I first met Sage at a mutual friend’s home in May of 2011. I was fresh off my healing time in MI and feeling more amazing than I ever had in my life up until that point. I was at my friend’s place, enters Sage. You do not forget Sage after you meet her. She is beautiful, vibrant, poised, and her spirit fills a room immediately. Upon learning of her film-making profession, we began talking about her L.A. experiences I have always been fascinated by film & Hollywood so when I meet anyone that has pursued their dream all the way to L.A., I listen in awe. I sincerely do – I think actors are the bravest folks in the world!
Among other things, Sage mentioned her best friend out there – a woman with whom she worked for the 7 years she was acting. About 10 minutes later, somewhat randomly, (which, of course I don’t believe in) I bring up this amazing documentary film that I had seen back in February in MI. It was called Hood to Coast and I had thoroughly enjoyed it. As I am raving, she exclaims, ‘No way! My friend and her husband did that film.’ I said, ‘What?!’.
Sage’s best L.A. friend of 7 years…she just happened to have made this low-budget, documentary film that I just happened to have seen on the ONE night it was being shown in theaters nationwide and that I just happened to bring up in conversation during our very first meeting! It was then that I KNEW. I didn’t know what I knew because I had just been introduced to this new Game. But I knew enough to know that THAT was no coincidence. I kept her business card in my wallet “actively”, knowing it wasn’t going to be long until the universe revealed to us why our paths had crossed so not-accidentally.
Fast forward to my arrival back to town 3 months ago. I see Sage regularly and discover, not surprisingly, huge similarities in our values, our energies, and our beliefs. Specifically, in these two areas: 1) Our desire to tell stories and the belief in their power to effect change; and 2) Our mutual desire to make significant changes out in the world.
One night, Sage was expressing her feelings regarding a news story. I don’t remember the particulars other than it involved women in a foreign country being horribly taken advantage of and/or abused (pretty much interject any one of a dozen countries, I am sure). She was genuinely and noticeably frustrated and upset that she didn’t have more power to do something to address the issue. It was likely on this night that I knew she would be one of the first recipients. Of course, this wasn’t conscious yet but in retrospect, I’m fairly certain the deal was sealed in my heart that night.
Sage is married to an amazing guy named Grady, who I just met for the first time this past fall. Together they own & operate a film studio here in town. You will see on our new Investments web page (launching any day now), how prolific their work is. They create films and videos end-to-end. They are quite literally a super couple. Incredibly talented, beautifully matched, and living large portions of their life in love.
This is a very subjective thing…this energy scouting I am doing. I have another member of the Dream Team that you will be meeting soon…my #1…Nicole. She too is very gifted at sensing who is “ready” and to what to extent. While I always have the final say in who is receiving money from Alyson Irene Noune, LLC, right now, Nicole’s input is highly valued and influential in my decision-making process.
Nicole has been close friends with Sage & Grady for years. I have 100% complete trust in her. She has complete trust in them. Good for me. And when combined with my own knowledge & experience with Sage & Grady, they were an obvious choice. I was thrilled to give them the news last Sunday night that I was interested in investing in them with my first round of pay-it-forward gifts. Sage has been on fire ever since and we are only just beginning. Just wait!
By the way, in case it hasn’t become apparent, trust is a HUGE value in this new Game. Without it, you will not be able to play very well. It is time, though. It is time for us to begin to trust one another again. You will be rewarded – in so very many ways – if you can allow yourself to believe in the goodness of people again. Begin small. Begin with who you know. I promise it is not nearly as scary as you think. And you will feel it…that spark of inspiration. I guarantee it! Guarantee it!
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Somewhere in the sky of the United States
Nicole…a.k.a., my #1, a.k.a., my webmaster, a.k.a., my mission controller. Quite simply, I would not be where I am today without her. No way. No how. It has been a relationship unlike any other I’ve had, to be sure. We connect on so many of the heady, intellectual interpretations of the times, which are inherently complex. However, the friendship we have is one of the simplest & most beautiful of my life.
This has been an incredible journey for me with Nicole. We first met as a result of Harvest Cycle – Take 1. My brother’s creation in early 2008 with Nicole highly integral in the project as the all-important web designer. In this case, literally ALL important – without the web, Drew had no business. As a late-entry to the venture, I met Nicole one weekend while down from Tampa. The thing I remembered most was that she was cooking falafel, a favorite of mine growing up with our Middle-Eastern background. She was quiet. More so, as I would learn, while in the presence of the often over-powering Noune energies – especially mine and Drew’s – again, both Sagittarius fires to the core.
