Is the universe chaotic, or is there a hidden order to everything?

In this episode, David and Nick explore the undeniable reality of the Organizing Energy of the Universe—from the biology of our autonomic nervous system to the spiral of a hurricane.

The core premise of Aligned Living is simple: align your will with this organizing energy. When we do, life flows. When we don't—when our ego hijacks us to pursue safety, greed, or fear—we enter into an "antagonistic relationship" with God.

Listen in as David and Nick discuss why we are conditioned to build "small containers" of safety, why "figuring it out" is actually a trap, and why true stability requires constant expansion.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The Organizing Energy: Evidence of a higher order is everywhere, from how our bodies circulate blood to how weather systems form.
• The Antagonistic Relationship: When things feel hard or stuck, it is often because we are in an antagonizing relationship with the organizing energy, rather than flowing with it.
• The "Small Container" Trap: We are taught to create a "safe" reality. We try to "lock it down" once we think we've figured life out, but this leads to stagnation because the universe is dynamic.
• Life is a Box of Legos: A Forrest Gump inspired metaphor—without instructions, we build what is familiar, but the organizing energy wants to help us build something beyond our imagination.
• The Laptop Metaphor (Hardware Upgrade): Nick shares a story about his failing laptop battery. Just like old hardware cannot run a new Operating System, our bodies and minds must upgrade to hold higher frequencies and expanded capacities. If we don't, we experience the pressure (or "bulging") of resistance.
• The "Cast Away" Lesson: Getting off the island (survival) is just step one. You still have to survive the waves. Life is never static; it is a constant state of dynamic expansion.
• Simple Navigation: How to make decisions by simply asking, "Which path feels more expansive?".

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Movies: Forrest Gump and Cast Away (Tom Hanks).
• The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy: Visit DavidWaldas.com for details.

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

The Aligned Living System Podcast: Episode #98 - The Business of Being Psychic: An Origin Story

What does it really mean to be psychic?

It's a word that often brings up images of crystal balls and costumes, but for David and Nick, it’s a practical, grounded tool for navigation and growth. As "business people" who work with high performers, they’ve found that their abilities are most powerful when they are normalized, not sensationalized.

In this episode, David and Nick share their personal "origin stories"—the undeniable moments that opened up their intuitive abilities and changed the course of their lives. From David's first, life-altering "Not now" message to Nick's "time-traveling" clairvoyant dreams, this conversation demystifies the psychic experience and charts a course for how these gifts develop.

Listen in to hear hilarious, specific, and powerful stories of psychic guidance in action—including a pounds of weed in a school teacher's trunk and a cat solving a relationship problem —and learn why sovereignty is the key to it all.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• David’s Origin Story: How a psychic's prediction came true the very next day, when a simple "Not now" message led to a perfectly synchronized (and mind-blowing) encounter with a difficult realtor.
• Nick’s Origin Story: His 20-year history of "clairvoyant dreams" that felt like time travel, and how he finally set out to understand what was happening.
• Hilarious & Hyper-Specific Guidance:
  • The time David was guided to ask two friends about their "trunk" during a Tarot reading, only to uncover a secret involving a school teacher, a dispensary, and a few pounds of weed.
  • How Nick received the message "table, comma glass" and uncovered the symbolic reason a client's cat was peeing on her old couch.
• The Evolution of the Gift: The journey from using "languages" like Tarot cards to developing "Gnosis"—a direct, instant, and deep knowing that appears like a memory.
• The Body's Role: Why clearing your own energy and "gunk" is essential to raise your frequency, which allows you to receive clearer information from your guides.
• Sovereignty is the Key: The most important lesson—you cannot have this clarity without sovereignty. The Aligned Living tools create a "fence line" that allows you to know what is "mine" vs. "not mine," which is the foundation for all clear intuition.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy: The first official cohort launches on November 24th. Visit https://certification.davidwaldas.com/ to apply.
• Websites: davidwaldas.com and nickmusica.com.

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

The Aligned Living System Podcast: Episode #97 - Why We Coach: From Personal Trauma to Aligned Service

What truly drives someone to become a coach?

In this episode, David and Nick explore the powerful, personal missions that call people to this work. It's rarely just a career choice; it’s a deep-seated desire to change something in the world, often stemming from one's own greatest challenges.

David shares a core philosophy behind the Aligned Living coach: this work turns your greatest traumas into your greatest gifts. He discusses the journey through the "healing trough" to a place of "resolve". Once you've completed that energetic signature, you can fast-track others through the same process.

