Yesterday I attended the first day of Ecoversity's Herbal Summit to hear Miki Agrawal’s presentation on Soft Power: Redefining Leadership for the Next Era.

Whilst a part of me groaned at how I had spent a week in the ebbs of flows of “It’s fine. It’s going to be great!” and “I feel very alone on this” – a louder part of me was able to see that the timeline of red flags had shortened. I had caught and addressed them sooner.

1. The Overly Grateful Yes
2. The Easy Agree
3. The Informed Negotiation
4. The Embodied Magnet

As someone with a Core Gift (Core Gift Institute) of helping others to step into their fullest expression — I know it well. Because I’ve lived it. The steps of personal and collective evolution follow the same pattern: 1. Repressed → 2. Radical → 3. Regulated

I have been thinking about the privilege I hold in my feelings about September. As the sun feels slower and hotter late into the day. As the morning has a crispness. I feel the familiar buzz in the air of new beginnings. There’s a dazzling crackle. Why?

My summer has been a season of introspection, a routine reboost, and a time of tough feelings. Like many women 35+, my hormone health is loud and begging to be addressed, and when I've looked into what is possible to change within my means, at this time, it's an emphasis on increasing plant diversity in my diet, going to bed at a regular time (this is hard for me), and scheduling time for gratitude.

Earlier this year, someone arrived in my inbox offering me an opportunity I had long dreamt of. It had promise, it had meaning, and it was set up in such a way that I would have complete freedom to curate how we would work together.

If you are stuck – you are in a masterclass of learning how you best work. Stuck = an exodus from work; a feeling of being universally unemployable and disinterested in everything work-related, directionless in the pursuit of a career. My lived theory is that you are learning how you best work when the rules are stripped away.

In a world of political turbulence, pension chaos and a whole host of depressing unknowns, it is extremely grounding to have access to a parallel world where we know who the guide is – Taylor. She has vision and control. And our destination is guaranteed to be euphoric.

It’s not about universal likeability, it’s about accurately translating the essence of the author/creator/founder/investor and creating a magnet for those meant to receive it. It’s a dissonance detector and resonance attractor.

I was in a conscious business course yesterday, and the thought leader said, “I don’t do things for clients. I do what I want and then decide who do I want to receive it.” I’ve sat with this idea for 24 hrs. now and I feel differently about my own way of working.

I was watching Netflix’s newest crime series, Untamed, and there’s a scene where the rookie cop says, “Probably just wasting time chasing these.” In the context of searching through a database for possible Jane Doe’s.

Before you enter, take a moment to think of one thing you’d like to leave behind and exclude from this space. When you have it, infuse it into your belonging (a coat, a scarf, a bag). And let it hold the weight for now. Before you is a threshold, and when you cross it, the spell is cast.

Can you be a taste-making generalist? 💅 I think so. Today I asked ChatGPT: How do I get paid for my taste? And while 98% of it was useless, I enjoyed the prompt: What does my taste do?

I’m curious about the term “Generalist” Because, as someone who’s been searching for “the right words” in all that I can do, I feel seen and encompassed by this word. Often, people see me as the most competent person in the room. And I feel like there is literally nothing I can’t do.

Nicky Haslam, a prolific UK interior designer and socialite, has a plastic bird scarer from B&Q (think Home Depot) that he spray-painted white. Most people who see it in his home assume it’s an 18th-century porcelain statue.

I am very interested right now in using the 3D to make behaviour change. Aka, rather than introducing frameworks, meditations, or new ways of thinking, I’m much more interested in what I can move in the three-dimensional, tactile, and earth element to initiate change. Avoiding mental discipline altogether.

I visited my dear friend Pini’s 4th floor flat in Berlin, where I undertook a gardening development project of her balcony. Using my development strategy of 80/10/10 (see my last post for reference), here’s how it went down . . .

In thinking about this next newsletter, I have bounced between the practices I’m currently doing . . . but – then I thought, what did my trip gift me? What did 5 weeks of pivoting, between the UK, Spain, Austria, France, and Germany, teach me? 

I’m obsessed with betterment: personal, professional, spatial, relational – you name it, I’m into it. I have found with friends, family and clients that when they ask for my help, they see their project as half-baked; sitting at 50%.