Congruence in action

Jenni Gritters
6 min readAug 16, 2024

One night, I pulled a card from The Rose Oracle, one of my favorite decks, called Temple of the Rose. It’s a message to deeply trust and heal the sacred thread of the feminine by expressing your truth. The card’s description literally said, “Sing the song you came here to sing. This is how you reclaim your power.”

So here’s my truth:

A few months ago, I decided to pull back on my spring mastermind group, The [Sustainable] Scale Club. For weeks — months, really — I’d been nauseously going back and forth about what this program should be. I’d shuffled through about 10 different names and set ups. Most business coaches have high-ticket mastermind groups, which bring in the majority of their revenue. It’s a way to build community, connect with people one-on-month and offer trainings to a group, which takes up less time. Basically, masterminds are scalable. I’d looked at dozens of examples, trying to figure out how to replicate them in my own world.

Even as I landed on The [Sustainable] Scale Club, my gut kept telling me the whole thing was wrong — but I chalked it up to the fear of doing something new and pushing myself to a new edge. Even as I soft-launched the offering to my community, I felt like something was weird. After a long discussion with my own coach, I pulled back on the program’s scale, making it simpler, wondering if my subconscious was wary of over-giving during this season of intense parenting — but the misaligned feeling remained. Then I asked my own mastermind group to weigh in on the messaging. I drafted…

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Jenni Gritters
Jenni Gritters

Written by Jenni Gritters

I’m a writer and business coach for freelance creatives based in Central Oregon. I write about the psychology of small business ownership.