When Drew parted ways with me and Harvest Cycle is when I had the opportunity to really begin to get to know Nicole. Our relationship was founded on the business and continued to exist centered around it simply because I was in survival mode. I was working 80+ hours a week between 3 jobs, one of which this little company of mine, Harvest Cycle. Nicole observed the about-to-burst Alyson of 2008-2010 and was unbelievable as she delicately handled my craziness. And as someone who worked very closely with my brother, she and I had a very, very strong connection.
Our paths were not crossing accidentally. Those days were most certainly the foundation for what we have created today. When I lived here in Sarasota the first time, Nicole, was second only to Julia in terms of aiding me in my impending darkness. She knew that despite what I was showing on the outside (that I had everything in control) that I was screaming to be allowed to unglue. She knew how much I just needed to relax and have fun. But she also knew I had a good deal of healing to do before I’d be ready to really enjoy living my life. Here we are…all healed and so ready to have fun!!
The creative brainstorming sessions that I’ve had with Nicole have been some of the highlights of this part of the journey. She is extremely talented in all aspects of marketing and has perspectives that span the gamut. She has the best taste in films, TV programs, and music and knows how to weave ’em all together mixed in with a little social commentary, and just enough wit and humor. She is truly brilliant.
While enrolled at New College, she was a math/physics major. Her analytical and scientific capabilities are astounding. She is a wizard of the web – a true wizard. Able to have a dozen screens playing and going, people around her carrying on conversations & she is tracking it all. She has operated her own web development company for over 6 years now and her work, including everything from code to design to marketing, is extremely undervalued. She was the sole reason Harvest Cycle was picked up by the New York Times prior to us even beginning official operations. Her search engine maximization skills on the back-end of websites is practically unmatchable. A truly gifted friend.
Her cooking abilitieis are the newest of skills revealed. We have embarked on Harvest Cycle: Raw and Nicole has been serving as head chef. Many of her web clients are restaurants and as such, food porn, as she call it, is a speciality of hers. She has a keen taste & eye for food, its preparation, and its presentation. I think we are going to see another side of her emerge as this opportunity looks to grow quickly.
Nicole has an incredible ability to read people and their energies. She is wicked intelligent, extremely caring, and very worldly. She has extremely strong opinions and profound insight but she doesn’t need to be the dominant voice in the room. And more impressively, she has this uncanny ability to help extremely bright individuals channel their gifts. She attracts the most interesting, accomplished, well-traveled, eclectic, beautiful, talented, and spirited souls. And she attracts a LOT of them. The Law of Attraction is at work in all of our lives and quite simply, states that we attract what we put out in terms of our energy. Nicole attracts individuals with these characteristics because she possesses them herself. She is an extremely bright light that has been guiding others for many years.
You see, here is the most amazing thing about her. She allows all of the beautiful details of her life to take a distant 2nd to what is going on outside of her. She plays this role in all of our lives. When you are with Nicole, it’s as if you are granted this cosmic permission to be completely you, unload however you need to unload, and she just observes and takes it all in. You always leave Nicole emotionally lighter than when you arrive to her. A healer in the most powerful of ways – working without you having any clue she is doing so.
She is one of the biggest connectors in this bridge we are building from old to new. Her network of friends spans countries not just the U.S. She is absolutely meant to be out there connecting all of these friends. Hearing and learning of visions that align. My company’s work is getting people together who share visions in order to help facilitate the manifestation of said vision. Nicole is my top energy scout indeed. She has been listening to me incessantly now for 3 months – she gets it. We will all be served when she has the ability to apply these new, more formalized energy-reading skills. We are ready to scout for the next tier of investment projects in our little world right now. For the foreseeable future, Nicole will be my primary advisor on the investing decisions I make with the company funds.
Personally, Nicole has seen parts of me that no one has seen. She has been there every step of the way as I’ve tried to channel the energy of this dream coming true. At times, that has meant being by my side for intense, dark hours as those old story beliefs held on right until they didn’t. So far in my life, no one has been able to take that from me. No one. Not to that extent. Because there is nothing I feel I need to hide from Nicole. She knows everything. She has seen the depths of me especially given the extremely personal nature of my company. No one up until now in my adult life has been able to handle where I’ve allowed myself to go with her. It gets too intense for most and in some way, everyone else has pushed back when I’ve gotten to a certain extent. With Nicole, she just let me keep going, which is what I needed to do in order for this vision to come to fruition.
I needed enough validation from someone who maybe didn’t yet understand what the hell I was trying to say but who got it enough and knew me well enough to let me keep going. She let me keep going. THAT is what I had been searching for – the person with whom I could share this entire crazy, world-changing, utopian, idealistic, vision. And…hers was an opinion that I valued…a lot! She is one bad-ass woman still waiting to come fully into her own. Her supporting me was no minor thing at all. She filled the most important role of my life thus far! Our souls were absolutely meant to connect at this exact time in this exact manner. I am extremely fortunate…extremely lucky to have her in my life.
