Euphoric Evolution

The Dark Night of the Soul in Business – When Success Feels Hollow

• Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser

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You’ve achieved the milestones. Built the empire. Yet… there’s a quiet emptiness you can’t shake.

In this raw and powerful episode of the Euphoric Evolution Podcast, Makhosi Nejeser, The Royal Shaman, takes you deep into the sacred—and often misunderstood—journey of the Dark Night of the Soul within business and leadership.

This isn’t burnout. This is a sacred initiation. A call to evolve beyond the empire you’ve built into the embodiment of your essence.

✨ In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • The true difference between burnout and a soul recalibration
  • Why achieving success can trigger a deep internal collapse
  • How to identify when your inner world has outgrown your outer reality
  • What it really means to be “in flow” (hint: it’s not just about doing less)
  • The exact signs that your dark night is a sacred rite of passage
  • Real-life examples of collapsing misaligned success to create authentic alignment

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Makhosi Hefisah Nejeser (00:20)
You've done everything right and yet it still feels empty. Welcome to the dark night of the soul in business. I wanted to dive specifically into this topic because often the way that the dark night of the soul is taught leaves out a grounded approach. We tend to approach these spiritual, metaphysical, philosophical,

and even psychological topics without always grounding them in, well, how does that really feel and manifest in our day to day reality? And the truth is, is that if you have experienced a certain level of ⁓ achievement, of success, even if it isn't the peak of success that you think that you want, but you're finding that

there seems to be a disconnection or a hollowness to the journey and you find that deep down you're craving something deeper, you're craving alignment, this is going to be the video for you. Because there's a different experience to a dark night of the soul when there are responsibilities on you, when you are leading a family, a team, a community, an audience.

if you are known for something, respected for something, ⁓ connected to a title like doctor, thought leader, author, et cetera. And it can feel even more frustrating when you experience this spiritual awakening in business.

So what happens when the brand, the title, the thing that you are known for no longer fits the woman behind it? What happens when you have invested years, time, ⁓

time, energy, so much money and focus on building something only to find that once you've created that empire, once you have finally seen the success in the thing that you so desperately wanted and craved, when you get there and you find that the peak is hollow. Well,

This activates a new level of self-mastery, a new level of soul opportunity. Because it isn't until this point that many of us come to realize, ⁓ just chasing something on the hamster wheel, whether that is more money, more status, more homes.

more designer bags, right? Sometimes it isn't until we have actually experienced some of those things that we realize that there's something that we're craving deeper. Now, I don't want to be a hypocrite because I actually love a designer handbag and I love a luxury home and I love a first class flight. However, there is something to be said about whether or not that physical thing or that tangible experience is in alignment

with you, there is a concept of spiritual materialism where we can experience a certain depth to the things that are manifested in our life. And that's often what's missing from our society and the way that we are actually taught in going about creating a soul aligned empire.

So you need to understand that what you're experiencing isn't burnout. Burnout is just a manifestation or a symptom, a byproduct of the calling for soul recalibration that is trying to come through. So you can think of burnout as what happens when you've left something cooking in the oven too long and it needed to be pulled out, right? Burnout...

is a sign that the things that you're doing, how you're going about your life and who you're being in your life are in some way, shape or form, not aligned to who you are. It could be a manifestation of the fact that you judge yourself for needing rest. That if you're not constantly doing, doing, that you don't feel valuable or worthy of

Receiving rest that rest is something that you need to be that you need to earn at the end of a hard day's work You see burnout

Burnout happens when the things that you're doing are not coming from a connected place. It's not coming from flow. And I don't mean flow in the ⁓ biohacker way where you're trying to chase this very short experience.

I don't mean flow in the biohacker. I don't mean flow in the biohacker sense of the word where you are chasing a momentary peak experience. And I also don't mean it in the way that's commonly found in New Age spirituality. That essentially just means like you're just floating around doing nothing and everything is just happening for you. And that's amazing. No, what I mean by flow is

Actually your natural state it is where you are so present in the activities that you're doing the things that you're creating and You are in inactive action you are Feeling a sense of your identity the mind the mind chatter dissolves

time slows and simultaneously speeds up and you are entirely immersed and lit up from within in the things that you are doing. So you can be doing

So on the surface, could seem like you're doing no.

