The other day, someone asked me why I had taken the time to mow my neighbour’s lawn while I was already mowing mine. On the surface, it was a simple question. But it gave me pause. Not because I didn’t know the answer, but because the question revealed more than it intended. It wasn't really … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2025
The Quiet Advantage of Not Knowing
We live in a time where knowing is everything. Knowledge is currency, speed is advantage, and expertise is the performance everyone is expected to give, all the time. If you’re not in the loop, you're out of the game. Or so we’re told. But there’s a different kind of power that doesn’t show … [Read more...]
This Conference Feels Like an Indian Wedding – And That’s Exactly Why It Works
I’m writing this from a quiet spot just outside the hustle of Illuminate 2025. The hum of conversation, the footsteps, the energy - it’s all still fresh in the air around me. My dear friend Tracey Vavrek, who embodies grace and leadership in equal measure, and who with her team was our amazing … [Read more...]
The Ones Who Carried Us: Why Parents Matter
In a world that celebrates independence and speed, it is worth pausing for a moment to acknowledge the astonishing fact that human beings are born into perhaps the longest, most vulnerable dependence of any species on earth. We arrive into this world utterly unready. We can’t walk. We can’t talk. We … [Read more...]
The Swipe Test: If Trust Starts Online, Where Are You?
There was a time when proximity was destiny. We worked with the people we lived near, fell in love with the ones we bumped into at events or in lecture halls, and trusted those we saw every day. Familiarity bred connection. But we no longer live in that world. Today, our first impressions are … [Read more...]
The Only Kind of a True Friend
is the kind that knows you even when you forget yourself. Not all friendships are built to last. Many are circumstantial. Some are seasonal. Others feel eternal, until they aren’t. We’ve all seen connections fade when the titles change, the usefulness expires, the party ends, or the … [Read more...]
I Don’t Wait for Friday, and I Don’t Chase Fun
People are often confused when I tell them that I don’t work in the way they’re asking about. The question usually comes with friendly curiosity: “You work hard. So, what do you do for fun?” And my answer seems to throw them off every time: “Not sure what you are asking, but I have fun all the … [Read more...]
It’s Enough That You Yourself Know
There’s a quiet dignity in not needing to explain yourself. In a world that rewards performance and punishes pause, it’s become rare to trust silence, rarer still to trust someone else’s. But every so often, you meet a moment, or a person, where explanation is unnecessary. And in that rare … [Read more...]
When Everything Breaks, Start With One Kept Promise
We talk a lot about reinvention as if it’s a grand unveiling, a heroic transformation, a phoenix moment. But for most people, reinvention doesn’t look like that. It looks like survival. It looks like walking barefoot over broken glass with nothing but a thread of belief that maybe - just maybe - … [Read more...]