I haven’t trusted a lot in my life. But in this new-Game it is all about love and trust. And expanding your definitions for both. I used to believe only two types of love existed – family love & romantic love. Crazy, I know. There is truly only one love. We have different energetic attractions to people in our world. And if we can allow ourselves to cease with all the labels and just let the energies interact, we would truly see the beauty of life and the ease with which it can be led.
I wasn’t even this trusting when I was married to my ex-husband. The relationship I have with Nicole is is the most trusting relationship I’ve ever had and it scared me a bit last week. Old belief patterns hold on to dear life. She knows everything and we are about to change the world. As much as we say we are ready and prepared, can you ever be for something like that? Like I said, I’ve never had a relationship like this one in my life. I am so grateful I was able to grow to such extents and to do so with this particular friend in these particular circumstances.
Nicole, I hope you know I do not take you for granted a single day. I know what you have done for me and my dream. It has been simply beautiful and it is hard to believe that we are only beginning. I cannot wait to see what all we are going to continue to create. I am finally ready to have some fun! My kind of fun…changing the world fun!! Thank you. Thank you very much! I love and trust you with my life. And we are ready!
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Introducing the Dream Team – (and Calling MANY Others)
Through experience, observation, and analyzing of the past 30 months, I have identified what I believe to be the absolute key indicator of those most ready to take full advantage of the energy of the times in which we are living. Those individuals who will obtain the most bang for the buck. Those, who in my personal assessment, are equipped to most efficiently spread the Light. And make no mistake…that is the goal here. To live the Light, spread the Light, and be the Light.
What does that mean exactly? To live your life according to your heart. You cannot go wrong with love. Not in the new Game. Remember…in the new paradigm, Love is the New Currency – thank you Linda Commito. Love and all those other awesome happy, freeing feelings like trust, gratitude, appreciation, cooperation, and forgiveness. The more of these ladies you are experiencing in your day-to-day, the more powerful you are. These are the most mighty & influential energies in the world right now…it is a universal fact & the key indicator.
Throughout the upcoming blog posts, I will be revealing a total of 6 distinct, new-paradigm, for-profit business conjectures. The first is below.
Radical Conjecture #1 – It is All About the Energy
My company, which is, and always will be, only me, is all about the energy. Our energy is what brings us value – to ourselves and to others. In the past 30 months, I have discovered that when you reverse ANY negative energy and replace it with ANY positive energy, ridiculously positive things happen – disproportionately in favor of the “better”! Taking away 10% of negative produces FAR more than a 10% return on the positive – the power is magnified exponentially!! Among many other things, I will prove this financially in the next 6 months.
It is all about the energy. More specifically, it is about the positive energy. And to be even more specific…it is about love. Those most effective in the new Game are those who are able and/or who choose to spend the most waking time as possible engaged in activities they want to be doing and that they truly love. Likewise, those who are interacting & working with people that they love & want to be with are particularly qualified in the new Game. For example, an artist working 40 hours a week supporting herself doing what she loves is expending her energy more effectively than a businesswoman working 40 hours a week at a job she despises. Those are the work extremes and we all exist somewhere on that spectrum.
Our energy outside of work matters tremendously too. How happy are you when you aren’t busied by your job? Or, if you are a housewife/househusband, how happy are you working this 24/7 job? Again, those who are happier in their personal lives are also significantly more capable at spreading the light – efficient energy spreading is the underlying goal.
Pretty rare, but do you know that there are people out there who fit this profile in BOTH areas of their life? It may not be clear yet, but rest assured, that would be a pretty potent spirit. And if we could find such specimens of happy-living, energetic people, what if I told you there was a way to increase their potency…infinitely?
Say perhaps, investing in them in a way they have never before had someone demonstrate belief in them. The goal being two-fold: 1) To inspire them to begin to believe that they are very quickly going to be standing in the same role in someone else’s life. Because there exists only one condition…to pay it forward. No paybacks. None. This is an investment in them that is done truly, 100% with no expectation of anything in return. And 2) To give them the one thing missing from allowing them to REALLY have the effect in the world they are aiming for. They are walking their walk as much as they practically can – i.e. bills still must be paid. What if there was a way to somehow ease that wasted, worry energy being expended by these very powerful souls so that instead, they could focus all their super power in their lives of love? Well…I found the way. Specifics are coming henceforth.
