Connection and Oneness – The Awakening to Creativity That Can Heal the World with Lilly Wong
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Tricia Brouk helps high-performing professionals transform into industry thought leaders through the power of authentic storytelling. With her experience as an award-winning director, producer, sought after speaker, and mentor to countless thought-leaders, Tricia has put thousands of speakers onto big stages globally.
Being able to support speakers in using their voices for impact is a privilege and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lilly Wong to discuss her lone genius myth and how true pioneers harness collective intelligence.
Lilly Wong empowers conscious leaders to break limiting myths and live their core purpose with clarity. Through deep transformation, she unlocks realms beyond the seen, collaborates with spiritual visionaries, and founded a modern mystery school, guiding pioneers since 2012.
Today, as the Mother of Mythbreaking, she dismantles the myth of separation between the “spiritual” and “conventional” worlds, revealing oneness as the key to true growth at work, home, and beyond.
Have you always been a collaborator, someone who cherishes connection, Lilly?
I wish I could answer yes. But the truth is no. I had to learn to see the uniqueness in each person, rather than becoming frustrated because they don't see what I see.
Since childhood, I've been able to see behind the veil of ordinary reality. I perceive both the visible and the invisible realms simultaneously. I can see the geometry flowing around all that exists and follow my intuition with remarkable clarity.
It wasn't until my twenties that I realized a profound truth: not everyone perceives reality through this same lens. Before this awakening, I would find myself deeply frustrated watching others make what appeared to me as misaligned choices. This recognition was both humbling and transformative, but also lead me to fall into what I now call the "savior syndrome."If others couldn't see the full tapestry of reality, I would become their eyes. I would speak for them, make choices for them, and try to guide every step, as if their journey needed to follow my vision.
In professional settings, colleagues would approach me, sensing my ability of perception: "Do you think this is a good moment to speak with the boss?”. I would tune into the field of my boss's office, and respond: “Yes, or No, return later."
In my early thirties, this natural gift eventually blossomed into my calling as a mentor. Rather than wanting everyone to perceive reality through my lens or see for others, I now guide conscious leaders to activate their own inner wisdom and support their purposeful projects at a distance, transcending time and space.
After checking off everything on ‘the list,’ I left it all behind and devoted four years to remembering that my body, emotions, and thoughts are an inseparable unity. When they move in coherence, my ability to tune into other dimensions of reality expands. I understood that in my well-intentioned "helping," I was actually removing the opportunity for each person to learn through their own journey, to evolve through their own challenges, to grow through their own so-called “mistakes”. I opened myself to the magnificent diversity of perception around me. What I discovered transcends notions of sameness or difference; it's about recognizing the unique essence within each being.
That was the moment I opened to collaboration, eventually leading to co-creation in oneness, which I now cherish and embody with all my heart.
What makes it possible, in your mind, for bigger ideas to emerge through thinking collectively?
The emergence of truly transformative ideas becomes possible when we create space for each unique voice to express its exclusive signature.
I've come to understand that hierarchical or pyramidal structures simply don't work any longer in our evolving world. These outdated models, where power flows from top to bottom, contradict how life naturally organizes. Instead, I propose embracing a beehive structure, where every cell brings a unique perspective serving the highest purpose of the whole collective.
Can you imagine if the queen bee suddenly declared, "I alone will perform all tasks because I know better than the others how everything should be done"? The entire hive would collapse, and the delicate balance of nature itself would be threatened by this disruption of high intelligence order.
Every person on this planet carries a singular fingerprint unlike any other. This uniqueness transcends race, gender, culture, and all other human categories. We are each irreplaceable notes in a mind-blowing creation's symphony.
When we create environments that allow us to truly see and hear the uniqueness of one another, something magical happens. Individual unique expressions naturally harmonize into a choir of oneness that resonates with previously unimagined power. Together, freed from competition and comparison, we can manifest new realities in our world, one where the whole becomes infinitely greater than the sum of its parts, revealing solutions and possibilities that no single mind could access alone.
Why do so many people feel competition instead of collaboration and how does that harm them and the global collective?
At the root of competition lies a profound disconnection that people haven't yet discovered their unique voice signature.
