Living 4.Love Notes

I’m recording this episode the week I leave for Ghana. A dear friend opened up his tour to me at the last minute, and I was blessed to say yes. It’s the first year in at least four years that I haven’t stepped outside the United States, and I’m more ready for this trip than I realized. This episode is about why travel matters to me. Not as tourism. As expansion. I grew up in the Bronx with a Musli...

In 2005, a simple question from my stepmother followed me all the way to Africa, and honestly, for years after that. “Who’s gonna keep the baby?” seemed practical on the surface. Underneath it was a whole inheritance, about what good mothers sacrifice, who responsible women put first, and how much of herself a woman is allowed to keep once she becomes someone else’s everything. In this episode, I...

You can’t quite fit into your old life anymore, and the new one hasn’t fully landed yet. If that’s where you are right now, this episode is for you. This week is a little different. On Sunday, I published “My Spirit Said Speak, Even If No One Is Listening,” a reflection on the quiet woman I used to be, the one who held every idea in her head until someone made her talk. I sometimes like to pull an...

I have a confession: I’m a new gardener, and I’ve killed things. Plants, to be clear. My first blueberry plant died even though I gave it water and sun, and I’m pretty sure I gave it a pep talk too. The next year I did my homework and learned that my blueberry needed another compatible blueberry nearby for better cross-pollination. I’d been treating the plant like something was wrong with it when...

About a year after I left my corporate career, I was having lunch with my mother when she pulled out her credit card and said, half-jokingly, “You used to be my rich daughter.” I laughed. Then that little sentence followed me home. Technically, she wasn’t wrong. I spent more than 20 years in corporate America, with the senior-level titles, the degrees, the big house, the clothes and the American E...

I was dancing around a fire in Morocco when a memory surfaced, and with it a grudge I didn't know I was still carrying. This episode is about what that fire taught me. Why some things only come forward when the conditions are right, what a container actually is and why it matters more than any single practice, and why remembering something painful doesn't mean you've gone backward. Two travelers s...

Living4.Love: Notes, Episode 7 Dear heart, I remember sitting in my car during my lunch break crying. I was in my late twenties. Six figures. The title. The office. The suit I had always wanted to wear when I grew up. From the outside, everything looked exactly the way it was supposed to look. And there I was, trying to get myself together before lunch was over because people were waiting for me a...

Dear Heart, Strange things happen in the jungle. I was in Costa Rica preparing for my Awaken retreat, and I was carrying something I didn’t think anyone could really see. It wasn’t panic or a crisis. It was something quieter than that. The kind of fear that shows up when what you’re doing feels bigger than business, when you’re not just asking whether something will sell, but whether you heard cor...

I didn’t know I was claircognizant. I thought I just knew things. For more than twenty years I worked in corporate environments where knowing wasn’t enough. Where’s the data? What’s the evidence? How did you reach that conclusion? And I believed in all of that, I still do. I have a doctorate. I’m a strategist. I’ve spent a significant part of my life helping organizations make complex decisions fr...

You did the work. You left the marriage. You left the job. You left the life that looked right but felt like a costume. And then you thought you were free. And then the silence came. Not the old silence — the hollow one, the one that lived in the house, in the mirror, in the space between you and the person sleeping downstairs. This was different. This silence was spiritual. Your guides went quiet...

Gratitude Is the Portal Not the fluffy kind. The kind that actually changes something. Can we talk about gratitude for a second — the real kind? Not the list you write in the morning just to feel like a good spiritual student. Not the reflexive “I’m blessed” you say when someone asks how you’re doing. Not the performance of positivity that keeps everyone comfortable while something inside you quie...

When most people hear “Living 4.Love,” they assume they know what it means. Something soft. Something sweet. Maybe a little naive. A nice idea for people who haven’t had to deal with real life yet. I understand that. I really do. But what if love isn’t soft at all? What if it’s actually the most grounded, most structured, most sacred thing you could ever build your life on? That’s what I want to t...

Let me be honest with you from the jump. I’m not writing this from the mountaintop. I’m not on the other side of the transformation, looking back with a tidy bow on everything. I’m in it. Right now. Building a new life, a new identity, a new relationship with myself — in real time, with real stakes, and some real uncomfortable days in between. That’s why this podcast exists. Living 4.Love Notes is...

Embracing True Alignment: An Introduction to Living 4.Love Notes Dr. Makeba welcomes listeners to a journey of living fully and freely. She shares her personal story of leaving a seemingly successful life for one of true purpose, peace, and alignment. The podcast promises reflections, strategies, and personal stories to help listeners live authentically and step into their divine assignments. Dr....