Euphoric Evolution

Ego Death Isn’t a Breakdown - It’s Your Spiritual Rebirth

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser

Success on paper doesn’t mean alignment in your soul.
 If you've reached the peak, but still feel hollow inside, you’re not broken—you’re birthing something greater.

In this intimate episode, Makhosi Nejeser, The Royal Shaman, shares the raw truth behind ego death and why it’s the sacred initiation every visionary must pass through. She unpacks how the identities that once built our success can become prisons, and how true sovereignty begins when we let the old self dissolve.

✨ This is your call to evolve beyond external achievement—and embody the power of your essence.

🌀 Listen in if you’re ready to:

  • Shift from strategy to soul
  • Redefine success on your own terms
  • Create prosperity from your true self, not your persona

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Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (00:38.664)
Ego death is not a breakdown. It's a rebirth. When I became a mother, I had just gotten married, finished school, and had decided that I wasn't going to go to med school. And I could say that there was not one specific moment that I realized my identity was collapsing. However, it seemed like there were multiple things that kind of changed.

my outlook on what was important very very quickly and ultimately it created an ego death. Now at the time I could not have used that language. It was only many years later that I came to understand that. But each one of these very significant changes in my life was catalyzing an opportunity for evolution. Now

What was most interesting is that I kind of got a chip on my shoulder. Now, going all the way back to childhood, I always felt like I needed to be successful. Because if I was successful, then that could mean I was like giving a big F you to all the statistics that were saying that I could never become something because I grew up in small town, Southern West Virginia, and my mom was a teen mom. And I thought that

achievement was the way out of that and that if I could be successful then that would make me valuable. It would make me good. It would make me worthy and all of these things that I felt like I wasn't. So when I got married then had a baby and ultimately graduated from college and then entered into direct sales and soared to success very quickly in that.

I had all of these back to back experiences that were shifting my identity and not everyone who has these experiences ultimately has an ego death. However,

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (02:52.35)
All of these experiences were inviting me into a rebirth, into a new evolution of self that could transcend the idea that my identity was attached to achieving. And something beyond came about from it. So when you see that

success starts to become suffocating. That is your soul beginning to demand sovereignty. What I did not know at the time in my experience was that all of the things that my persona thought that I wanted ultimately were not fulfilling to me. I had on paper everything that they tell you.

you should want. The house with the white picket fence, the husband, the children, the mansion parties, designer bags, all of those amazing things. And I don't want to downplay the importance of those. However, none of them actually had the depth that my soul was craving. So once I reached this peak of success,

I started to ask different questions. There was a part of me that really wanted to go back to the version of myself that I was before. And I started to realize that I actually don't know who I am. I only know who I think I have to be or who it has been safe to be. The version of me that got praise, that got

love that got connection and success. But there were so many other aspects of myself that when I look back on my childhood, I could see that I had become so disconnected from and that if I was honest, even the relationships that I had in my life and the success that I was experiencing, it almost felt like someone else's success. It didn't feel like it really belonged.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (05:19.574)
to me because it didn't have a sense of deep purpose and true alignment. I felt like I was only using a tiny fraction of my potential in this life and that somehow something just felt off. Like I wasn't really walking my path or my destiny.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (05:47.732)
So what can you take from this? If you are a leader, an entrepreneur, a high achiever, we often jump from strategy to strategy, new tactic, new platform, new way of doing things, new goal, pivot, rebrand. We keep seeking something externally in hopes that it will

fix this sense of misalignment that's lying underneath. But the truth is, that you don't need another strategy that actually you need a new self. The ego death, when it happens in your professional life, in your personal life, in your business, what's actually happening is that your ego is attempting to collapse away.

so that your soul, your higher self, can emerge a new way of being, a new version of self that is actually aligned with who you're here to be in this life. And the beauty of that is that you end up creating true prosperity. Prosperity is not just like more and more and more and more money. Prosperity is actually

having the resources, the connections, the opportunities that are truly aligned for you so that you can have the full impact that you are here to have in this life and that those things come about in the most perfect timing to allow for your destiny to unfold. You also get to experience true freedom.

freedom that is not just based on finances. We often think that if I just had the financial freedom, then I will have the all of the things that I want and I'll have the time that I need in order to experience what I want. But the vast majority of my clients come to me when they also realize, wow.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (08:13.418)
having the financial freedom, having the money, having the multiple properties in various places, having the accolades and the recognition, none of that necessarily means that I have the time freedom either. Sometimes we sacrifice time in order to get the finances, right? So then they start wanting and desiring time freedom. But then when you create time freedom, because I know lots of people who have financial freedom,

and time freedom, what ultimately is underlying is actually the desire to be your true self, to be walking in what I call your essence. You can definitely check the description for my free essence quiz, which will give you a little bit of insight into

least one of the core frequencies that you are here to embody in this life. So it's crucial that you recognize actually when you prioritize alignment, when you prioritize walking in your true self, embodying being that and then aligning strategically, energetically your empire to

