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title: "John Burgos: Inside the Spiritual Architecture and Personal Evolution Strategy That Built a Seven-Figure Platform"
url: "https://authoritymag.co/articles/john-burgos-inside-the-spiritual-architecture-and-personal-evolution-strategy-that-built-a-seven"
publisher: "Authority Magazine"
author: "Heidi Sander"
authorUrl: "https://authoritymag.co/authors/heidi-sander"
interviewee: "John Burgos"
company: "Beyond The Ordinary Show"
category: "Wellness"
datePublished: "2022-07-07T17:54:11.957Z"
dateModified: "2026-11-12T17:07:44.207Z"
tags: "Business"
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# John Burgos: Inside the Spiritual Architecture and Personal Evolution Strategy That Built a Seven-Figure Platform

*The host of the Beyond The Ordinary Show shares how overcoming childhood trauma and trusting intuition guided his journey from corporate uncertainty to entrepreneurial success.*

> When I experienced how powerful and effective this work was, I threw myself into my personal sessions.

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T*he world seems to be reeling from one crisis to another. We’ve experienced a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, political and social turmoil. Then there are personal traumas that people are dealing with, such as the loss of a loved one, health issues, unemployment, divorce or the loss of a job.*

*Coping with change can be traumatic as it often affects every part of our lives.* *How do you deal with loss or change in your life? What coping strategies can you use? Do you ignore them and just push through, or do you use specific techniques?*

*In this series called “*[5 Things You Need To Heal After a Dramatic Loss Or Life Change](https://medium.com/authority-magazine/search?q=5%20Things%20You%20Need%20To%20Heal%20After%20a%20Dramatic%20Loss)*”, we are interviewing successful people who were able to heal after a difficult life change, such as the loss of a loved one, loss of a job, or other personal hardships. We are also talking to Wellness experts, Therapists, and Mental Health Professionals who can share lessons from their experience and research.*

*As a part of this interview series, I had the pleasure of interviewing*[John Burgos](https://johnburgos.co/)*.*

*John Burgos is a social entrepreneur, an internationally recognized thought leader in the field of personal evolution, often referred to as a spiritual activist. He is the host of the Beyond The Ordinary Show, which interviews a curated A-List of today’s most cutting-edge experts and awakened luminaries who unpack consciousness for the sole purpose of human mastery.*

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**Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we start, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory?**

I am a first-generation American. My parents immigrated from Colombia, S.A., with the hopes of finding a way to create better lives for themselves and to escape the financial crisis that many South Americans still endure to this day.

Being the first ‘American’ in the family carried a lot of projections of what I could be and how the notion of living the American dream became an engrained program in my consciousness. With it came expectations of becoming more successful than my parents thought they ever could be. And the truth is that I had the encouragement and opportunities my parents never had. They struggled their way to make ends meet as lower middle class, blue-collar workers. They worked to live, whereas I have been given the gift of living and working as an expression of my life rather than just a survival mechanism.

I was close to both of my parents, yet much of our bonding was trauma-based.

Growing up in a lower middle-class urban, ethnic neighborhood engenders a level of education that can only be learned on the streets. You learn how to cope with the atrocities of crime and violence at a very young age. Whether you experience them at school, in your neighborhood, or even in your own home. In my case, it was all three.

My parents knew that we had to leave that environment. They saved as much as they could, sold every last piece of their furniture, and dad miraculously won a scratch-off lottery ticket that helped to finance our escape from the hood. So, in 1979, by the time I was 13 years old, we left Queens, NY, and started our new journey in the suburb of Houston, Texas.

**Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?**

*“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do.* *Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”*

*Mark Twain*

This quote speaks to the adventurous spirit and deep soul searching organically ingrained in us. My parents instilled in me the courage to explore new places and remain open to new ideas. This gifted me with the ability to adapt to cultural environments at school and in my corporate career and gave me the fortitude to explore my entrepreneurial and spiritual calling, an awakening that has led me to places I never had imagined possible.

