Jessica Herman

Channeling Wisdom. Sparking Transformation.

Jessie Herman is a spiritual channel, writer, and transformational coach best known as the channel for Vagrein, a collective consciousness offering profound guidance on self-realization and unity. Through her sessions, books, courses, and live events, Jessie helps people reconnect with their true essence and live from radical self-acceptance.

She’s also the host of the podcast “Some Kind of Mystic,” where she explores the intersection of the mystical and the human with humor, depth, and authenticity. Her work has touched thousands around the world through appearances on Gaia TV, collaborations with leading spiritual teachers, and her commitment to bringing higher wisdom into everyday life.

Please welcome, Jessie Herman.

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Steven Arita

Helping tech professionals achieve financial independence through passive real estate investing.

Steven Arita is the Founder of Arita Capital, host of the *Path to Passive* podcast, and a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. After starting his career in a small town on the Big Island of Hawaii, Steven used tech and real estate to design a path toward financial freedom.

He now helps high-income tech professionals escape the stock market-only mindset and invest in real estate like insiders—without needing to quit their jobs or become landlords. Through his podcast, capital-raising firm, and speaking, Steven shares strategies for building wealth through private deals, partnerships, systems, and mindset shifts.

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Joel Harris

What Is Your Roman Empire?

I grew up with learning disabilities that made reading and writing feel like climbing a mountain barefoot. Every sentence was a struggle. Teachers mistook my quietness for disinterest. What they didn’t see was how hard I was fighting—how much I wanted to understand, to express, to connect.

Stories became my refuge. I devoured them slowly, word by word, line by line. History, especially, fascinated me—the rise and fall of empires, the choices of men who stood on the edge of destiny. Among them, one figure captured my imagination more than any other: Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who led his army, elephants and all, across the Alps to challenge Rome. His courage, his defiance, and ultimately his tragedy spoke to something deep within me.

The Ivory General was born from that fascination—but more than that, it was born from my own battle with limitation. Writing it wasn’t easy. Some days the words felt like foreign soldiers invading my thoughts, refusing to line up in formation. But just as Hannibal adapted, strategized, and pressed forward despite impossible odds, I learned to do the same. I discovered that creativity isn’t about perfection—it’s about persistence.

The Ivory General isn’t just a story about war. It’s about leadership, doubt, and the weight of ambition. It’s about what drives people to keep going when the path ahead is uncertain and the world seems stacked against them. In many ways, it mirrors my own journey as a writer—facing obstacles that seemed insurmountable, yet finding a way through.

Today, when readers tell me that my story moved them, I think back to that child who couldn’t read a full page without frustration. I wish I could tell him that one day, those same struggles would shape him into a storyteller—that the very thing that once held him back would become his source of strength.

Because if there’s one lesson I’ve learned, it’s this: greatness isn’t about never stumbling. It’s about rising each time you fall, carrying your burdens with grace, and turning them into something that lasts.

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