Journal

Learn more about the MRA: who we are, what we stand for, and the journey that brought us here.

Read real experiences and deeply-held values that shape everything we do. When you understand where something comes from, you see it differently, and can better sense if it resonates with you.

Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

What Is My Unique Genius?

What is my unique genius?

What a tender question that is.
It asks you to risk something—to go out on the limb of believing there is, in fact, something exceptional about you.

That there is something so exquisitely yours that others could only try and fail to imitate it.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The New Blueprints

A brand new world is being created.
Right here. Right now.

So many of the old blueprints are disintegrating right before our eyes.
The brick walls that held up entire generations are crumbling.
The well-worn paths that once seemed so clear now lead to dead ends, or bristle with hurdles that no longer make sense.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Art of Coaching

Coaching is not advice-giving. It’s not fixing. It’s not leading someone to your answer.

Coaching is presence.

It’s the sacred craft of holding space while another person meets themselves more honestly. It’s asking a question that lands like a tuning fork in the soul. It’s witnessing—not rescuing. Guiding—not directing.

At its highest expression, coaching is artistry.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

​​All That Must be Accounted For

They say business can be a portal for spiritual growth—
probably because it lives at the intersection between your wildest dreams
and all that must be accounted for.
But vocation in all forms holds this same paradox.
Whether you have birthed your own company or work within one,
this path asks you to reconcile your soul’s call
with the reality of being a human in this world.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

Life Force Energy

What is the most precious and finite resource on the face of the earth?
Your life-force energy.

Where you choose to spend it
shapes your happiness,
your peace,
your deep and quiet satisfaction in this life.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Work that Deserves You

The questions of: What is my purpose?
What is my work in this world?
How am I meant to serve?
These are such important questions.
But they can also be painfully tender ones.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Most Vital Skill of Our Time

Cultivating the capacity to be with yourself is quite possibly the most powerful skill of the modern day.

The most glorious triumphs no longer come from climbing the mountains of the world.
They come from learning how to wade—honestly, gently, courageously—into the deep waters of the self.

That is where the real discoveries lie.
Not in the trophies, not in the metrics.
But in the subtle stirrings.
The sharp truths.
The quiet knowings that rise when all the noise fades.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Trap of Becoming

There’s a trap that often awaits those walking the path of the deeply examined life.
It’s sneaky—
even when you know it’s there,
you can still slip into it.

Without wild self-acceptance,
it’s easy to fall into the loop
of endlessly trying to be better—
and in doing so, deny the parts of yourself
that most need to be reclaimed.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

The Sacredness of the In-Between

We live in a world that craves certainty.

With having a plan. With knowing what’s next. With crossing the finish line and holding something shiny in your hands.

But what about the in-between? The space after a chapter ends, but before the new one begins? The space where things fall away, but haven’t yet revealed what’s coming?

The in-between can feel disorienting. Empty. Uncomfortable.

But it’s not a mistake. It’s sacred ground.

It’s the cocoon. The chrysalis. The place where the old dissolves and the new prepares to emerge.

Don’t rush the void. Don’t try to fill it. Don’t make it mean you’re lost or behind.

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Taryn Watts Taryn Watts

Your Alignment Is the Portal

What if the secret of life wasn’t something you had to earn, hustle for, or achieve… but something you remembered?

What if your greatest life’s work was simply to return to yourself?

To the real you.

The one who existed before the layers, before the roles, before the world told you who to be.

What if everything you’ve been seeking—clarity, purpose, fulfillment—was waiting patiently beneath the surface, underneath the striving, under the masks you've worn just to make it through?

What if your alignment—your truest resonance with your inner self—was the very portal to a life beyond your wildest dreams?

Not a life of perfection. Not a life free from challenge. But a life where the inner compass is finally tuned to you.

Where you’re no longer pushing, performing, or pretending.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Hidden Wisdom in Jealousy

Jealousy often begins as an annoying, obsessive thought that takes root in the mind like a weed. 

It spreads — quietly at first — infecting our perspective and taking over our inner landscape. 

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Body Knows

Learn the language of your own body, and you’ve found the compass for your life.

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Rodrigo Vargas Rodrigo Vargas

The Real Rebellion

Choosing yourself isn’t selfish — it’s sacred. What if your real work isn’t to be impressive, but to become deeply honest?

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