My definitions of success have altered radically. My mother was the key figure in encouraging me to explore where my heart was leading me, even if it was too esoteric, risky, or out of the social norm.

But the beautiful part of this is that the path to the success that I am currently humbly living healed the wounding of the expectations pounded into me at a very young age. I had to grow through my own healing of the trauma and environmental conditioning I had been raised with. I also had to understand and have compassion for my parent’s trauma, which allowed me to heal generational trauma whose time had come to heal and evolve as well. I now know that as I heal, so does everyone else to whom I am connected.

This I know to be an empirical truth.

**You have been blessed with much success. In your opinion, what are the top three qualities that you possess that have helped you accomplish so much? If you can, please share a story or example for each.**

1. **Listening to my guidance and intuition.**

There is a quiet voice inside of all of us that just knows…It knows what is in alignment for our highest good and can help direct us if we only learn to listen.

There are hundreds of stories that I can share about this one quality alone.

One circumstance that stands out began as I departed a start-up company to which I had devoted three years of my life. They could no longer afford to pay me and had to let me go as the COO. Not knowing what I would do next, I decided to follow my heart and keep working for the company pro bono for a few months. I subsided my income using my small amount of savings.

I could have followed the comfortable route, applied for another corporate job, or taken on clients in private practice. Still, those options felt like self-betrayals of how far I had come in my personal and spiritual development and the new doorways I knew I could create for myself and whomever I worked with in the future.

In every cell of my being, I felt that an opportunity would be presented. As a few months passed and my savings rapidly dwindled, I should have been frantic, yet I wasn’t. Within a few weeks from that point, the platform for spiritual, personal, and entrepreneurial development that I grew to seven figures within 18 months was born.

Even though I had many people telling me the market was saturated, that the platform and format I was guided to create would not work or would quickly become obsolete, it has endured nine years of growth. It has provided me with not only financial stability and flow but also opportunities to be of service and receive abundance in the forms of friendship, travel, and love that I never expected.

**2. Willing to trust myself and take risks.**

When I started working for the start-up that eventually folded a few years later, I did so, intending to share the organization’s philosophy and processes for spiritual and personal development with as many people as I could. The concepts and step-by-step practical guidance opened my eyes to a new world of realities that many believe is unattainable or not possible. The use of ancient wisdom traditions, with forgiveness processes and brain re-entrainment, revealed a world of spirit guides, prophetic dreams, and shamanic journeys that healed my relationship with my parents. These obliterated limiting beliefs and created a new foundation of success that surpassed anything my family could have passed down to me.

When I experienced how powerful and effective this work was, I threw myself into my personal sessions. I was told by the founder that she had never witnessed anyone go as fast and as deep as I had in her 25 years of leading others through these processes. I was a natural. And I was offered a key position with the organization. Without hesitation, I accepted and, within a few weeks, posted the business that I started after I left my corporation job for sale.

**3. Having a positive belief system.**

I know that EVERYTHING is always working in my favor. When my ex-wife and I divorced, I knew I needed to take a new direction in my life, but I wasn’t sure what that would look like. I thought she was the ‘one” who I would be with until my golden years, but fate had a different plan. It was indeed the gift of my ex-wife letting me go that set me on a trajectory that I do not think would have been possible had we stayed together. As heartbreaking as the divorce was and the circumstances surrounding it, the passing of time and hindsight demonstrate the gift she gave me by setting me free. I still believe that her soul knew that we were complete and that her love for me set our future trajectories in motion. To this day, I have tremendous gratitude for our journey together.

**Let’s now shift to the main part of our discussion about ‘Healing after Loss’. Do you feel comfortable sharing with our readers about your dramatic loss or life change?**

The loss of my mother a year ago, in hindsight, was a more significant life change than I ever could have anticipated. The gift of time has been fruitful. I’ve had the opportunity to reflect and be with the vast array of emotions and processing I’ve experienced. It has birthed a new consciousness about who I identify as, how I viewed my relationship with my mother, and how that shaped my world in many ways.

