We're All Being Initiated, All of the Time

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

You got small so you could learn how powerful you truly are.

Every relationship, every betrayal, every "what was I thinking" moment… it's not punishment. It's a form of modern initiation.

You are not behind. You're being initiated.

You've loved people who didn't love you back the way you deserved. You've stayed longer than you should have. You've given the benefit of the doubt—and then wondered why you did.

In this episode, Danielle shares a personal story—raw, funny, honest—about a dating app exchange that challenged her standards.

What if every relationship that confused you, every situation that blindsided you, every "what was I thinking" moment wasn't punishment—but initiation?

If you've ever questioned your discernment after a hard experience. If you've done the work and still wonder why certain things keep showing up. If you want to know that you can trust yourself again…

Press play.

Episode Timestamps

[00:53] Life update: Bless & Release, venture capital, and the Centering app

[02:38] The Raya rude boy

[06:39] Shenpa: Buddhist emotional hooks and how you respond to the hard moment

[07:50] The "what was I thinking" spiral

[09:57] The priestess and warrior initiation

[11:26] Earth school in the Age of Aquarius

[12:50] The point is to love more now

[14:04] Revisiting rude boy: what he was actually a reminder of

[15:00] Sign you're a Super Blesser

[16:30] You can trust yourself

[17:10] Walt Whitman close: I contain multitudes

Transcript

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0:00.0	My loves, this conversation is for the lovers who had to get small to learn how powerful you truly are.
0:12.0	This is for all the lovers, and I mean lovers of people and life and the divine,
0:20.0	who did their best to learn that they could have done better.
0:24.6	My point here is that modern love in all of its forms is no less initiatory than all of the mythologies.
0:36.6	I am here to help you.
0:39.3	Give yourself a break for how you learned to love more.
0:43.3	Before we get into it, did you know that
0:46.3	bless and release the physics of letting go
0:49.3	and how to want what's meant for you?
0:52.3	My book of all books is out. Head to Danielle Laporte.com
0:57.0	slash bless. Shipping of the paperback edition is happening soon. They are rolling off the press.
1:06.0	Now is the time. And we are self-publishing and I am paying, supporting real humans and families.
1:13.6	No bots, no yachts. So it's cool if you want to go to Amazon.
1:20.6	Bless and release has been number one in the philosophy category on Amazon, many weeks before we even started to ship the print
1:30.4	edition, and that is really cool, but you know, small business, self-publishing, danielaport.com
1:37.3	slash bless as many copies as would feel like a blessing to you and yours. Okay, it's been a while since I've connected
1:46.8	with just a straight life update and giving you some sweet teachy-preachy-honey love in relation to
1:53.5	like what's going on in my own life. The year of 2025 was the year that I poured myself into the Bless and Release book.
2:03.6	Got that across the finish line after three years.
2:07.6	And then I got seduced into raising venture capital for an app that I'm building called Centering.
2:15.6	Although it might be called Centred. I don't know yet,
2:18.5	but it's going to be a sweet global thing, an altar in your pocket. I'm going to share the
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