Laura Hanna

You can just ask for things. Ask for the raise. Ask to get the lunch deal past lunchtime. Ask to join the team that you’re not qualified for. What I’ve found is that people will often be happy to give you what you ask for, and even if they don’t, you usually have nothing to lose. Go through life believing that people are inherently generous and that will reflect back to you.

A mandatory part of healing is rebuilding self-trust.

@holisticeric this is high-level healthmaxxing

Nature is amazing. Just Minecrafted myself some birch water. Packed with minerals

@HussainIbarra So cool!!!

A question I get asked the most: "Hussain, how do you build an audience and monetize?" After 22 months, $61,534 in sales, and 84M+ views... It's time I finally showed you how. Introducing my first-ever private community: Passion & Profit. Everything I learned after: • Working with 7-figure mentors • Investing $16,000+ in my business • And years of self-experimentation and trial error I learned that starting a one-person business, using social media as a way to generate traffic, and showcasing your unique personality is the only way to succeed. I've gone ahead and started this community to help you cut through the noise, build an audience faster, and monetize without having to be sleazy. Because I know most of the advice that's on here is BS and misleading. Take the idea of being a reply guy for example... Everyone is commenting, trying to grow their audience, but almost everyone is stuck below 1,000 followers. I'm not trying to make fun of them, because they've just been misled. So instead, I'll share with you everything you need to succeed as a one-person business in 2026. Here are just a few things of what you're getting inside: 1) Personalized Feedback Ask questions and get help solving your biggest business problems so you can move faster, save time, and make more money. 2) Practical Guides Every week, you'll get 2 practical guides to help you position your brand as an authority, 5x your audience growth, consistently create winning offers, and sign clients without having to do any cold DMs. 3) Q&A Calls Get on live calls with other members and me to help you get clarity on what you're trying to do and refine your system. 4) Live Training Calls Live training on personal branding, audience growth, writing, monetization, marketing, sales, and persuasion. These calls will be delivered either by other 6-figure creators or me. 5) Access to all of my templates, workflows, and AI prompts All of my prompts, systems, and frameworks that I usually kept for my high-ticket clients? They're yours now. And to make this all better... Passion & Profit is now on a Founder's price of just $7/month... Yes. $7/month. But here's the thing: Doors close in 4 days. After that, you can't join. Founder's price is gone. And the next time the doors open, the price will be higher. But if you join today, you'll get to lock in the $7. And be immune to future price increases. Want to join? DM me "P&P" I'll send you the details.

@rafdelafuente I pay 5 Euro per loaf here at the organic bakery in Germany when I could just be making it myself instead!!

@rafdelafuente Damn I need to get back on my sourdough game after seeing this. Do you use wheat or spelt? Also I didn't know sourdough brioche was a thing.

Made some fresh regular sourdough loaf & some sourdough brioche 🥖 🍞 Nom nom

@mattizzo Yesterday I contemplated the idea of finding safety in change. Because like you said, we often fear change. But once we truly recognize that change is the only constant in life, I believe we can begin to experience it as a safe space. But like you said, it requires capacity.

Trying to change in ways that feel like too much or are unsustainable can trigger fear Often we retreat back to the comfort of familiar patterns, even if we don’t prefer them, because it feels safer Instant transformation is possible, but only if we have necessary capacity

The moment you allow something to be, it can transmute.

@hephunderground So beautifully written. God, love, boundaries, safety, sobriety, rest, health. You deserve it all, and I'm right there with you.

2026 quarterly reflections: Despite turning 21 in January, this has been the most sober year of my life. I’ve had more spiritual development in the past 3 months than I’ve had in the past 5 years. I finally recognized God’s hand. I am the happiest and most fundamentally at peace I’ve ever been. I am in love for the first time. The people that I interact with on a daily basis are supportive and kind. Ive severed ties with energetic leeches who I’ve only maintained relationships with due to obligation and proximity. The condition of my gut is near perfect, without pharma, after healing from major autoimmune catastrophe for years. I’ve experienced deep nervous system rest and safety for the first time. I engage guiltlessly in hobbies and leisurely activities; playing piano, guitar, journaling, doing crafts, yoga, walking, reading. I’ve genuinely developed a visceral rejection at the core level for external noise and invalid opinions (especially online). I feel whole, coherent, and still. There’s infinite space for improvement, but this year has been transcendental, my best by far. 🩵

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

@ItsKieranDrew Change is the only constant in life. The sooner we find safety in that fact, the faster we will be at peace.

The older I get the more I realise chasing stability is just another way of slowly dying.