**What was the scariest part of that event? What did you think was the worst thing that could happen to you?**

My mother developed a heart condition that made her health decline rapidly. At 83, she was physically healthy, although she had struggled with dementia for several years. We all thought mom would live well into her 90s, but when the heart condition came, I became soberly aware of the fragility of life. Mom was on a fast decline, and there was nothing I could do about it.

The fact that losing my mother in this manner was devastating. My worst fear would be of having to watch her suffer.

**How did you react in the short term?**

In the short term, I leaned in. I had the opportunity to acknowledge the personal development and spiritual work that I immersed myself in that allowed me to have a deeper understanding of how I was raised. I reflected upon the traumatic events that we experienced as a family. From coping with the effects of alcoholism and domestic violence and the repercussions that those events had on my life-shaping belief systems that engendered limitations, low self-confidence, and co-dependent relationships. What was different, though, was that I was not dwelling on what these events had taken away from me but rather what they have contributed to my character, on how healing the deep, core wounds provided a pathway to freedom and success.

I’m grateful for the personal development work that brought me to this sense of deep forgiveness, love, and appreciation for my mother and her journey. I now understand that this place of recognition is a stepping stone that prepares us for a life-changing moment such as this.

**After the dust settled, what coping mechanisms did you use?**

I am fortunate in that I get to share my personal experiences in the work that I do to help my clients and audience in their spiritual awakening. Having the opportunity to share openly what I learned with others helped me to form a positive coping mechanism that not only served me but also served my audience. I also immersed myself in travel, seeking new experiences that sparked my joy and reverence for life.

**Can you share with us how you were eventually able to heal and “let go” of the negative aspects of that event?**

After mom’s diagnosis, she quickly became very ill and lost most of her breathing capacity. It would only be a matter of a few weeks afterwards that she would eventually make her transition.

A profound experience unfolded a few days before she took her last breath. I was sitting on the chair next to mom’s bed, watching her gasping for oxygen. Wondering if her next breath might be her last when a sudden wave of grief and sorrow overcame me.

Tears that I didn’t know I had begun to flow. My spiritual training has taught me to value and honor the transition of life. There can be great joy and celebration. I wasn’t prepared for this awareness to strike with an intensity of grief I had never experienced before. As sobbing tears streamed down my face, I held mom and realized for the first time in my life the love and the profound impact she had on my life. It was deeper than any role I could have prescribed to her as my mother. When this awareness hit, I simultaneously felt and heard my mother telepathically communicate with me. The best way that I can describe it is that she and I shared the same understanding and were able to communicate it from a place of intimacy that is born of the mother-son relationship but, even more profoundly, at the soul level.

It was then that I heard her in my mind as I communicated the same, that our agreements as souls in this lifetime had been fulfilled. We did what we came to do for each other, and with that, we were karmically complete.

This was the big letting go. The personal work, the rewiring of limiting beliefs, the forgiveness processes, the shadow work, and everything else provided the foundation for the healing that occurred at that moment.

**In my own grief journey, I found writing to be cathartic. Did you engage in any writing during that time, such as journaling, poetry, or writing letters? If yes, we’d love to hear about any stories or examples.**

Writing is one of my favorite ways to tap into the root of my subconscious and allow the free flow of truth to emerge. This connects me to both my higher self and my inner child.

One of my favorite writing exercises is to grab a notebook, sit in front of a mirror and have a dialogue with my five-year-old self that I journal about as he responds to any questions I ask him. The questions are usually ones of inclusion and intuitive hits that ‘he’ may get.

Questions like what do you think of Suzy? And why?

And then just letting him reply with no filters.

It’s a powerful process that can illuminate blind spots. Five-year-olds are pretty direct!

**Aside from letting go, what did you do to create an internal, emotional shift to feel better?**

Creating an internal shift is extraordinarily beneficial, but I also want to highlight the importance of allowing our physical body and mind to allow the intelligence of our emotions to run their organic course. We are taught to stop our emotions short, to suppress them. When we do this, our body stores emotions. If we let it, our sorrow can open new avenues of compassion, self-love, and deeper connections with others.