Listen in to discover how coaching transforms empaths from a place of contraction ("me and my cat") to one of expansion , and why the responsibility of service makes your own alignment an absolute prerequisite.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• Coaching in Motion: Nick discusses the idea of "walking and coaching" and how movement can help clients open up and flow.
• The Healing Trough: Coaches are often people who have been through a traumatic event, moved through the "healing trough," and found a state of "resolve".
• Resolve as a Prerequisite: Having this "completed energetic signature" allows you to help clients move through the same issue much faster. It also holds you to a higher standard: your alignment becomes a prerequisite for your work.
• The Empath's Mission: Many empaths have a frustrated or antagonistic relationship with the world, causing them to contract and keep their world small ("me and my three friends and my cat").
• From Anger to Service: Coaching flips this energy. It turns that frustration with the world into a powerful commitment to service and a mission to create something better.
• The Ultimate Accountability: We often take better care of our pets than we do ourselves. When your mission is service to others, your own self-love and self-care become non-negotiable prerequisites.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy: The first official cohort launches on November 24th. There is still room for a couple more people. Visit DavidWaldas.com to learn more and apply.

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

Are you still making decisions based on contrast?

It's the most common way we operate: "I don't like this, so I'll move toward that." But this logical, discomfort-based approach is deeply limiting. It keeps us trapped in a "small container," fighting for scraps and often just choosing the polarity of what we don't want.

In this episode, David and Nick explore a more powerful way to navigate your life: making decisions based on resonance. This approach moves beyond your ego's "likes" and "dislikes" and into a deeper sense of knowing.

Listen in to discover why true resonance often feels scary, why it's not always logically defensible, and how following it (even when it leads to a "failure") is the key to breaking out of incremental change and stepping into an exceptional life.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The "Contrast Trap": Why making decisions based on what you don't like just keeps you in a small, limited container.
• Discomfort-Based Decisions: How this common strategy leads us to jump to the opposite polarity (e.g., from a boring job to a chaotic one) instead of finding what's truly right.
• Choosing Resonance: What it feels like to make a choice based on deep resonance, which is often a feeling of "I have to do this," rather than "this will solve my problems".
• The "Logically Indefensible" Choice: Why a major trap for people is the fear of making a move they can't logically explain to themselves or others.
• Reason, Season, or Lifetime: Following resonance is about your path and growth, not necessarily a "forever" outcome. The "sure thing" is that it will serve you, even if it blows up.
• Perfection in the "Suck": David shares a recent story of how following resonance led to a "punch in the face," but provided a far more valuable lesson than the original goal.
• The Critical Caveat: You must be in alignment to trust your resonance. If you're out of alignment, what feels "resonant" will just be more of your own misaligned state.
• The "Retire and Die" Trap: A discussion on why a life of purpose is essential, and the problem with a "lackluster" vision of retirement.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Bo Eason (Story Coach)
• The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy: The first cohort is forming now and will start at the end of November. Visit the website to apply.
• Websites: davidwaldas.com and nickmusica.com

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

With so much happening in the world, many of us are finding it challenging to hold our center. In this powerful episode, David previews the material for his upcoming masterclass, reframing high performance as Inner Stability.

David shares a deeply personal story from his childhood—how his bedroom was literally a hallway for his brother to pass through—as a perfect metaphor for the empathic experience. When we don't have boundaries, we become a "throughfare," allowing the world's energy and emotions to run through us, hijacking our sense of self.

Listen in to learn about the three essential pillars of the Aligned Living System that are designed to help you stop "bleeding" energy, reclaim your sovereignty, and build the unshakable inner stability needed to thrive in chaotic times.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The Empath as a "Hallway": David's personal story about his childhood room and how it reflects the empath's struggle with boundaries.
• The 1st Pillar (The Consciousness Lock): The foundational tool to create a clear distinction between your inner world and the outer world. It’s not about protection; it’s about focus—moving your awareness from 90% external to 90% internal.
• The 2nd Pillar (Internal Stabilization): Once you have focus, the next step is to ground your energy and align your will with the "organizing energy of the universe" (or "God's will"). This is how you attract synchronicities from a place of stability, not as a "space cadet".
• The 3rd Pillar (Expanding to "Hold"): It’s not enough to just receive new opportunities, clients, or abundance. Your current life is your exact threshold for your self-worth. You must actively expand your capacity to hold these new levels, or you will unconsciously self-sabotage and undermine your success.
• Why Empaths Isolate: When empaths are drowning in the world's energy, their only coping mechanism is to isolate. These tools provide a new way to engage with the world without being overwhelmed.

Special Announcement:

• Free Masterclass: David is hosting a free masterclass to dive deep into these tools for Inner Stability.
• Date & Time: This Thursday, October 30th, at 3 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Eastern.
• Click Here to Join: https://training.davidwaldas.com/education

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

What does it truly mean to be a high performer?

For many, the term conjures images of relentless grind, hyper-focus, and a life that lacks sustainability and joy. In this episode, David and Nick challenge this outdated paradigm and introduce a new definition of high performance, viewed through the lens of Aligned Living.

