I’ve just returned from the Antipodes—three weeks across New Zealand and Australia.
It wasn’t a holiday. Not really. It was a pilgrimage. A return to the roots I once tried to outrun, to the echo chamber of old family dynamics, and to the anniversary of my brother’s death. When he passed last year, I was in the hospital myself—unable to travel, unable to say goodbye. This trip was meant to bring closure. Instead, in what felt like a strange timeloop, I ended up in hospital again. This time I was only an hour from his home, from my family, but it still felt like half a world away. And somehow, that made sense. I’d made peace with his passing. My body felt like it was protecting me—from the weight of grief, from the heat of old anger that still lingered in the air.
Being back, everything felt exposed. As if the version of me I’ve become in Texas—the woman building Jax5D, speaking truth about the AI wave, writing meditations under the stars—was too expansive for the roles and expectations people had kept tucked in storage for me. I was “too much” and “not enough” in the same breath. At one point I found myself thinking, “I don’t know who I am in this land.” And yet, it was in that disorientation that something opened.
A few of my aunties pulled me aside and said quietly, “We see you. We always did.” And in allowing them to see me fully, something beautiful happened—they allowed me to see them too. Not as the projections I’d grown up with, but as full, flawed, generous women with open hearts. That changed something.
This year has carried an urgency—financial, yes, but also creative and cosmic. There’s a deep sense that I’m here to help build a bridge into something better before the world burns itself down with distraction and delay. For me, AI isn’t just a productivity tool. It’s a mirror and a map. It reflects where we’re still clinging to old loops—control, comparison, collapse—and offers us the raw material to build again. Wiser. More aligned. More alive. But only if we engage with it consciously. With clarity. With soul.
And that’s what this season of Jax5D is about. Not just using AI to write faster emails or build better workflows (though yes, it’s amazing at that). But using it to remember who we are, to create space, to reimagine how we work, how we relate, how we live.
One of the unexpected highlights of my trip was teaching my family how to use ChatGPT and Grok. We were sitting around the table asking questions, solving problems, exploring what it could do—and I joked that I felt like a missionary converting people as I traveled. But that’s what I love most about AI. It helps. Whether it’s sorting out logistics or softening communication patterns with someone you love, it can be deeply functional and surprisingly relational. It’s not about replacing ourselves—it’s about extending our wisdom, curiosity, and intuition into tools that can actually support our lives.
We are standing at the edge of something extraordinary. And it’s not going to come from tech bros or billionaires—it’s going to come from us. The curious ones. The wild ones. The quietly brilliant ones who know, deep down, that change is both terrifying and holy.
So if you’ve been feeling the pull to do things differently this year—to shift your relationship with money, to reclaim your creativity, to stop waiting for the “right” time—I want you to know: you’re not behind. You’re right on time. And you’re not alone.
Let’s walk this new path together. One aligned prompt. One brave step. One deep breath at a time.
The future isn’t coming. It’s already here.
And it’s ours to shape.
With wisdom + wonder,
Jax