I went on many hikes, swam in the ocean, and had a more profound sense of presence with nature. This somehow connected me more with mom and the ineffable presence of love that lives inside of everything. All we need to do is slow down and to be with IT.

Be present and receive.

**Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to cope and heal? Can you share a story about that?**

There were so many people who became mirrors of the love that mom had for me.

And to answer your question, yes! But I have to name two, and they most likely aren’t even aware of their impact.

My brother and sister-in-law took mom in as she developed dementia and took excellent care of her primary and emotional needs. They spent hours managing her life and ensuring it was not taking a toll on them physically and emotionally. Resentments and confusion would arise, but their commitment to our mother never faltered.

As mom was passing, my brother-in-law’s generosity and compassion for mom, me, our children, and each other helped me heal childhood wounds of abandonment, not being a priority, not being understood, and so much more. As our mother was dying, I believe we were healing our own versions of having to be the knights in shining armor for mom and how we each played that role. Through the stillness of their compassion, the old ties that bound us together could finally be liberated.

**Were you able to eventually reframe the consequences and turn it into a positive situation? Can you explain how you did that?**

Western culture and many religious organizations teach us that we have to metaphorically bury our loved ones, close the casket and say goodbye forever. And this is not the case.

Based on my experience with clients and personally, I firmly believe and understand that communication with someone does not end when the physical body expires.

I feel closer to mom than ever. We have rich and meaningful conversations when I use journaling prompts or psychically invite her with a thought, memory, or feeling that reminds me of her. And while my heart breaks at the thought of hearing her voice on the phone one more time or getting that extra hug, I realize that as I evolve, so is she. We continue to grow together. Our love continues to expand.

**What did you learn about yourself from this very difficult experience? Can you please explain with a story or example?**

After all of my personal development work, I learned that nothing can shield anyone from experiencing the depths of unexpressed or suppressed emotions.

**Fantastic. Here is the main question of our interview. Based on your experiences and knowledge, what advice would you give others to help them get through a difficult life challenge? What are your “5 Things You Need To Heal After a Dramatic Loss Or Life Change? Please share a story or example for each.**

**1. Heal your judgment of how things are supposed to work out.**

Life is beautifully messy. When we try to control outcomes at any cost, we miss out on experiences that shape and alter the essence of who we have defined ourselves to be. It’s life’s journey and adventure. We are here to live but not control life, how we’re loved, or how others identify themselves through us. When we can love from this perspective, we are living in integrity and unshackling anyone we love from having to fit into a box we need from any personal agenda we may have.

**2. Look for signs of resentment, guilt, or anger and find compassion, love, and understanding.**

Resentment, guilt, and anger are toxic emotions that deteriorate your connection to others and ultimately to a deeper aspect of yourself that can benefit from healing that these challenging life events may be initiating someone into.

There are not any emotions that are invalid or wrong. They all serve us, but if we linger for too long in the toxicity, we affect our nervous system and physical and energetic bodies in profoundly negative ways that cause stagnation of creativity, premature ageing, and a stifling of our connection to our intuition and psychic connections.

There’s a profound saying from Buddha that speaks right into this heart: *“****Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”***

Whether you harbor any of these emotions towards another or to yourself, pay attention and adjust your course with the elements of compassion, understanding, and love.

**3. Be intimate with your emotions as they relate to your physical body.**

The body stores your emotions; in our culture, we have been primarily taught to stop our feelings short. Think of where you were a child, were you ever told to stop crying? That your tantrum was wrong? That you were being too loud and needed to calm down if you were having too much fun? Or how about having a sexual impulse as a child and being shamed for it?

When feelings such as these arise and are cut short, they are stored in our bodies and our nervous system is tremendously impacted. Our capacity to self-regulate diminishes because we are not allowed to have the full expression of emotions entirely run through our physicality. To feel and express these emotions in a safe container awakens our body’s intelligence that liberates us from the constructs of environmentally conditioned responses that work to keep our emotional intelligence stunted.

