If you're walking the path of a healer, teacher, or guide—especially without formal initiation, mentorship, or lineage—this question matters: Why do you want to help others?

In this episode, I explore the deeper motivations behind our desire to hold space and offer support. Not to shame or question the impulse to serve, but to get honest about what's really driving it. Because without elders to check our readiness or shape our path, we have to learn how to do that for ourselves.

This is a conversation about calling, compensation, emotional entanglement, and the quiet responsibility of knowing you’re here to serve—but needing to do it from a place of clarity, not performance.

We start with the question that sits beneath all the others: for what purpose are you doing this work?1