About Beacons Global

The origin story of BEACONS GLOBAL begins long before the company itself existed.

The question

It starts with a question Marla Mattenson kept encountering across every arena of her work:

That question showed up first in relationships.

The Intimacy Experts

Through The Intimacy Experts, Marla Mattenson and her love, life and business partner Julian Colker spent years helping entrepreneurial couples understand that love grows through truth, nervous system safety, repair, attunement, play, transparency, and devotion to individual growth that honors their Union.

The same patterns in business

Over time, Marla began noticing something profound:People were experiencing the exact same challenging dynamics in business that they were using in relationships.

• Overgiving.
• People pleasing.
• Fear of rejection or being made wrong.
• Performing for worthiness.
• Avoiding honesty.
• Suppressing intuition.
• Pushing through exhaustion.
• Confusing pressure with success.
• Believing they had to abandon themselves in order to survive.

And perhaps most painfully — the people who cared the deepest often struggled the most.

Who struggled most

• The healers.
• The mystics.
• The guides.
• The highly sensitive people.
• The transformational practitioners.
• The conscious leaders dedicated to bringing more healing into the world.

The very people most devoted to helping humanity were often depleted from burnout, financial ceilings, nervous system dysregulation, visibility fears, scarcity patterns, and deep loneliness in business.Many of them were first-generation entrepreneurs breaking lineage patterns around money, work, safety, and self-expression.They knew they were called to something bigger. They could feel it.And yet the traditional business world often felt manipulative, disconnected, performative, harsh, and profoundly misaligned with who they truly were.At the same time, many "spiritual" or "energetic" spaces lacked grounded structures, ethical frameworks, relational accountability, and regenerative business models.Something was missing.

The feedback experiment

Marla felt this and began a deeply tender reflection process to uncover personally what felt off.She reached out to former clients to ask for feedback about working together. Not just any feedback — Marla specifically requested the feedback be limited to only the negative kind: what was off about working together, what grains of sand were still present years later that even though they got great results from working together, were there moments that didn't feel aligned.Marla wanted to know the whole truth, not just the smiles and gratitudes.She received feedback from 15 past clients via recorded video conference, then studied the recordings like a scientist to look for the common themes, through lines and subtleties across each person's expression.This experience was humbling and changed Marla.Even though she is dedicated to clarity, kindness and being a force for good, she recognized that she needed even more refined levels of ethical and consent-based practices.That realization became the beginning of the Ethical Sales Institute.

Ethical Sales Institute

Marla began teaching that sales could become relational, ethical, nervous-system-informed, and deeply connective.The trinity of Ethical Sales was born:

Through this work, soulful entrepreneurs began experiencing a transformative shift:You do not have to choose between making money and being a good person. You do not have to abandon your humanity in order to build a thriving business.

The energetics of business

And yet over time, another realization began emerging:Sales is not the whole story.Underneath every sales challenge was something deeper:

• trust
• visibility
• receiving
• self-worth
• leadership
• boundaries
• relationships
• timing
• burnout
• repair
• nervous system safety
• fear of being seen
• fear of success
• fear of failure
• fear of power
• fear of disappointing others

Marla realized she wasn't simply teaching ethical sales. She was teaching the Energetics of Business.The unseen dynamics underneath conversations, leadership, money, pricing, relationships, creativity, conflict, visibility, intuition, decision-making, and expansion.And at the same time, she realized something equally important: most people teaching energetics did not have the grounded internal structures to support regenerative business growth.That realization became the true ignition point of BEACONS GLOBAL.

The ignition point

BEACONS GLOBAL was created for the people who know the world is far more expansive than what we can perceive through the five senses alone.

• The people who can feel energy in rooms.
• Who sense what is unspoken beneath conversations.
• Who understand that trust, timing, safety, intention, presence, and nervous systems shape every human interaction, from personal to professional.

The people building businesses rooted in healing, transformation, intimacy, creativity, consciousness, and possibility.The people healing their own past so they can finally feel free to shine fully in the world.The people who are no longer willing to build success through self-abandonment.BEACONS GLOBAL exists to help these visionaries bridge energetics and structure.

• To help them develop the nervous system capacity to hold greater visibility, wealth, leadership, intimacy, impact, and receiving.
• To teach ethical, relational, regenerative ways of building business.
• To create spaces where intuition and strategy coexist.
• Where healing and prosperity coexist.
• Where humanity and leadership coexist.
• Where mistakes are valued.
• Where repair is honored.
• Where sensitivity becomes a strength instead of a liability.

You are the Beacons

Most importantly — BEACONS GLOBAL exists to remind people they are not alone, that they are part of contributing to our new emerging paradigm of business through their profound gifts and service.For so many conscious entrepreneurs, healers, and highly sensitive leaders, the journey can feel isolating. They often feel like lone wolves carrying visions they struggle to explain to the people around them.BEACONS GLOBAL is designed to feel like home, recognition, and an answer to a prayer.A gathering place for the people devoted to helping humanity heal, evolve, reconnect, and remember what truly matters.A place where they can build meaningful wealth while remaining fully connected to their integrity, intuition, relationships, and deepest humanity.Because the future belongs to the people willing to lead differently.And those people — YOU — are the BEACONS.Shine your light in the world. We need you and your work more than ever.