WHY SUBSCRIBE?
I'm a founder at Wise Systems who's learned that talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn't.
I write about stress, ambition, and why your feelings lie to you — and it’s relationship with power for 30,000 readers.
In grad school, I got thrown on stage after Barbara Walters, in front of thousands. I was terrified. I did it anyway. My dad called after: “Want to speak at big forums?” I said yes. He said “Study it.” Not “Wait until you’re ready.”
I wasn’t the best speaker up there with Hillary Clinton and Laurene Powell Jobs. But I wasn’t afraid to act before I felt prepared.
That’s the difference.
Your response to stress is the most consequential thing in your life. Your stress tolerance determines whether challenges make you shut down or step up. Your feelings are unreliable data — emotions evolved for survival, not success.
I write direct, research-backed insights on perfectionism, hope, shame, and the psychological traps that keep ambitious people stuck. I write about hard truths about what it actually takes to move forward. Most of which stem from my experience or what I see as a founder.
Here's what you'll get: Unfiltered lessons I wish someone had shared with me when I was grinding my way up. Direct talk about ambition, growth, and the psychological traps that sabotage success.
HERE ARE A FEW POSTS
Are you boring enough to be successful?
Close your eyes and imagine you are 95 years old. You are given a day to revisit your present self.
10 lessons that changed the way I think
It’s my birthday. I am 40. The last decade has been action packed — I started a business, a family, I have stood alongside loved ones in illness, and have lived through many beautiful moments.
Your only limit is how you perceive yourself
Recently I was at a talent show at my kids' camp. My daughter walked up to me and said "I am singing!"
EVERY WEEK, I BREAK DOWN POWER WITH TOPICS LIKE:
Why perfectionism destroys hope (and what actually works)
How shame drives inaction (and how to break the cycle)
The psychological traps keeping you stuck (backed by research, not feelings)
Data shows that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity clearly isn't. People from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and women face systemic barriers that have nothing to do with ability. That drives me.
LEARN WITH ME
As I go through the daily grind of building a company, I articulate what I learn as a way to slow down and process. For the first time, I am sharing my vault.
I write on productivity
I write on leadership
I occasionally review products I love as a professional
And I share workflows
WELCOME TO MY COMMUNITY
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