Discover why the traditional model of pushing harder often leads to burnout and unfulfilling achievements. The Aligned Living approach isn't about chasing external goals; it's about setting a high internal bar for your own alignment and creating from that space. Learn how to trade the grind for flow, make self-love a core performance metric, and build a life of sustainable, fulfilling success.

Plus, get the details on David's upcoming free masterclass on this exact topic!

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The cultural view of high performance as "grind" and why it lacks sustainability.
• How Aligned Living serves as a next-level high performance tool that prioritizes flow over force.
• The key to this new paradigm: setting a high bar for your own alignment, which ensures you create outcomes you actually want and feel fulfilled by.
• Why true high performers need to know when to hit the gas, when to let ideas percolate, and when to step back and rejuvenate.
• The essential role of self-love and self-trust in creating sustainable success, contrary to the "grind" mentality.
• The paradox of the "accidental millionaire"—individuals who achieve great success but are unhappy and unfulfilled because it wasn't tied to purpose or self-trust.
• How many successful entrepreneurs, after achieving their goals through grind, ultimately hire a CEO to disengage from the part of their business that no longer resonates.

Special Announcement:

• Free Masterclass: David is hosting a free masterclass on Aligned High Performance.
• Join Here: https://training.davidwaldas.com/education
• Date & Time: Thursday, October 30th at 3 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Eastern.
• Topic: Learn how to establish a baseline of self-trust, self-love, and fulfillment, and create your success from that powerful inner state. Information to register will be available in the show notes link for this episode.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Book: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia.

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

Welcome to a special episode of The Aligned Living System Podcast. David and Nick are pulling back the curtain on a project that has been years in the making: The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy. The first cohort is set to launch in early November, and this episode is dedicated to exploring how the training evolved, what it entails, and the profound transformation it offers.

Discover the journey of the coach training program, from its origins as an invitation-only offering to its current form as a comprehensive, six-month academy. David explains the unique structure, including a final 12-week practicum where trainees are mentored as they lead their own clients through the material. Most importantly, they discuss the core shift that occurs in the training: moving from someone who is managing their alignment to someone who leads from it, making alignment a prerequisite for their impact on the world.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The Big Announcement: The Aligned Living Coach Training Academy is launching in early November.
• Evolution of the Program: The training has evolved from a 6-week program to a comprehensive 6-month academy.
• A Unique Structure: The final 12 weeks of the program involve trainees coaching a client or group through the material with direct mentorship and support from David.
• The Core Transformation: The training is designed to shift you from being a student "managing your own shit" to a leader whose alignment is a prerequisite for engaging with the world.
• Who It's For: There are no prerequisites to join the coach training. It's designed for anyone who feels a clear call to lead with this work, regardless of their background.
• Not Just for Coaches: While some graduates become coaches, many take the training to deeply integrate the work and become leaders in their existing lives and careers.
• Seamless Integration: Aligned Living tools integrate perfectly with any other authentic work you're already doing, making it stronger.
• From Skeptic to Practitioner: Nick shares his personal journey from believing this work "wasn't a thing" to having it become his core operating system.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Learn More & Apply: Visit the Aligned Living Coach Training Academy page for a full breakdown of the program and to submit your application for the November cohort. https://certification.davidwaldas.com/

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com

Welcome to another episode of The Aligned Living System Podcast. Today, David and Nick tackle the vital topic of self-love, moving beyond the common, often transactional gestures we make toward ourselves. What if true self-love wasn't something you had to buy or schedule, but a warmth you could generate from within?

In this episode, David shares a powerful new "download" that has become the keystone of the entire Aligned Living system: how to activate the divine spark of love within your own heart. This practice is interwoven with the process of reclaiming your "abandoned self"—the authentic, joyful parts you may have let go of to survive childhood or to fit into an adult mold.

Join them for a deep discussion and a guided energy exercise designed to help you generate this loving resonance, making you a magnet for what matches you and effortlessly repelling what doesn't.

In This Episode, You'll Hear About:

• The difference between "transactional" self-love (like buying a bike or a spa day from a place of deficit) and generating a sustainable warmth from within.
• Reclaiming the "abandoned self"—the parts of you that were let go of in order to survive childhood or to "grow up."
• Nick's journey of rediscovering his passion for writing and how expressing his authentic excitement has become a "tractor beam" for new opportunities.
• A guided energy exercise to help you activate the spark of divine love in your heart and feel it for yourself.
• How this internal activation acts as a resonance that naturally attracts what's for you (the tractor beam) and repels what's not (the gift of rejection).
• Two powerful phrases from
• A Course in Miracles to help you maintain this loving state when faced with external triggers.
• Why this practice of generating internal self-love has become the new "keystone" of the Aligned Living system.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Nick's Monday Meditation Group: Sign up for the free 4-week experiment at https://nickmusica.com/meditation
• Aligned Living Coach Training: The next cohort begins in late October/early November 2025. Click here for more information.
• A Course in Miracles

Learn more at www.DavidWaldas.com