A Return to Self
The Real You Is Waiting identity Oct 25, 2026

There I was, mid-conversation, saying something I’d said a hundred times before, when I realized it was a lie....

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Hope Isn’t Pretending change and transitions love and soul Oct 20, 2026

Last year was one of the hardest years of my life.

Between navigating my mom’s decline into dementia and what...

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We’re Not on the Menu fear and aliveness Oct 18, 2026

I never imagined I’d stand so close to a cheetah that I could reach out and touch it.

These were the kinds of...

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Love Is Trying to Reach You: Even on the days you'd glare at it fear and aliveness love and soul Oct 10, 2026

October leaves are changing from green to gold, orange and red, so vibrant they appear to be emanating light f...

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Love Doesn't Compare or Measure: When You Open Your Phone and a Minute Later You Feel Like a Failure identity love and soul Aug 18, 2026

It all starts casually. You open your phone to check a few IG messages, laugh at the video your friend sent yo...

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When the Hardest Person to Trust Is Yourself: The Practice of Choosing Yourself conscious leadership identity Jul 11, 2026

“I’m tired!” my client blurted out.

“I’m so damned tired of all the things I need to do. And the thing is,” s...

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Don't Let AI Become Your God conscious leadership love and soul Jun 13, 2026

The ideas seem to be gone, I thought. Just a blinking cursor. I wait, but the only thing that comes to me feel...

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What If It Was Never About Time? conscious leadership identity Jun 06, 2026

I was standing in the kitchen, rolling a burrito for dinner, asking my youngest to turn off the TV, when I rem...

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Stop Asking What to Do. Ask This Instead. change and transitions identity May 30, 2026

I scroll through my Substack feed and see a note: “Feeling like my life is falling apart in midlife.” And the ...

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The 90s Comeback Your Life and Work Has Been Waiting For fear and aliveness identity May 23, 2026

Let’s take ourselves back to 1994 and learn from one of the least predictable teachers: George Costanza.

Jerr...

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Your Credentials Are Not Your Ceiling: How Belief Built One of the World's Greatest Domes conscious leadership identity May 16, 2026

I peeked out the tiny window on the top floor of our 15th-century Airbnb and saw the Santa Maria del Fiore fro...

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Fold, Don't Stir change and transitions love and soul May 09, 2026

My spoon folded the egg whites into the zabaione when my throat tightened and my eyes started to sting. I didn...

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