allow and facilitate for you to be in your essence. Then the aligned prosperity also comes as well. The financial freedom as well as the time freedom. But more important than that is the experience that you get to have in this lifetime. It is an experience that is beyond. It is incredibly rare and extraordinary to have someone who is

walking in full presence in what I call euphoria, which is the frequency of well-being. It's not a peak experience like a lot of people chase, but it is this experience of passion, of aliveness, of deeply being connected to yourself, to others, to life in general.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (10:37.952)
So what's crucial that you understand is the identity that built your empire to this point isn't the one that's meant to hold what's next. So you experiencing this ego death is essentially a rite of passage. It's an invitation to initiation, initiation into your sovereignty, into you being able to operate

from your fullest power, not from your unconscious programming that keeps you limited, is designed to oppress you and keep you small, and are the ways in which you are unconsciously acting in a persona that is not your true self. Now this is

This is not a problem actually. A lot of people go their whole lives just operating in persona. However, if you are experiencing the ego death, this is happening because there is a very specific purpose. There's a very specific calling that's trying to come through. And so there are some people who are gonna come into this life and they're just here to experience. They're just here to live. They're just here to...

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (12:08.02)
live day to day, learn, etc. And then there are also some who have a more concrete calling or like a concrete agreement of what frequencies you would be emitting and spreading onto this plane in this lifetime. And that is catalyzed by the ego death.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (12:35.264)
So the ego death isn't about chaos. It is clarity that's starting to emerge through the collapse. Often with the ego death, there can be a frustration that starts to arise because it seems like you're doing all the right things. You're doing all the strategies. You're doing the affirmations. You're doing the journaling. You're doing the self-help work. You're doing all of the right things. Maybe even in your business, you

have hired all the right people and have an offer maybe that works. And for some reason you keep plateauing. can't scale it, right, past a certain point.

What is trying to come through is a clarity that can't be figured out. It is a clarity that can only come from within by mastering the ego, the aspect of yourself, that is your personality and all of the programming that you've received, and allowing for your soul to be your guidance system, your GPS.

that your intuition really can only show you one to two steps ahead. So this is essentially like the opposite often of manifestation. It's like two sides of the same coin and we can actually use them interchangeably at different times. But if you're experiencing this, it requires a different pathway because you may or may not have the vision of what it is that you want.

And the truth is, you actually don't need that. You actually don't need that. All you need to become aware of is where are you misaligned? And as you...

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (14:31.046)
As you dissolve that which is misaligned, alignment gets to come forward. And you do this step by step, 1%, a little bit here, a little bit there. Okay? And then before you know it, the vision has unfolded for you and it is always beyond what you could imagine is possible. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, there's no part of me that could have imagined

the path that I've taken. But everything shifted for me when I started having this realization of like, actually don't know who I am and fully what I want and what alignment looks like. All I know is that I'm in a pursuit to evolve my identity, to evolve who I'm being in order to find my true self and then allow my life, business, work, relationships.

to reflect my essence, right? That actually change starts in here, but it actually needs to affect the things around me. It needs to have an ROI that's the ripple of impact. So it was only once I actually started walking and feeling into what is aligned at each step and each phase that over time things have unfolded. Ultimately I ended up

spending five years in initiation, becoming a shaman in Africa. And this entire royal shaman work that I'm now doing, it's been seven years, all of this has unfolded over time. And I could have never imagined I'd be working with top celebrities and high level thought leaders in every industry, some of the most intelligent, brilliant,

geniuses on the planet are my clients and that's my reality. I didn't think that that was possible. It wasn't even something that I could have imagined to want. So there has to be a level of surrendering to that unknown and building your self-trust to allow for clarity to come through.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (16:56.01)
So the biggest thing to take away from this conversation is that freedom is not found in fixing. It is in the sacred dissolution. Freedom isn't found in, this thing over here isn't working. Let me figure out what strategy will fix it. No, it's actually in allowing what needs to dissolve away to be surrendered and let go.

And oftentimes that isn't necessarily the work that you're doing. Sometimes it is, fact, most of the time, it's who you're being that is dissolving. It is the way that you don't value yourself in the fullest expression of your genius. It is the dissolving of your weak, swampy boundaries.

It's in the dissolution of how you think you need to people please in order to get love and connection when actually you're here to be a solid.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (18:14.452)
respected leader.

So I want you to ask yourself.

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (18:24.17)
What is rising right now? What is showing itself through my frustration, through my challenges, through my stagnation that is giving me a glimpse into what is ready to be released so that I can find this much more energetic liberation?

Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (18:51.08)
If this has resonated with you, I want to invite you to listen to my private podcast, The Shadow Game. This is for high performing leaders who are in this spiritual rebirth. It is a micro potent podcast. You're not going to be listening for umpteen hours. Each episode is about five minutes. And this is really going to be for you if you know that you've built the empire and now you're ready to meet the self.

who can actually hold it, hold all of it. So you can find that link in the description and the other links to the resources that I've mentioned here and stay tuned for the next video in the series.