https://www.wabycleo.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/quiz-which-un-sustainable-development-goals-are-calling-to-your-vision monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/1773096156667-3L39HY4COG3M8RIVA3UL/unsplash-image-eA32JIBsSu8.jpg The Full Library - Take the Quiz: Which UN Sustainable Development Goals are calling your vision? - Find out more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Now you know where your vision belongs. The world needs you to act on it. In 2025, the United Nations confirmed that not a single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is on track — and the gap is not one that governments can close alone. It will be closed by visionaries like you, and like Nick Loosely of Everybody Eats, who are already building the world the goals describe. The question is no longer which goals call to you. It's what you do next. Hear Nick's story on the Wā Podcast → https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/nick-loosely-creating-health-and-efficiency-in-your-ways-of-working monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/01344168-9c9d-42ac-bfbf-aa558db50b06/YouTube+Thumbnail+-+Nick+Loosely.png The Full Library - Nick Loosely | creating health and efficiency in your ways of working - Watch or listen on your favourite platforms YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/on-signs-symbols-and-everyday-guidance monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/3b5f2ec4-bbd9-4b4a-81a0-105d74fdf5c7/olivier-depaep-VEXAY4rhnPM-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Using Signs for Guidance - Listening For Signs Outside my cabin, there is a familiar visitor. A kingfisher arrives and settles on a branch outside. He sits very still. & then in an instant, he darts away. Over time, I’ve come to experience this bird as a sign that meets me where I am. On the days when I’m impatient to “get there faster”, to force clarity, to make everything happen at once, the kingfisher reminds me: Be patient. Watch carefully. Strike when the time is right. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-daily-visions-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/6f5a2171-3629-4d42-95b4-b3521b0d58ff/ashleigh-joy-photography-nfBhX-G90g0-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - The Daily Visions Ritual - Morning Alignment For Visionaries Each morning, before the world rushes in and before I step into my work, I sit by the window with Yorick. The light is soft. And I’m half asleep. The window is wide open, no matter the season. And I have one of Yorick’s juices. Earthy. Fresh. Alive. We take turns speaking. It doesn’t take long. But by the time we close the window, something inside has opened. We send the kids into the day. We move into our work. But we’ve already aligned with what matters. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/when-independence-softens monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/bbfee4b3-aa2d-46fe-83e9-d80107f9ca8a/joseph-pearson-Uj749Jv6Otw-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - When Independence Softens - Loosening self reliance and inviting in connection Today I’m offering an exploration of inviting help from others. To be still in vulnerability and move out of hyper-independence by showing that you’re in an uncomfortable place and you need support in realising your vision. This ritual is inspired by my experience with my Sydney podcast series and the challenges I faced venturing into a location where I had no connections. I started the Wā Podcast because I wanted to travel the world and connect in person, to really ground my brand in different cultures. But it’s tough when you’re reaching out to people and they don’t know who you are and through this I faced a lot of rejection. 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A decision that feels like it will have ripple effects forward. In these moments, it’s easy to feel consumed by the weight of choice. To believe this moment defines forever. But your 80-year-old self has already lived beyond it knowing what unfolds, what softens, what truly matters. This ritual is how you let your old wise message come through. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/creating-with-purpose-innovation-amp-perseverence monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/e7cb754e-396d-4ee9-94a7-1064468ab360/aaron-burden-NXt5PrOb_7U-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Creating With Purpose & Perseverance - This morning I met with my artist group. Every time I sit with them, I’m reminded why I do the work I enjoy working with visionaries like you. The ones who know life is too short to walk the traditional paths even when those paths come steady with income, title or reputation. For people like us, “more” doesn’t mean more money. It means more truth. More beauty. More community. More mornings when we wake up alive and ready to create something that matters. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-four-walls-of-wellbeing monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/1772873646457-PGSLXIDGR6K0YH4XALKK/Cleo-EDITS-3.jpg The Full Library - The Four Walls of Wellbeing - Te Whare Tapa Whā – Hauora This morning, as I sat down to think about this, a tiny green cricket appeared on the leaf of a plant I have on my desk. It was small, gently swaying, slowly preparing to jump. It felt like a tohu a reminder that wellbeing and abundance often begin in small, almost invisible movements. One tiny movement, one quiet choice, one leaf, one jump. Master Boon refers to Lao Tzu’s quote “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In te ao Māori, hauora (wellbeing) is often described through Te Whare Tapa Whā the four walls of a whare or house. If one wall is weak or neglected, the whole whare feels it. When each wall is tended to, we feel more grounded and plenished. I’m offering a simple way to look at your own whare using four walls: Taha Wairua: Spiritual / Soul wellbeing Taha Tinana: Physical / Body wellbeing Taha Hinengaro: Mind / Emotions wellbeing Taha Whānau: Family / Relationships wellbeing And then a gentle self-check using a Wheel of Life style reflection so you can see where you are now, and what might need care. Each category is invitational, choose the ones that feel aligned for your life and your vision. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-clearing-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/da78921b-73f8-4b8f-b7e4-cebe50d76c40/jess-zoerb-FCSzfjEB87k-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Clearing Creative Stagnancy - There are days when the energy in your home feels heavy, and your inner vision feels just as dim. Mood lingers. Light dulls. Nothing is wrong, but nothing is quite right either. When this happens, I clean. As a way to invite movement where there’s been stillness. To shift the mood not just in the room, but in me. This is a ritual of restoration. Of honouring the home as a living being. Of making space for peace to return. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/what-are-the-un-sustainable-development-goals monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/1773096380869-447S5TB67Q42HC27X7BZ/unsplash-image-pt7QzB4ZLWw.jpg The Full Library - What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals? - Some people see problems. Visionaries see their place within them. In 2015, every nation on earth agreed on something remarkable: a shared blueprint for the future. 193 countries (rich and poor, large and small) signed on to 17 goals designed to transform our world by 2030. They called it the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We know it as the Sustainable Development Goals, or the SDGs. This was a universal call to action: to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people can live with dignity, opportunity, and peace. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/yoricks-jus-de-lgumes monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/5cd1fcf6-964c-4588-85da-f9595cb93d7a/fachy-marin-A5xJay6N_fI-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Visionary Morning Elixir - Yorick’s Jus de Légumes Each morning, as the house begins to stir, you’ll find Yorick in the kitchen. No blender. No rush. Just rhythm. Rinsing roots. Cutting citrus. Stacking colour into the juicer. What pours out is alchemy. A stream of blood-orange brilliance— not quite red, not quite gold— a colour that feels ancient and electric all at once. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/5xjpg2aiwk7ffq8a4dklble10w0o56 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/42ab64ef-801a-49ad-a4ea-74edccd4dcbe/jeppe-h-jensen-b3eaH1hguOA-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - The Visionary Seasonal Check-In - A Ritual For Intentional Living Sometimes it starts as a heaviness. A flatness. Not quite sadness, not quite stuck but… muted. Especially when you’re building, leading, or caring for many people all at once. It’s easy to name it as failure. To assume something is wrong. But often, what is needed is perspective. Because no one area of life can carry the whole weight of your joy. And life isn’t meant to hum at full volume all the time. This ritual is a way to pause. To take stock. To witness what’s unfolding across the full landscape of your life, and remember: there is always something quietly blooming. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/morning-ritual-for-working-parents monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/f6c176d5-f892-40ac-93ea-51a7fa10c812/gaelle-marcel-GaLWM8dX73U-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Morning Ritual For Visionary Parents - The Transition From Cocoon To The Outer World Returning to work after being home with your child is a big change. A parent and a visionary meeting the world again. This ritual is for that crossing. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/what-is-a-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/c3b7f63e-1c4e-45c3-be1b-7608f590cdb8/annie-spratt-OQj0chxpZOI-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - What Is A Ritual? - Intention Practised, Felt And Made Visible A ritual is something you choose to do with your whole presence. It’s how you, as a visionary, bring the unseen into the seen and how we turn the ordinary into something sacred and special. Ritual comes when we slow down enough to mean it. Lighting a candle with breath. Stirring the tea while whispering a wish. Saying aloud our desires. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/changing-again-choosing-differently monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/8a0b7e58-63be-49e1-a25b-42090333513a/javier-allegue-barros-C7B-ExXpOIE-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Permission To Choose Again - Changing Differently On The Visionary Path Choosing again is presence. It is the art of noticing that something has shifted, and honouring it. You are allowed to move in a new direction when new information arrives. When your body says this way now. When your heart softens to another path. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-7-day-love-letter-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/e2d41964-93c7-4639-9d1e-69ed6c3ae77b/huyen-pham--PTlx55R-KU-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Seven Days of Self-Belief - There is a version of you that is already whole. Already radiant. Already worthy. This ritual is about remembering who you already are and learning to love that person more fully every single day. For 7 days, you are invited to write one love letter to yourself each morning. To let beautiful words simmer in the body. A daily act of love The more you trust yourself here, the easier it becomes to back your ideas, transitions, and next-level moves. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-conflict-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/0aff5ac5-2077-4e02-9f72-65a1dfb73fb4/mayur-gala-2PODhmrvLik-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - The Visionary Conflict Ritual - A Practice for Clarity, Courage & Repair For many of us, conflict has felt like danger. Loud voices. Silent treatments. Shaky ground. We have learned to either explode or disappear. To speak too much, or not at all. To hold everything in until it leaks out sideways. But conflict doesn’t have to be harm. It can be healing. When you are bringing new ideas, roles, or ways of working into the world, conflict is inevitable. This ritual helps you meet this with clarity and care. It can be a place where truth meets love; where something new can be built. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/shedding-who-you-were-for-you-to-become monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/a1e2701a-f2c6-496e-9dc1-eaa69f1b4589/nathan-dumlao-ajAj3-55G2A-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Burning The Old Story - Making Space For Who You Are Becoming Sometimes you need to leave parts of yourself behind to go deeper into who you are becoming. The burning ritual is a simple, potent act of shedding. Write down what must be released. All that no longer belongs. Habits. Expectations. Old titles. Roles. Versions of self that once served a purpose but are now standing in the way. Stories inherited or imposed. Voices that have lived too long in the mind. Then burn them. Let the flame consume what has been carried for too long. Let the smoke rise, signalling an unseen shift. Let the ash fall, making way for something new to form. Burning is a reclamation of who you are becoming. Because before anything new can emerge, the space must be cleared. Sometimes, the shift needs to be named aloud. Let others know that something happened and you are changed forever. A turning point. A private reckoning. A decision so deep it rearranged everything. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-worthy-goal-practice monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/9dedc5fb-5c7f-4498-ab4a-5f7143ffc721/isaac-smith-8XlMU62ii8I-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - The Worthy Goal Ritual - Naming the Vision That Calls You Forward Magnetism draws. But direction gives it form. Without a clear goal, your energy can scatter. Whether you are an emerging visionary, a transitioning leader, or an established innovator, a worthy goal focuses your gifts on what matters most. With one, it becomes focused, purposeful, alive. A Worthy Goal is a living invitation to become more of who you truly are. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/magnetism monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/1ace63ff-5786-4fc2-9a03-db15ccd58632/cristian-escobar-abkEAOjnY0s-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Magnetism Ritual - There is a power in you that draws what’s meant for you closer. It doesn’t come from pushing. It comes from resonance, from standing in your truth, soft and steady, and letting life respond. Best used when you are calling in clients, collaborators, or opportunities that match your true vision. When you feel stuck, unseen, or full of doubt. When you want to move from trust. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-bone-broth-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/9da546bd-1928-409c-9a0f-cacc144c09c2/marco-j-haenssgen-h4LlCx59vJQ-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - The Bone Broth Ritual - A Return To Centre When I feel it my mind full of ideas, decisions, or change a need to come back to myself. Sometimes before lunch, when the morning has run long or I’ve been in my head too much. Sometimes when my body says: pause, sip, ground. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/manaakitanga monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/eb8ac5e4-a66f-4846-9080-07254a48623d/clay-banks-DTNrMk0-yvs-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Finding what we love about others in ourselves - For My Nana This is a post about manaakitanga and the woman who showed it to me by living it. There was always a meal when you came for a visit. It didn’t matter whether or not your were expected. Food on the stove, in the cupboards, and in the fridge. Me, my sissy, my cousins, and aunties, all loved being there and were always met with love. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/the-ikigai-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/a5b06109-41fe-46cd-8dd1-f994296a1d74/phakphoom-srinorajan-TH5ZB2N2z7w-unsplash.jpg The Full Library - Ikigai for Visionaries in the In-Between - Finding your reason for living Ikigai is Japanese for “a reason for being”, blending iki “being” an gai “worth.” And it’s about finding meaning in daily activities rather than waiting until your infinite vision has come into being. When you have outgrown the old role, business, or identity, this is a really good ritual to look at how you wish to live your life. I return to my Ikigai again and again. I remember sitting outside the library, confused about where I was heading. I had grown a successful business but I didn’t want to work in it anymore. Then a man approached me and began to share his story of being in his own in-between and shared a concept I had never heard of before: Ikigai. https://www.wabycleo.com/blog/moko-kauae-the-right-of-passage-of-cultural-identity-for-a-wahine-mori monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d7ae161939e73cce5bae56/3a3bec32-23e5-4b03-bc62-da5ec97fa853/FE4137B1-660F-4E74-BAF5-E3170FF942C8.jpeg The Full Library - Moko Kauae, The Right Of Passage Of Cultural Identity For A Wahine Māori - Candy Black (Aunty) has given Cleo Shortland permission to share her story of receiving her moko kauae, which was a privilege to witness as she ignited her rite of passage of cultural identity for a wahine Māori. This is an opinion piece based on Aunty’s individual journey and we do not claim this to be the view of our Iwi or Māori. I am Māori, I am enough. “I am Māori, I am enough.” This is the mantra that Aunty carried with her in the journey to receiving her moko kauae. She isn’t sure when this journey began, but that in the years since her mother (Nana) passed, she has had what she describes as a calling. “I have been slow to respond to this calling. It’s been there. Slowly getting louder.” Aunty said. Aunty’s tā moko journey began when she sought to express her identity through ink on skin. Her first piece encompassed Ranginui and Papatūānuku surrounding the names of each of her tamariki. Her forever. 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