ISSUE 89 25 JUNE 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, This week, I taught a leadership program over two consecutive evenings. Four in the afternoon until ten at night, twice over. And I'll confess, I felt a bit tired. You know the feeling. The kind of tired where you are bargaining with yourself about how much you actually have to give (plus my Oura ring was signaling the same). So I made a decision before I started. I was going to bring energy into that room, whether I felt it or not. Being...
11 days ago • 2 min read
ISSUE 88 17 JUNE 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, Earlier this week, I was in Anaheim, CA. And while I was there, I sat down for a bowl of poke across from someone who reminded me of something I've forgotten. She is a founder. A Yale graduate. Probably half my age. She ordered her bowl like she had nowhere else to be and nothing to prove, and then she started talking about the company she is building. I had come straight from running the first session of a four-part career masterclass. Still in...
19 days ago • 3 min read
ISSUE 87 4 JUNE 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, I saw something this week that I made. Except my name wasn't on it. The shape of the idea, the order of the points, and a phrase I had worked hard to get right. All of it there, just wearing someone else's jacket. I sat with a complicated little feeling for a while. Part flattered. Part deflated. Part wondering, again, why I give so much of it away. And it isn't the first time. A framework I spent months on, showing up elsewhere with the corners...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
ISSUE 86 27 MAY 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, I just booked a trip. Ten flights in total. I know. It probably took me fifteen hours (researching, comparing, rerouting, compromising on dates that neither of us loved) before I finally hit confirm. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, I realized something that should have been obvious from the start. My husband and I had both agreed on the same trip. We did not want the same trip. I wanted a beach. Preferably a yoga retreat. Preferably in...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
ISSUE 85 20 MAY 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, I caught myself doing it again. Hot chocolate with chia seeds in hand, not even properly sat down yet, and I was scrolling. Headline after headline. Each one a bit more depressing than the last. By the time I looked up, ten minutes had gone by. And I felt worse than when I started. Not better informed. Just meh. It is a strange way to begin a day. I suspect I am not the only one doing it. Here is what I have been noticing lately, in myself and in...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
ISSUE 84 14 MAY 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, On Monday morning, I made a hot chocolate and forgot to drink it. Twenty minutes later, I was still standing in my kitchen in a hoodie and yoga pants (my Seattle uniform), holding a cup that had gone cold in my hand. I had not moved. My body felt tight. My brain was scanning for what was next. Half-loaded smile already in place, even though there was no one in the room. For the first time in three weeks, nothing was being asked of me that required...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
ISSUE 84 14 MAY 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, On Monday morning, I made a hot chocolate and forgot to drink it. Twenty minutes later, I was still standing in my kitchen in a hoodie and yoga pants (my Seattle uniform), holding a cup that had gone cold in my hand. I had not moved. My body felt tight. My brain was scanning for what was next. Half-loaded smile already in place, even though there was no one in the room. For the first time in three weeks, nothing was being asked of me that required...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
purpose. pathfinders. ISSUE 83 22 APRIL 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, Last Thursday, I chose fifteen people. That's the short version. The longer version is that I spent Thursday morning on a video call, finalizing a list I'd been building in my head for weeks. Fifteen leaders whose applications I'd been reading and rereading while walking the dog, while brushing my teeth, while half-listening to podcasts. Some I'd never met. Some I already knew. All of them, in different ways, inspiring. By...
3 months ago • 4 min read
ISSUE 82 15 APRIL 2026 | READ ONLINE Hi Reader, In 10 days, I walk into the first of three major speaking engagements for April. There are workbooks going to the printer. Slide decks to wrap up. Speaker dinners I haven't fully thought about yet. That nervousness of wondering whether I'll show up the way people are expecting. So yesterday, I took the day off. Not because everything was done. It wasn't. Not because someone told me to. Nobody did. My body just stopped. It signaled clearly enough...
3 months ago • 2 min read