@richroll Rich, you sharing your struggles vulnerably and honestly in public, along with the wisdom you gained as a consequence, has always and continues to be a huge inspiration to many. Wishing you continued healing on this undoubtedly extremely challenging chapter.

On May 8, 2025 I underwent spinal fusion surgery, a 6 hour procedure in which I was filleted from front to back. First, my abdomen was opened up so that the surgeon could scrape out the disc between L5 and S1, replacing it with a perforated cage containing bone grafting material that was screwed into my vertebra. Then I was flipped over and opened up on my back so that my surgeon could screw vertical rods into L5 and S1 to secure my spine position to ensure the fusion sets properly. The procedure was successful, correcting 15 years of lower back debilitation due to severe Spondylolisthesis. However, the recovery process demanded I endure far more than I bargained for, debilitating me in ways I thought might handicap me permanently. For the first 3 months I could barely move. For the first six months my activity was limited to walking only. Pain was constant. At nine months I was still in so much discomfort, still so limited in my range of motion, still too unstable to do anything to elevate my heart rate. My weight ballooned. My muscles atrophied. My mood plummeted. And I was becoming resigned to the idea that my athletic identity (let alone performing extreme feats of ultra-endurance) was a thing of the past, a memory well behind me. But very slowly after that I began to turn a corner. At ten months, I finally felt stable enough to resume a very modest non-spine compressing return to fitness exercise regimen. Zone 1 indoor cycling, gentle core work, extremely low weight / high rep resistance training. Proceeding on a ‘less is more’ mandate in late November (which demands discipline for someone like myself prone to taking everything to the extreme, I just showed up every single morning to do what I could, and stop well before doing more than I should. Today I am down 35 pounds from November (207 to 171) including a body fat reduction from 20% to 11%. More importantly, I am beginning to feel like myself again. Grateful and hopeful. I still have a long way to go—it takes 12-18 months for the fusion to fully set. My surgeon was not optimistic that I will be able to run again. Time will tell of course, but I’m confident that provided I continue to proceed patiently that I have a future in which running can become part of my new reality. Towards that end I have a goal—which is to celebrate my 60th birthday this Fall by participating in the NYC Marathon. But here’s the thing. I’m not trying to return to who I once was. I’ve leaned into the stillness this experience has demanded of me to become someone new and better. I am posting this story not for external validation but rather to say that change is always possible. And the way to do it is the same way I have navigated every one of my many life transformations, from alcoholism to sobriety, from sedentary to middle aged ultra endurance athlete, and from a corporate lawyer career to becoming an author and podcaster: getting sober and staying sober: by taking contrary action consistently and religiously—one day at a time. As Chris Paul said on my podcast, “keep stacking days.” And remember, every obstacle life presents you is simply an opportunity custom-designed for your growth and evolution.

Most "mental illness" is actually nervous system dysregulation. We're medicating natural stress responses instead of healing the underlying cause of the stress response.

@kimianora Yeah... it's actually fucked. This was exactly the case for me. Luckily I never got on the meds no matter how much my therapist told me they would help.

@brianmaierhofer why did nobody tell me this 10 years ago when I had affirmations glued all over my mirror and read self-help books like a maniac, tracked all my habits, while still believing I was an emotionally cold person. lol now I cry alllll the time from somatic practices. it's so healing.

One genuine emotional release will surpass 100 positive affirmations. One hour of somatic practice will outperform 50 hours of reading about mindset. One moment of self-forgiveness will outweigh 1,000 self-improvement strategies.

@jackmoses777 Your own body is the first temple for prayer.

The most powerful way to transcend limitations is through prayer. It has nothing to do with religion. Prayer is a metaphysical practice that attunes you to the divine source and Christ Consciousness within you. It grants you sovereign power to cast out worries, illness, and entities whenever you wish — so long as you truly have complete faith in what you are doing, and are absolutely convicted in it working. You do not need a church, a temple, a mosque, or a sanctuary to pray. You also do not need a teacher, a guru, or a law to follow. All you have to do is go within to the deepest part of you and ask for what you need from a place of knowingness that you are one with God.

@GorillaDolphin @niroshajmurugan beautifully said

@niroshajmurugan @Thereallauster I suspect these are highly related In that what we tend to mean by meaning is frame changing And our embodiment is our self frame from which we generate presence As a stable inner frame from which we can be changed from through further meaning Translation between body & mind

No knowledge is useful if it cannot be embodied and integrated.

Practicing breathwork or meditation can actually increase freeze states in some people. Don't listen to "experts" who promote the same techniques to everyone but don't understand your particular nervous system state.