the pull you’ve been ignoring

Christian Ray Flores here, on a sunny Austin morning.

This post is inspired by candid conversations I had this last week or so. A pastor. A financier managing $1.5 billion. A tenured professor. A multinational CEO.

Different worlds. Same ache.

They’ve all spent decades mastering something. They see patterns nobody else sees. They’ve earned insights that could save people years—maybe decades—of pain.

And their reach is limited to who’s in the room.

Here’s what hits me when I have these conversations. We’re all born creators. Kids don’t need permission to make stuff up, to tell stories, to build worlds. That’s the most human thing about us.

Then life happens. School. Careers. Professionalization. We get it educated out of us.

We move through seasons—student, practitioner, master, sage—and somewhere between master and sage, something starts gnawing.

“I’ve seen this movie before. I know how it ends.”

“Someone needs to hear this.”

But the calendar pushes back. Habits push back. And honestly? The sheer discomfort of being a beginner at something again—public speaking, writing, creating content—pushes back hardest.

So the insights stay in the room.

Twenty people hear what twenty thousand need.

I believe masters who never learn to create content never reach their potential. Not

because they’re not brilliant. But because brilliance deserves a bigger platform.

This week I released something I’ve been refining for months.

I break down the three skills that transform expertise into authority that compounds while you sleep—including the thing we’re also trained to ignore but serves as the rocket fuel to share your wisdom.

Ten minutes. No fluff.

If that ache I described feels familiar—watch this. If it hits hard, let me know what part spoke to you.