So on the surface, it might look like you're spending the same amount of time in action. But when you are misaligned, you will find that you get very little done and it's with lots of force, push and resistance behind it. But when you are in flow, you actually are able to spend the same amount of time, get a lot more done and actually be lit up by what you are creating. That is a sign.

that you are in flow, that the actual act of the thing that you're doing is a natural extension of your essence. If you haven't had a chance yet, I'm gonna invite you to take my complimentary, if you haven't yet, I'm gonna invite you to take my complimentary essence quiz where you're gonna uncover at least one of the core frequencies that you're here.

to embody in this life and it will give you some insights and little tips and tricks about how you are best designed to walk in alignment in this world. You'll find that in the description below.

So if you are experiencing this spiritual awakening or this dark night of the soul in your business specifically, in your career, in your professional life, what is actually presenting itself is that your inner world has outgrown your outer architecture. If you imagine that the life that you have built is an incredible, beautiful building.

but that you as a person just keep expanding, expanding, expanding and who you're here to be in this life is massive. But you're still holding on to this small building. No matter how beautiful it is, it becomes cramped, it becomes misaligned and it becomes heavy. It becomes limiting. And you find that it becomes more and more difficult to show up

fully in your magnetic essence and your true self, right? So what you'll start to find is that at first it feels like a whisper. There's just a little knowing that, hey, this isn't quite right. Something about this isn't right. Something about this is off. And usually we ignore that voice because

well, everything seems to be going well. Like I have money coming in and like, yeah, this isn't the best thing, but you know, I'm going to stick with it because like, who am I if I lose all this success or if people stop following me, right? And over time, I've seen this happen so many times where it starts as a whisper and then months go by, maybe even years have gone by to the point that either

things start falling away on their own or you have this sense inside of like, I just want to burn it all down. And often you don't have to burn it all down. It's just that you were ignoring all of the ways in which things were misaligned. And so now you need to realign. Right. I shared in another video about how I burned my seven figure business down.

And yes, I burned down parts of it. And simultaneously, I was also creating other aspects in the business that were in alignment so that there was more of a transition. There wasn't this like, I burnt this entire brand down. Now I have to start another. I will also put a little asterisk, little disclaimer here. I have supported people who did need to burn the business down.

and that is entirely okay, it's very scary. I highly recommend having support through that. But I was actually scrolling Instagram and I love to stay connected to people that I've worked with and I was ⁓ scrolling and saw someone that I worked with and she came to me wanting to grow her training business. And after working together, it was very clear that that business was not aligned at all.

And so it resulted through our work together in her collapsing that, but now she has built the vision that came through during our work together, which ultimately is now this ⁓ incredible community of like-minded individuals, a boutique hotel with a coffee shop. And it's absolutely beautiful to see all of that coming together and much more aligned.

So it's important that you start to see this Dark Night of the Soul as a sacred rite. This is a sacred rite, a sacred moment in your life. It's not a problem that you need to fix. If you approach it as a problem that you need to fix, you will just keep putting band-aids on top until the pipe bursts. A sacred rite, a rite of passage, is an initiation into a new

state of being into an evolved ⁓

into an evolved version of yourself that is more self-actualized and ultimately transcends the self. These of course are the highest levels of evolution and I don't mean that in a hierarchical way. I just mean that in your journey, what we're talking about is the peak potential

that you have in this life continuing to unfold and unfold in greater.

in greater expansion and capacity. So that the aspects of your potential that are laying hidden and dormant actually now are able to be expressed and come through into the world.

So now's the moment that you can realize that you're not breaking down. You're not falling apart. You are breaking open. There is something inside of you that is being called forth and is ready to come out on this plane. This may have felt more and more urgent over the last few years. And honestly, that's because we are starting to shift into a frequency first.

paradigm where alignment is the top indicator or the top priority for leadership, for business, for growth and on and on and on. It is a new way of being that prioritizes walking in alignment versus fitting into systems and structures that

ultimately don't serve us but also are extremely limiting.

If this conversation resonated with you, I'm gonna invite you to join the Shadow Game Private Podcast. This ⁓ is a three-part potent mini-series that is real talk, no performance, just power, identity, and truth. So you can apply to access that at the link below, and I hope that you stay tuned for part three in this series.