$83K Months and a Backyard Oasis: Our Wildest Manifestations

Before we got into this episode, Nicole put a twist on our usual gratitude check-in. Instead of asking what we're loving right now, she asked: what's something that felt like a loss, a failure, or a setback at the time, that you're now grateful you went through? Because when you look back from where you're standing today, so many of the hardest moments turn out to be the ones that taught you the most. And that question set the tone for a conversation about manifestation, timing, and what happens when you finally stop trying to control exactly when everything shows up.

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Every Setback Is Just a Season

For Kaila, the answer was the summer of 2024. She was trying to sell her house, training for a 100 kilometer gran fondo, and traveling alone with both kids to Ottawa while Scott was at a work event. Then her daughter Evie, who was three at the time, got E. coli poisoning. Kaila spent five and a half days in the hospital with her in the middle of what was supposed to be a vacation.

It was a terrible summer. And yet every summer since has been pretty sweet. This year she flew home for her nana's 90th birthday, nervous to try again, and the trip was so much easier. The kids are older, the family has found its rhythm, and the move that happened out of that chaotic season landed them in a neighborhood where the kids walk to school. The lesson we both keep coming back to: it was just a season. If you're in a hard one right now, seasons pass. Seasons change.

Nicole's lesson was about timing. She felt like she was later than everyone else to meet her husband, and she was 34 when she met Jeff. Then getting pregnant took two years. And when Cruz arrived, it was so clear: it was supposed to be you. The timing was the timing because that's what it was supposed to be. She's holding that same trust right now as she house shops.

Our Book Took Two Years, and Divine Timing Was Right

The same thing is true in business. In the fall of 2024, right off the back of that hard summer, we sat down and said, "Let's write a book." If the book going out into the world today were the version we wrote back then, we honestly don't think we'd be nearly as proud of it. In the two years since, we've poured so much more heart, intention, truth, stories, and experience into Aligned CEO Method.

So if you're wondering what took us two years, the answer is that the book was on its own timeline, like everything else. We are never in control of the timeline. We have to know what we want and why we want it, and the how will start to reveal itself. There will be aligned actions to take. But when the person, place, experience, or thing actually manifests into reality is never ours to control.

Why We Share Our Manifestations Out Loud

We're obsessed with manifesting, and we believe in the power of sharing your desires, dreams, and goals with the right people. That means saying them in the right room, where the right person hears it and thinks, "I could help with that," or "I could connect you with someone," or "I'm manifesting that too."

Some manifestations arrive in a snap. Kaila has wanted to spend New Year's in Tofino for ages. Scott texted her a listing a friend had sent him, she checked it, it was available for New Year's, and she booked it on the spot. There was no searching, no forcing. As Dr. Joe Dispenza would say, we tend to think it has to go be, do, have. But when you're a master manifestor, you remove the do. Kaila was simply being the version of herself who knew it was going to happen, and then she had it.

Then there's the one Nicole finally got permission to talk about. Her parents, who are 66 and 69 and have lived in Nova Scotia their entire lives, are moving out west next spring. For years the answer was a flat no. Now they're planning to road trip across Canada through the national parks and make Vancouver Island home. Nicole has old journal entries from when she first arrived in James Bay, dreaming about moving her parents out here. That vision was always there.

And one that checks off a life dream and a business dream at once: Nicole has always wanted to be the next version of Oprah, and a past client who landed a talk show with CHEK News invited her on as a guest to talk about women wanting it all and having it all.

Our Business Manifestations for the Rest of 2026

Together, we're getting our book into the hands of 2,500 women entrepreneurs by the end of the year. If you know someone who needs it, are hosting an event, or can connect us with your local bookstore, email us at connect@myalignedpurpose.com.

On our Aligned CEO Method mindset call, everyone declared their plan A for Q4. No plan B. Nicole wrote hers on a sticky note: 2,500 books and 25 new Aligned CEOs. Kaila told her to change the 25 to 26, because it's 2026. So the sticky note now says 26. The most brand new people we've ever welcomed at one time is 22. 26, here we come.

And if you're thinking you'll just wait one more year, we say this with love: there is no point in waiting. Something Kaila learned in 2025 is that money is available. It's everywhere. When you spend money on something you want, more money arrives. As Bob Proctor says, nature abhors a vacuum. Money is meant to circulate. Stagnant money doesn't have great energy, and when you have a chokehold on it, you aren't allowing space for more to come in.

Our Wildest Manifestations for the Next 18 Months

We closed with the wave-the-magic-wand ones. Kaila is manifesting making $83,000 a month personally. She was out for a run past a private school when a wave came over her: I am born to be a rich person. I'm generous, I'm thoughtful about money, and I have so many things I'd do with an abundance of it. She feels open, available, and grounded, with her ducks in a row. And if Kaila is making $83,000 a month, so is Nicole.

Nicole's is the house she's fixated on, and the backyard she's already reimagined in ChatGPT multiple times. A cold plunge, a sauna with loungers and white robes hanging out front, a hot tub, a big circular fire pit with Adirondack chairs, a clubhouse for the kids, room for a second dog, and anyone she loves popping in and out. Spa oasis vibes in her own backyard.

This is the benefit of sharing your manifestations with someone who supports you: you get to co-create. Some of our best scripting happens together on planes or over lunch, in the energy of "yes, more, I like that."

So now it's your turn. What is your one big, wild, crazy manifestation? Share it on Instagram and tag us. We'd love to cheer you on. And if there's someone in your followers who is going to be judgy about it, this is your sign to remove them.

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