Allow Me to Re-Introduce My Self
"Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can." — Unknown
June 16th, 2026
📍The House of Loto— Salida, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸
Greetings from the wilderness!
My 45th birthday was June 14th—arriving with a Super New Moon and the unmistakable energy of Gemini season.
I spent the day surrounded by fellow Geminis—Mother Ileana, Mother Ara—and as an identical twin myself, I couldn’t help but notice the themes of duality, reflection, and becoming. Something about this threshold feels different. Not like a beginning exactly… but like a crossing. A harvest.
And as I step into this next circle around the sun, I find myself looking back, taking honest stock of the ground I’ve walked to get here. Because both are true: I am just getting started and I have already lived a thousand lives.
So, for those of you who are new here—and for those who have been with me since the start of this dream—it feels like time to re-introduce my Self.
I come from a long line of entrepreneurs. I was the kid who turned our basement into a full-blown “town,” riding my parents’ suitcases around as cars and somehow convincing my sisters and all the neighborhood kids to help me build businesses. From lemonade stands to launching my first company at 24—a fashion styling business in San Francisco, California—I’ve always known I was here to build.
And for a long time, being an entrepreneur wasn’t just what I did—it was who I was. Until it broke me.
After university, I returned to Colorado and co-founded two nonprofit organizations in the highly regulated c@nnabis industry. From the outside, it looked like success. From the inside, I was running on empty—driven by purpose, yes, but also by something much less sustainable: unhealed childhood wounds, over-identification with my work, and a complete absence of boundaries.
The burnout that followed wasn’t just exhaustion. It was a full-body, life-altering collapse. Losing myself was the hardest thing I had ever experienced. And—though I wouldn’t have said it at the time—it was also the beginning of everything.
My return to wholeness didn’t happen overnight. It was slow. Humbling. Often painful. It looked like grief and unlearning. Like sitting still long enough to connect with Life again. And somewhere in that process, the seeds of Loto were planted. Not as a business plan—but a vision of a way of life.
What began as a personal journey toward healing has since grown into something far beyond me: a living, breathing ecosystem rooted in reciprocity. A global community. A space for communal living, creative expression, and deep integration. An incubator for people who are ready to build lives—and offerings—that align with who they are.
Loto didn’t emerge from strategy alone, but also surrender.
When the world shut down in 2020, something in me woke up. While everything around me contracted, I felt a growing expansion—a quiet but persistent pull toward movement, toward the unknown. A remembering.
My father worked in international banking when I was a child, and we spent years living and traveling abroad. That early exposure left a mark. Exploration wasn’t optional—it was part of who I was. And yet, I had built a life that kept me tied to one place.
For four years, I prepared to change that. Practically, emotionally, spiritually. There was a lot to untangle. A lot to release. And in 2024, I finally stepped into it—launching as a digital nomad, beginning to host international retreats, and building a rhythm between Colorado and Mexico.
It has been as expansive as it is disorienting. As beautiful as it is confronting.
Like Loto, I have been refined in the fire of lived experience. While it’s easy to share the sun-drenched moments on Instagram—the ocean, the mountains, the magic—it’s just as true that this life has asked everything of me. There has been danger. Uncertainty. Grief I couldn’t bypass. And still—I wouldn’t trade it. Because everything started to align.
In 2021, at a major turning point in my life, I received a vision of my True Self and a higher purpose for Loto—To build a communal womb for the co-evolution of Consciousness. To participate in a regenerative way of living within a reciprocal ecosystem.
A dream that was far bigger than me—one that I knew would require deep surrender and co-creation with Creator, along with the right people, the abundant resources, and a shared devotion to bring it into form. And just like me, that vision has continued to refine over the years. Every step since has been part of that process—shaping, clarifying, stretching my nervous system’s capacity to hold what Loto is becoming.
In the months ahead, I’ll be sharing more of this story—how Loto has evolved, what’s changed, what’s been shed, and what is continuing to emerge.
Because if you’re here now, you’re not just observing this unfolding…You’re part of it.
With Love,
Jennifer
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