unexpected pauses, a cake crusade, and the myth of me-free businesses

There's a graveyard in my notes app... (and at least a few drawers in my office.) Maybe yours too? 📓 Bullet journals that lasted exactly 13 days. ⏰ Time-blocking calendars abandoned after the first sick day. ☀️ Morning routines that died the moment daylight saving hit. 📱 Productivity apps downloaded with hope—and then deleted in frustration. Subscribe to keep reading this post n...

What goes together like the last dregs of summer and poolside reading? Fall back-to-business rush + burnout.  It's that time of year where everyone is looking forward, closing out summer mentally and putting the pedal to the metal before we hit the holidays.  Which also means, me and my 1:1 clients are revisiting burnout basics. Subscribe to keep reading this post newsletter-pos...

I always get sentimental this time of year. Maybe it's all those years of back-to-school conditioning or maybe it's because my birthday sits right at the threshold between summer's permission and fall's structure...  Either way, August often ends up feeling more like a fresh start than January ever does. I'll be turning 36 at the end of the week and I've been reflecting more about what I've bee...