Intro to Expansion

In this final Audio Commentary episode, I share my broad reflections on the journey that’s brought us to this moment through a playlist of songs that best capture what I’ve felt. The story has been dynamic and winding, but all in all, I feel triumphant, fulfilled, and most of all: myself. We start off a bit turbulent then things loosen up as the song selections reflect my changing perspective. Thi...

In this penultimate episode of our journey, I describe what is required of us once we return home to ourselves. I review what this journey together has been like for me and how the smallest act of starting scared has changed my life. I also highlight what I believe this means for you and me especially now given the state of the world. Your heart knows the way back to yourself. You need only take t...

In this episode, we cover the ways either-or thinking has robbed us of a full experience, how everything can be used to help us expand, and what an integrated state of being can offer us. We cover all this through the lens of our individual roles in an uncertain future. May this episode and this journey we’ve been on together inspire you to live. Fully. Deeply. Irrevocably. It’s time to expand int...

In this behind-the-scenes, Making Of episode, I detail the winding, unsuspecting journey that led to the creation of MelvynRustin.com , my digital wellspring. I discuss the eleventh-hour challenges that almost stopped me and how the tool it’s built on, Notion, helped me understand myself. This episode is a beautifully reflective tale that I’m sure will inspire you to consider how you’re being invi...

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MelvynRustin.com is live now! In this short episode, I talk a little about the digital wellspring, I’m calling it, what it means to me, and how it will benefit you. This website and moment represents a turning point toward a greater ability for me to create, curate, and offer so much of what I discover and build and I’m so incredibly glad to have you here. Give this episode a listen and visit Melv...

Happy Friday! Today I am welcoming you all to my personal Notion workspace, our digital wellspring, to support our elevation and expansion. Give this episode a listen to learn what Notion is if you’re unaware, a brief description of the journey here, and to get prepared for the release today (Friday, June 14th) of our digital wellspring. Keep an eye out around 12:30 PM! Melvyn 🫶🏿 Visit the writt...

Happy Thursday! We’ve got a big day tomorrow! I feel like everything I’ve written and worked on up to this point has been leading up to this moment. Tomorrow’s release thrills me in a way few of the posts have. I hope you love it, or at least enjoy it, as much as I do. Given all I’ve talked about and how we have proceeded, I'm almost certain that you will understand its importance as we wrap up an...

In this episode, I provide brief reflections on the journey we’ve been on, some behind-the-scenes moments, and what happens after we have completed this stretch of our journey together. I speak a bit more about the importance of the June 14 release for our next steps together and I share a brief video of clips and moments chronicling the journey of creating “The Ascent” (linked inside the post). G...

In this episode, we discuss the importance of naming yourself amid all the names you’ve collected over the course of your lifetime. In this episode we are encouraged to consider what we’d like to experience and name it for ourselves, adopting a new, more powerful sense of self. After the journey we’ve been on and the wisdom and insights we’ve collected, it feels appropriate to take the time to nam...

In this episode, I share my perspective and some tips for navigating multi-passionateness based on my observations of multi-hyphenates and their habits. I share how much of a gift you, a multi-hyphenate, are to the collective and the association between the multi-talented and the electric slide. If you’ve struggled with your pattern of starting and stopping things and being broadly interested, thi...

In this episode, we explore the value and approachability of small steps on the way to who we are. We examine the power and enormity of avalanches and what they teach us about small starts and big breaks. We also cover the importance of patience and how if we’re not careful, we can miss our lives rushing to a destination we never chose and don’t want to arrive at. Given everything we’ve covered an...

This episode is an announcement episode for the month of June. In it, I provide an Astrological update and recommendation, comment on Reconstruction, Wellspring, and make a very special announcement. Let me holla at ya! Melvyn 🌈 Visit the written Substack post Visit Mel’s Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...

In this episode, we discuss how focusing our affirmations more on who we want to be, that is, from within, can make them more effective and expedite our arrival at who we want to be. We discuss how our current way of affirming is like furnishing a barn and what we can learn from train rides to certain destinations. This is a fun, simple episode that can make a massive impact. Give it a listen. Mel...

In this episode, we cover the importance of being beyond ceaseless doing and how we can get better at starting things that have the potential to grow beyond our current imagination. This first content episode in the Wellspring stage put to use what we’ve covered in previous stages as well as sets us up for the rest of Wellspring. Give it a listen and plan your next artful start. Melvyn 👨🏿‍🎨 Vis...

Plentiful. Embodied. Resourced from the deep within. This audio commentary episode is the most fun I’ve had yet. In this edition, I have collected and annotated songs that speak to our power, our dreams, and the redemptive work before us to do. I also, unsuspectingly, speak a lot about the value and power of relationships as we move forward and create a new world. As I have emerged from the dark a...

In this short Musing episode, I share from my heart a summons to all those who have had to conceal, abandon, and disown parts of who you are. Happy Pride! Melvyn 🌈 Visit the written Substack post Visit Mel’s Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit introtoexpansion.substack.com

In this deeply personal episode, I narrate the journey to my coming out and the dark, rocky terrain I had to navigate to make it to the other side. I think this episode has got a bit for everybody. So let me tell it in my own words the price I had to pay to live in the light. In this one, we cover the Second Adolescence queer people typically have to live through, why our identities (and your, too...

In this Musing episode, I discuss the near-daily opportunity we get to practice receiving and experiencing the things we most desire. In it, I also share a few additional ways we’ve been given indicators of where we’re headed as well as provide a playful analogy of how we delay our greatest experiences. Give it a listen! Melvyn 🚿 Visit the written post on Substack Visit Mel’s Substack This is a p...

In this episode, I detail through my experience growing and being active in church and various religious groups, how subtle patterns of abuse, hate, and control have infiltrated and thrived in Christian churches. I highlight the numerous ways this happens, who it often happens to, and what we might do to get our personal Christian faith back on track so we may see God. Honorable mention to the way...

In this episode, we explore 7 indicators of the state of our American empire, what this means for us, and the posture we should take as we move forward. Despite all that’s happening out in the world, this episode is a reminder to bring it back to what’s ours specifically to discover and to dedicate ourselves to. Give it a listen! Melvyn 🌐 Visit the written Substack post Visit Mel’s Substack This...

In this Musing, I share what we can learn from bell towers about consistency, service, and the beauty of our souls. Please receive this encouragement to not only begin again but at a pace you actually like. Give it a listen. Melvyn 🔔 Visit the written post on Substack Visit Mel’s Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

In this Musing episode, I share some thoughts about process and how our commitment to processes that support our bodies enables us to function optimally and embody all we’ve covered so far. Give this musing a listen and take a look at your own process and adjust as you see fit. Melvyn ⚙️ Visit the written Substack post Visit Mel’s Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss thi...

In this episode, we discuss how our imaginations are the chief creative power we have available to us to reconstruct our lives. We cover the “lowdown” on imagination, the science of it, exercised to strengthen and direct our imaginations toward the lives we want to lead and why we struggle with our imagination and creativity in the first place. After all the internal reconstructive work we have un...

In this Musing episode, I discuss an alternative view of our emotions and how they can assist us on our way to our highest aims. As always, I invite you to navigate your emotions with gentleness and curiosity. Explore this perspective and muse with me about our emotions. Melvyn 🚸 Visit the written post on Substack Visit Mel’s Substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wi...