My Story
I've never been good at sticking to one thing.
I got two master’s degrees. Worked in public health. Built a business. Ended that business. Started another. Wrote grants for nonprofits. Consulted with founders. Managed brand communications. Was fired. Helped build an app. Was hired. Led a community. Opened a store. And that's the short list.
For a long time, I thought all of that range was something I needed to explain. I had the dream job, saw how my whole life could play out, and was devastated when I had to admit that the only way to achieve that would require losing myself.
What I couldn't see then was how much bigger my life could get when I stopped trying to package all of me into a perfectly legible container.
Today I host a podcast, advise brilliant people, write, travel, parent, start things, quit things, and follow an idea simply because I can't stop thinking about it (sometimes all in a single day). While it still doesn't make sense to many, I'm obsessively dialed in to what matters now.
You could say I have a thing for work.
I’m endlessly fascinated by what we do with our lives—and especially the role work plays in them.
Why we choose what we choose. Why we stay long after something stops fitting. Why being good at something can make it harder to leave. What happens when ambition changes shape. Why some people seem perfectly content to do one thing forever while others have 10,000 tabs open wondering what else might be possible.
I've spent years interviewing founders, executives, creatives, physicians, entrepreneurs, and everyday people about their work and lives. And I've spent just as much time interrogating my own. That curiosity is behind my book. My podcast. The people I work with. And, frankly, most of the conversations I want to have.
I’m interested
in the humans
behind the brands.
The people outgrowing the language they’ve been using for themselves.
The ones trying to articulate something they can feel deeply but
haven’t fully claimed yet. That’s the pattern I’m searching for.
Speaking
I love going deep fast. If it’s the part of the conversation people usually save until after the microphone is off, I probably want to talk about it live.
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