From our earliest moments, we're surrounded by systems that impose rigid rules about who we must be to belong. We find ourselves caught in an exhausting pendulum swing, either striving desperately to match some external standard of "normal" or rebelling by defining ourselves in opposition to others. Both responses emerge from the same wound, the forgetting of our true nature.
I intimately know this path because I walked it for years. Whatever I pursued, I was driven to become the best, excelling in school, earning prestigious scholarships, and mastering multiple languages. Yet beneath this impressive exterior was a growing inner void.
My body eventually rebelled against this misalignment. It took three strikes, three wake-up calls burnout, depression, and panic attack, to finally crack open my awareness, that created space for new understanding. I finally recognized that I had been walking a path that led away from, rather than toward, my authentic self.
The pyramidal structures that have dominated our organizations for millennia are crumbling because they fundamentally contradict the way life naturally organizes. I now understand that when society operates by these hierarchical rules of better/worse, different/same, instead of honoring uniqueness within oneness, we collectively create an enormous global void. This emptiness manifests as the widespread disconnection, environmental destruction, and social fragmentation we see around us.
In their place, we must embrace the beehive model, where each cell contributes its unique perspective in service to the whole. This is how we heal the global void by recognizing that our uniqueness exists not to separate us but to create the perfect complementary pieces of a magnificent whole.
What makes someone a genius? And how do we know if we are one?
We stand at a profound crossroads in leadership around the globe with two distinct paths before us.
We can embody the Lone Genius, living by the motto: "If I don't do it myself, it will be done incorrectly. Only I possess the capability." This path inevitably leads to burnout, depression, and isolation, I know because I've walked this terrain.
Or we can choose to embody the oneness, Genius: breaking through limiting myths to express our highest gifts in service to humanity's evolution. This path recognizes that true brilliance emerges not from separation but from connection to your authentic essence and to the web of life that holds us all.
When I speak of co-creation, I mean allowing both the visible and invisible realms to participate in the creative process. This is the essence of my Unique Oneness Genius. Because I perceive beyond ordinary reality, I can access this field where all memory resides. I invite these high intelligences to co-create with me and my mentored leaders, allowing each project to become part of a purposeful orchestration.
True genius isn't about standing above others but about finding your perfect place within the highly intelligent ecosystem of the whole.
What if our readers really feel that they work better alone? What would you tell them?
I would gently invite them to experiment with a different possibility. If you never taste the nectar of true collaboration, how can you know the full spectrum of what's possible? The potential of oneness remains theoretical until experienced directly.
Give yourself permission to approach the unique voice of each person around you with genuine curiosity. You might be astonished to discover how complementary their viewpoint is to yours, how apparent contradictions actually create a more complete picture when held together.
True collaboration isn't about constant external engagement but about bringing your most authentic self to the table when you do engage. The richest co-creation happens when fully sovereign individuals choose to combine their unique gifts in service of something greater than themselves.
Consider that even when you believe you're working alone, you're actually in constant collaboration with countless seen and unseen forces from the cultural influences that shaped your thinking to the natural systems that support your existence. Complete independence is an illusion, is a myth; interdependence is our true nature.
Ask yourself: What if working "better" isn't actually the highest aim? What if working more meaningfully, more joyfully, and more aligned is the true measure of success? And what if that alignment naturally includes both inwards solo creation and collaborative outwards synergy, each in its perfect season?
Remember that in the beehive structure I propose, your unique voice isn't diluted, it's amplified. Each cell in the hive maintains its integrity while contributing to something magnificent. The old hierarchical structures demanded conformity; the beehive celebrates distinctiveness. When you bring your whole, authentic self to the collective, you don't lose your identity; you discover its deepest purpose.
Tricia Brouk, Founder of The Big Talk Academy
Tricia Brouk helps high-performing professionals transform into industry thought leaders through the power of authentic storytelling. With her experience as an award-winning director, producer, sought after speaker, and mentor to countless thought-leaders, Tricia has put thousands of speakers onto big stages globally. She produced TEDxLincolnSquare in New York City and is the founder of The Big Talk Academy. Tricia’s book, The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean for Lasting Legacy, was a 1 New Release on Amazon in December 2020. Big Stages, the documentary featuring her work with speakers premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival in October of 2023 and her most recent love is the new publishing house she founded, The Big Talk Press.
