Start Here: The Next Level Human Framework Explained

A clear, practical introduction to who we are, what we teach, and how your evolution begins

Who I Am (The Simple Version)

I’m Dr. Jade Teta.
For more than three decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of health, psychology, identity, and human behavior. I’ve been a clinician, a coach, a counselor, a writer, and—more importantly—a human being trying to understand why people change… and why they don’t.

My life hasn’t been a straight line.
It’s been a series of chapters—some painful, some beautiful—that forced me to grow, question myself, and rebuild more times than I expected. But every one of those chapters led to the creation of something I didn’t see coming:

The Next Level Human framework.

This Substack exists because of that framework.
It exists because I believe people are capable of far more than they’ve ever been taught.

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The Story Behind the Work

My background is in lifestyle medicine. From early in my career, I realized that people weren’t struggling because they lacked information. They were struggling because they lacked understanding… of themselves, their patterns, their stories, and the hidden forces that shape every choice they make.

My own struggles taught me this firsthand.

A marriage that didn’t survive.
Business failures that humbled me.
Losses that changed how I saw myself.
Moments where nothing made sense and everything felt like it was slipping.

Through those periods, one truth became clear:

Pain doesn’t just wound you…. it reveals you.
And if you’re willing to listen, it reshapes you.

That realization became the seed of Next Level Human.

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The Core Idea: Your Identity Drives Everything

Most people try to change their life by adjusting habits or fixing symptoms.
But long-term change doesn’t start there.

Change begins with identity—
with the deeper pattern that shapes your thoughts, your behaviors, your reactions, and your results.

This is the foundation of the Next Level Human approach:

You evolve your identity,
your identity evolves your choices,
your choices evolve your life.

When you change from the inside out, everything else finally has a place to land.

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A Simple Introduction to Essentia

You’ll see the word Essentia in my work.
It’s a central idea in the Next Level Human framework because it goes deeper than concepts like purpose or meaning. Essentia is your authentic core… the integrated blend of what shaped you, what drives you, and what calls you forward.

We’ll explore it in depth in other articles, but here’s the simple version…

Essentia is the evolving integration of who you’ve been and who you are—the part of you that turns experience into wisdom and guides you toward your next level self.

It’s not a mystical idea.
It’s the inner architecture that guides your growth, your purpose, and your capacity for change.

Everything on this Substack helps you reconnect with it, strengthen it, and live from it.

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What Next Level Human Actually Teaches

This isn’t a mindset practice.
It’s not therapy.
It’s not self-help in the traditional sense.

Next Level Human is a system for identity evolution built on four interconnected areas:

1. Psychology & Emotional Mastery

Understanding your patterns, triggers, reactions, and subconscious loops.

2. Purpose & Meaning

Finding the direction that aligns with your deeper nature, not the cultural noise around you.

3. Behavior & Self-Leadership

Learning to act from values instead of impulses, fear, or conditioning.

4. Health & Metabolism

Using the body as an expression of identity, not a battlefield of willpower.

You’ll learn how these parts of your life aren’t separate.
They influence each other.
They reinforce each other.
And when integrated, they become the foundation of your growth.

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Why This Matters

Because most people don’t suffer from a lack of potential.
They suffer from a lack of alignment.

They live from old stories.
Old identities.
Old versions of themselves that no longer fit.

If you’re here, there’s a chance you’re already feeling that friction.
Not a sense of who you’re “meant to be”—
but a sense that the material of your life…
your pain, your gifts, your patterns, your history…
is asking to be shaped into something new.

Next Level Human is not about discovering destiny.
It’s about choosing who you become with the raw materials you’ve been given.

Some people get stone and become sculptors.
Some get graph paper and become architects.
Some get watercolors, a canvas, and a story only they can paint.

That’s the work we do here.

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What to Expect From This Substack

Think of this place as a dojo for your inner world.

You’ll get:

• Deep, grounded articles

• Identity-based psychology

• Purpose work

• Emotional storytelling

• Behavioral tools

• Lessons from health and metabolism

• Quantum Metabolism (how identity, belief, and physiology intertwine)

• Real-world applications

• The 6 POWERS framework

• The Human Game (the blueprint for identity evolution)

• Occasional raw stories from my own life and practice

All designed to challenge you, clarify you, and reconnect you to your Essentia.

This is not performative self-improvement.
It’s real evolution.
Slow.
Honest.
Human.
And lasting.

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Where to Start: Two Paths Into This Work

There are two ways to step fully into this ecosystem:

1. The Human Game

This is the foundation for personal transformation.
A full education in awakening, becoming, and being.
Every coaching client begins here because it gives you the worldview, tools, and identity architecture that make real change possible.

If you want to evolve yourself, learn the 6 POWERS, and live from Essentia,
start with The Human Game…. GET ON LIST HERE. (https://www.nextlevelhuman.com/human-coaching)

2. Become a Human Architect

This is professional-level training.
A deep certification for coaches, therapists, helpers, and leaders who want to guide others through identity evolution.
It blends psychology, physiology, purpose work, emotional processing, and your unique Essentia as a practitioner.

If you want to coach at the identity level,
train as a Human Architect.

Either path begins the same way:
with a willingness to grow into the person only you can become.

INQUIRE HERE. (https://www.nextlevelhuman.com/human-coach)

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A Personal Invitation

Whether you’re coming here to heal something, grow something, reclaim something, or discover something… you’re in the right place.

Begin anywhere.
You’re not behind.
Everything you’ve lived is raw material for who you’re becoming.

Welcome to Next Level Human.
Your evolution starts now.

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PS: A Quick Heads Up

I use AI tools as part of my writing process… not to replace my voice, but to support my creativity and refine my ideas. Everything you read here starts with my original concepts, frameworks, and stories; AI simply helps me shape and polish it. I’m hands-on with every line, every idea, every edit. Just wanted you to know how the work is made.