I met more individuals in the city of Sarasota when I first moved here in 2008 that were living & loving their lives than I ever imagined existed. It was insane! Not surprisingly, they were happier than most everyone from my previous “mainstream” life. There are MANY powerful souls here in this city. A ton of them! And there are hundreds more one degree from me in my massive network. Some are you are ready. Some are not. In addition to the above, what are the other readiness indicators? Self-acceptance, self-love, & self-awareness.
If you don’t believe in you, my belief in you won’t make the difference you have been seeking. My belief in you can help. And I can help in many other ways. However, at this stage, anyone on my potential recipient list for money must possess solid belief in her/himself. I’m not saying 100%…I will be helping to encourage ALL of us to get to that point, but that isn’t “required”. I can’t give you a number…it isn’t a number…it is a feeling. You can feel it & observe it when people have this self-confidence and when they don’t, you can most certainly feel that too.
The money side of the investing…this is about getting the most positive energetic return on the dollar. Our world is long overdue for some much-needed light. It seems wise to be efficient. There is indeed a lot of dark but we have 7 billion light switches. We just need to get flippin’. I’m switching the lights on that I believe to be the most efficient because in the new paradigm, the quickest way to affect change is through love. This is what I am going to prove to you over the next 5 months. Nothing can match the fuel of love. But, in the old-paradigm, the quickest way to do anything is with money. So what happens when you combine the two? As the light-spreading, bridge-building project leader, I plan to show you.
I have a list of dozens and dozens of potential players as I’ve been consciously & subconsciously recruiting long before I came back to Sarasota 3 months ago. I’ve known for 19 months that eventually I would be where I find myself today, but I never would have imagined it could have happened so quickly. With a discovery on Friday, January 11th all the pieces fell into place. That night I found out that it was time to answer the question ‘Who can I invest in that I believe will be the most likely to become their own millionaire and then continue to pay it forward to their entire network?’ That night became draft night for my first team. Seeing as they are now very much a part of making my dream come true (simply by continuing to live their lives exactly as before), they are indeed, very literally, my Dream Team!!
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Dedicated to: the greatest coach ever, my Michigan Hall-of-Fame, Plymouth-Canton high school basketball coach, Bob Blohm. This man created a basketball program far surpassing the game of basketball. Through and through, he built a program of love. It was fueled by two, huge loves in his world – that for basketball and that for his wife, Wendy. They were this power couple of love & given they were spreading it through a sport, that love reached THOUSANDS!! They changed the lives of THOUSANDS of students – dramatically and positively! Bob & Wendy didn’t have kids of their own so we were very much like their children. And they were, without a doubt, very much like parents to us all. The love surrounding every part of that world saved my life in high school. It literally saved my life. I lived not for that program but for those people & that love. No way we are not all meant to do something in this world together as adults…no way! I don’t know what it is yet, Blohm, but it will reveal itself. No doubt! Thank you from the depths of my soul for creating the experiences that gave me my foundation for unconditional love. I am grateful beyond words. I love you & Wendy so very much and will see you next month in Detroit.
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Very recently, a close friend of mine would often ask me this. Because as you all know, I talk…a lot…a lot a lot. I would do as I do…and when you talk as much as I do, statistically speaking, at least one profound thing will come out of my mouth in any given few-hour period. I would quickly come and go from that one statement and she would immediately stop me. And she would ask…”Do you listen to yourself?” And she would look at the look on my face and say again…”Do YOU listen to yourself?”
To this friend, if she is reading…I am now.
Those Dream Team posts…those were just as much written to myself as they were to any other single person out there. These past two weeks, I am simply giving myself pep talks through my own posts. I don’t know and I don’t care how that may or may not sound. I am aspiring every day to follow the 4 Rules to a tee but I still fall short. I have been falling short this past week, especially. I know this is happening because I am about to open myself up to an entirely new level of … opinion. And truth be told…I am once again scared shitless. I do believe in every single thing I am doing, every single thing that I have done, and every single thing I plan to do. I do believe it 100% to my core. I know I am going to make this dream come true one way or another. Yet…I am terrified.
So, again, I answer my friend’s voice in my head…yes, I am listening to myself. I am reading my words. I am seeing all the incredible beauty that has happened up until and including this point. I am remembering that it is absolutely about the journey. I am singing. I am dancing. I am jump-roping. I am getting back to taking care of me. I am feeling 100% gratitude for this new, incredible opportunity for all of our plans! This is awesome news!
It is almost time to put away the words. It is time to create beyond the words. It is time to do so with some of the most amazing people in my life right now. And it is time to SHOW the world what all of “this” is about. Just show them, Alyson. Just show them!! Trust and show them. You can do it. It is just an idea. It is just your take on all of this down here. Listen to yourself. Believe in yourself. And trust…trust the leader…trust your heart.
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