Essays and Keynotes by Vincent Zulu
Essays and Keynotes by Vincent Zulu
Okay, let us meet and talk about this:
Alive, Apparently
A gathering for those who suspect there’s more to living than being busy.
Success With Soul Meet-Ups are intimate story circles shaped around a few recurring truths that life keeps returning us to: that pain knows our hearts, that the night carries memories we ignore by day, that we live inside paradoxes we rarely name, and that it is possible to be alive while not fully living.
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Each meet-up is anchored in one of these themes — Pain Knows Our Hearts, The Night Has a Memory of Me, The Paradox of Self-Containing Sets, and The Land of the Walking Dead — not as concepts to be taught, but as experiences to be shared, listened to, and quietly understood.
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These gatherings are not about fixing or performing. They are about slowing down long enough to notice where we are, who we have become, and what might be asking to change.
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This is where success is allowed to speak honestly — and where the soul is finally given time to respond.
The Topics We Explore:
Pain Knows Our Hearts
When life keeps showing up uninvited, it’s usually trying to teach us something.
Pain has an uncanny sense of direction. It always seems to find us, no matter how well we plan, achieve, or stay busy. This is a gentle space to stop outrunning it and ask what it’s been trying to say.
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The Night Has a Memory of Me
What the day forgets, the night remembers.
The day is loud, but the night remembers things we overlook. Dreams, intuitions, and half-formed thoughts appear when we finally stop performing. This gathering listens to what arrives after dark.
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The Paradox of Self-Containing Sets
The structures that hold us together can also hold us in.
We build lives, roles, and systems to keep things working — and sometimes they succeed a little too well. What once protected us quietly becomes the cage. This is a conversation about noticing when it’s time to loosen the walls..
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The Land of the Walking Dead
Busy, productive, applauded — and quietly exhausted.
We wake up, deliver, achieve, repeat — and somewhere along the way forget to live. Everyone looks fine. Everyone is tired. This meet-up asks the awkward question: are we actually alive, or just very organised?
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All Together
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Four themes, one honest question.
Four conversations.
Many stories.
No pressure to arrive anywhere in particular.
Just space to notice what it feels like to be awake again.
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If any of these themes linger with you — not loudly, but quietly — you are already part of the conversation.
The first Success With Soul Meet-Up is simply a place to arrive as you are, without rehearsed answers or polished stories.
Come sit in the circle. Bring your questions, your tiredness, your curiosity. We’ll begin with listening, and see what wants to be said next.



