools and this conversation will touch on them ALL.

If you need a deep escalation into some serious (and fun!) Growth Problems, join me for the webinar this week!

You can register here 👉 https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/gettingitright

I'm studying class-growth.

Infinite-being-style class growth.

Energetic class growth. 😁

(Find out more here: christeljoycrawford.com/letsgrow)

I was tapped out for awhile so with me tapping back in, I'm devouring, editing, studying, taking notes on this structure thing.

Why, you ask?

Because I've been in waaaaaaaay too much pain.

And doing WAY too much doing.

Dain was talking today, on the 15 Billion call from last week, about how humanoids don't change anything until they're done suffering.

Um, yes.

So, I'm done suffering. And it turns out, every single thing that I've been suffering with - small classes, happiness levels, money flows - are all symptoms of structure.

Structure limits. Kills. Slows. Creates suffering for unlimited, gigantic infinite beings.

It's exactly like putting a big, huge, mammoth, gigantic being in a tiny, little, itty bitty, smallest ever in life - box.

It hurts.

So. There are a few steps when you want to suffer less.

1. Be willing for it to change no matter what.
2. Use the tools that melt the structures creating it.
3. Teach yourself to create from space.

On Wednesday, we are diving into the willingness and the melting.

And Thursday, in the 14 day series, we're going to talk creation from no-structure. Along with more melting.

✨ Get registered and find all the details here: christeljoycrawford.com/letsgrow

Have you ever dove head first into a tool and discovered how much of YOU you haven't been? 👀

I have really been exploring the tool of destructuring...everything. My body, my money, my relationships, my business...everything. Oof, it isn't always pretty.

What I am finding is me. The me that was under all of the presumptions, assumptions, and judgments.
Oh how I have missed me! 🥰

I am returning to the ease and space of creating with and as energy.
This...this is where all possibilities exist.

I know that I KNOW that what I am here for is to change the world.
Whew! That's sounds simple. 😜

What does that look like?
For me it is about creating shows and classes to invite everyone to creating more possibilities.

If you are also here to change the world by sharing your classes I invite you to join me.
✨Let's destructure, destroy, and uncreate together.
✨Let's explore infinite possibilities together.
✨Let's grow our classes and share our magic, our potency, and our being out into the world.

Join me for the Kick Off Call for Let's Grow Our Classes. 👉 https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/letsgrow
Join me for the series! 👉 https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/gcUoZgwe

Every hard thing in your life is a structure. Every ease is you.

In this episode we:

✨unpack destructuring,
✨look at where we might be doing structure unconsciously
✨start to make space for the ease to show up.

What could destructuring create for you?

And if you want more, join me for one call this Friday!! 👉 https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/q9r6TPat

Who or what would you destructure if you went all-in on you? 😱

Raise your hand if you've been using some energy for structure. :::raises hand:::

Instead of flowing energy into you, have you been maintaining ways of doing things that aren't working that well?

What if you flowed energy into what you want, what you're all about, how you function that is so unique it is a wild invitation to living?

The amount of energy I've been using to hold structures in place (that aren't even mine!) is staggering,

But the gift of awareness is seeing it and making a different choice.

We are taught structure as the only way of creating.

But it is not.

It's the old way.

Structures take all your energy to maintain.

The new way is being you. Spherical awareness and movement. Trusting the energy.

Join me for one- call where we explore this massive thing that could change your entire life. Register here: https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/q9r6TPat

Are you running an internal race you can't explain? 😩

To be the best? To get there?

To get it all right? To be perfect?

To not let anyone get ahead of you? To never be wrong?

But deep down - you feel less than? Not enough? Flawed? Lacking everything good?

Today's key has me by the short and curly's.

When I first read about No Competition, I ignored it completely. For five years, I knew it wasn't relevant for me.

And then, I read it again. It was so my thing that I had discarded it.

I'm getting more awareness all the time of what happened for me in the Latin part of the world. The moment I arrived and everything felt crazy.

One of the keys to freedom?

Don't compete.

There is no one that you can actually compare yourself to, so - be yourself. Enjoy yourself. Receive others. Have allowance.

All easy things to type.

Living them?

To not compete, you have to know that you have value. Know that you're a gift.

If you don't?

You'll
-- need to be right all the time
-- fight for your point of view
-- compare yourself to everyone
-- need to be the best and win at everything you do
-- need to not lose
-- leave the ring when others are around
-- say things like, I could have done that, no problem
-- feel depressed and not want to live (to remove yourself from the game)

And a huge long list of other things.

I have been competing for as long as I can remember. But in the last 3 years, it got exposed. And I raged. Brutal for everyone involved.

Until I chose something else.

I am mastering my own need to be wrong, and would like to invite you along for a very transformative journey.

We start tomorrow! All the details here: https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/4JMzwLWC/checkout

Have you always wanted to change the world? 🤗

Me too.

My mom bought that religion would get us there, and so we did that.

Judgment soup.

I absorbed and excelled.

My mom was harsh. But also gentle. When she was gentle it was sunshine. When she was harsh it was, of course, my fault.

With that as my childhood education, adulthood and relationships were confusing and hard.

I tried to be nice. It didn't work.

I tried to be good. It didn't seem to matter.

I tried to understand. It failed.

I tried to control with feelings. That flopped.

I got icey. That created visible damage.

My mom had shown me that if you have good judgment and judge hard enough, the other person caves.

But no matter what I did, I couldn't be right enough or good enough or judge the other person enough into who I knew they could be. (This would make my life easier, right?)

And my methods weren't things I was proud of, so after, I would always crash.

Which is when I learned that if I would put that energy into myself, it would be different.

I resisted this at first.

How was changing me going to change them? (The only thing I thought mattered.)

Ten years later, I'm only starting to get that changing me isn't even about them.

And, it's not about changing me at all. It's about being me.

Yes, when you become more of you, the people around you change. You're no longer trying to change them. Less fixed judgments, more space and possibility. Anything that can change in that environment, will. Anything that can't, won't. And you won't have to try to do anything.

And that - changes the world.

But, being you gives you the fortune of who you truly are. You get to have the richness of your own being.

Is that worth anything?

Join me for this next class: https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/4JMzwLWC/checkout

Structures are brutal.

(Also, check out the new class: https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/4JMzwLWC/checkout)

A quick story 👇

I hurt my knee over the weekend.

It was ouchy AF.

But I - was different.

I cried when I fell because sweet lord - have you ever subluxated your kneecap? It is NOT nice.

But inside I felt - peaceful.

This peace has been very different from the last time my kneecap fell to the side. The first time was in Panama and I was drunk and in a huge reaction. I'd hit Andres with a pillow, mad as hell, and twisted my knee.

And for the next year, my life was very different.

We were living at the beach and I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't work out and I couldn't be happy. I punished myself. Created my own personal little living hell.

I made it very significant. I locked myself in a no-choice universe with everything.

Not my proudest set of choices.

Also, not my most profitable.

It might have been more honest for us to come back to North America after the first month. I knew almost immediately that this wasn't going to work for me. But instead, I stayed in the structure of what we had chosen. If I could get my shit together, we could make this work.

We stayed generally unhappy (with spurts of happiness) for almost 2 years.

Great, eh?

Today, I'm going live about form, structure and significance.

I've made different choices since then.

And even since last week.

I've committed to myself and the system of living that works for me.

And it turns out, that's all it takes.

👉 You're invited to a new class. Get all the details here: https://www.christeljoycrawford.com/offers/4JMzwLWC/checkout