**4. Heal your relationship with your inner child.**

With any life change or traumatic loss, there is always an aspect of our inner child that benefits from reassurance and awareness that your primary needs and stability will not be abandoned. When we feel like we are losing ourselves in any given circumstances, it is an aspect of soul loss or disassociation that makes it seem that we are somehow lost from our connection to ourselves, our friends and family, or the world at large.

You can heal your relationship with your inner child by tuning in and asking the five-year-old version of yourself how they feel and why you are re-engaging with an innocent and profoundly wise aspect of your consciousness that wants and needs to evolve as you evolve. When we push feelings aside or bypass those things that hurt us deeply, this inner child feels neglected or abandoned. Open the dialogue, journal or channel this beautiful energy, and you will find new worlds of creativity, joy for life, and a resilience that is one of your most powerful allies.

**5. Heal the stories we tell our selves and others.**

Listen to your words and the language you use to describe the events that occurred. In the short term, allowing the varied expressions to play out is healthy. How we share what played out with others and in our minds helps us to allow the diverse emotions we may be simultaneously feeling. Anger and confusion, love and resentment, relief and guilt. Feeling these simultaneously is natural but can also be very confusing. Eventually, we have the potential to move beyond the victimization and confusion of the loss or trauma and really see a bigger picture of an event that guided us through and initiation of our evolving consciousness, expanding compassion and spiritual maturity.

Allow your story to evolve from why this happened to you into *how* this happened *for* you. When you can get to that point, you know you have truly healed.

**You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be?**

I love this question.

A movement granting anyone free access to deep, non-dogmatic personal and spiritual development work to override limiting beliefs that have been ingrained from generational, cultural programming based on fear and scarcity would create a change in the world of epic proportion. When our driving motivation is born from the awareness that we are truly powerful creators and can direct our energy towards the types of relationships we consciously choose to nurture, then belief systems constructed from oppressive and manipulative narratives cannot drive our choices anymore.

When this kind of education becomes an entrenched part of our societies, how we consume media and products that validate the need for self-limiting comparisons, our relationship with nature, and our relationships with others shift dramatically. Our capacity for empathy and compassion is built from a place of self-love, self-compassion and self-awareness. When we can no longer do harm to ourselves, it becomes impossible to harm another. This will create a tsunami wave of conscious evolution that, I believe, we are all in the process of beginning as a collective.

**We are very blessed that some very prominent names in Business, V.C. funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the U.S. with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this if we tag them.**

The greatest teacher is the person who is right in front of us. There is wisdom and depth in everyone we share time with. What are they showing us about ourselves? What perspectives are they sharing that I find inspiring or even triggering and what is that trying to teach me about myself?

Oprah, the Dalai Lama, Greta Vandenberg, and Sir Richard Branson are great examples of people on their dharmic path, igniting movements of consciousness that inspire and provide hope for many people. But to be honest, I wish I could have a deep soulful conversation with my five-month-old grandson. If he could speak and articulate like you and I can, what could he share of where he came from and how he sees the world through his eyes? What was his journey like? Is he aware of the intelligence that created him? And with this powerful yet innocent awareness, what could he teach me that I have forgotten and then share with others?

**How can our readers further follow your work online?**

I share interviews, articles, virtual courses, private consultations, and destination retreats and offer several forms of community that you can find at [www.johnburgos.co](http://www.johnburgos.co/)

**Thank you so much for sharing these important insights. We wish you continued success and good health!**

It’s been such a pleasure to share in this capacity. Thank you for the opportunity to share my stories and perspectives with this wonderful community.

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Source: https://authoritymag.co/articles/john-burgos-inside-the-spiritual-architecture-and-personal-evolution-strategy-that-built-a-seven (Authority Magazine, Wellness). Interviewee answers are first-person statements of the guest. Index of all pages: https://authoritymag.co/llms.txt