As we age, we acquire – until we have to let go. I’ve written previous pieces about downsizing, hoarcruxes (belongings holding your energy), and the freedom of owning very little. As someone whose life fits into two suitcases . . .

For years, I’ve seen myself owning a cafe. Moving small town, somewhere quaint and charming and enjoying a simple life.

I am slowly making my way through Miki Agrawal's book Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman, and I fell in love with this graph.

Paulo Coelho wrote, “The gateway to paradise lies in working with enthusiasm.” – The Pilgrimage, p. 269. This was before he was a best-selling author. This was before The Alchemist.

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?

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.

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.

My takeaway from Laura Storm’s TEDx Talk: How silence can lead us to a sustainable world