Financial Well-being: How well do you manage your money?
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “it’s a disaster” and 10 being “I can account for every penny”, give yourself a rating for the statement: I manage my money well. How ...
The “Why” behind Totally Wise Workshops
The moment I became a parent I developed an awareness and intentionality to live with presence, integrity, and curiosity as an example for my children. This intrinsic force shaped my priorities and behaviors and launched ...
How to Create a Well-being Strategy
In Why You Need a Well-being Strategy I made the case for how the systems we live and work in are not designed to promote and foster well-being, and as a result we as a ...
My word of the year: Fuck!
Over the past ten years my partner, Tim, has been a witness (and sounding board) for my crazy ideas, dreams, pivots, challenges, accomplishments, and resilience. He recently brought to my attention that I am living ...
Why You Need a Well-being Strategy
Well-being is clearly having a moment, but what’s bothering me is this: We, as a people, are not well. This post shares why I believe you need a personal well-being strategy to ensure a life well-lived on your terms.
Unlocking Our Totally Wise Power
Every day for the past ten years I have thought about how I can unify my life experience as an artist, teacher, yogi, explorer, marketer, and entrepreneur to help people craft their unique quality of ...
Reflections on my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage
During the spring and summer of 2023 I experienced some challenging life situations, several of which I wrote about in this two-part story. To sum it up: I was feeling ungrounded and with a sense ...
Truth in Sedona, Arizona – Part 2
We left Sedona near the end of January and headed to Phoenix where the plan was to spend two weeks at my mom’s house where we would reset on what was next in our drive-about ...
Truth in Sedona, Arizona – Part 1
Sedona, Arizona was the third stop on our drive-about where we planned our 7-week stay on the west side of town in a house at the base of Thunder Mountain. We arrived on a beautiful ...
Utah and the Strength of Stone
The shift in energy from Montana to Utah was palpable. It began with the Utah AirBnB host giving us grief (and a biased bill) for our dogs to be included in the reservation, followed by ...
But first, Montana.
Four weeks ago, my partner Tim, our two dogs, and I embarked on what we are calling “the great drive-about”. We gave up our house in the Seattle suburbs, purged a lot of our stuff, ...
What is possible when we thrive at work?
My son recently began his first job and within a month had an experience with his manager that left him feeling confused, frustrated, and worried. When listening to my son explain the situation, I tried ...
A Conscious Revolution: Up Level the Experience of Work
There is a revolution underway, and it calls for conscious leadership as a means to uplevel the human experience in business and work. It is being led by people who no longer accept being cogs ...
9/11 Remembrance and a Call to Action
Today is the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the worst terrorist attacks in our country’s history. For the last several months I’ve been thinking about documenting my experience, planning ahead to have something ready to publish ...
Experimenting with Task Batching for Flow and Calm
Right now, I’m thinking about batching my time, meaning to lump similar tasks or activities together in time blocks throughout the day. Aside from the practical productivity hack, I’m sure that my desire is to ...
A Kickstart Guide to Creating Work You Love
I’ve felt a rush of energy lately to become very clear with what I’ve learned on my quest for work I love and what it means for myself and others. For over three years I’ve ...
What’s Fear Got To Do With It
I recently took stock of the key elements and inspirations that have become foundational in the self inquiry journey that I’ve been on during the last several years. When collected, there was a common emotion ...
20 Things I Discovered, Learned, or Loved in 2020
In no particular order this post highlights my ah-ha moments of the past year. It was a good exercise in reflecting on a year that was like no other and for also helping me to ...
My Path to Karma Leadership
Thinking back to the moment that I made the decision to be the leader I wanted to have, I recall that it was during a discussion I was having with an human resources manager. I ...
It’s a Good Time to Dream
As an escape from reality, I’ve been daydreaming about a vision that has been on my mind over the past three years. I’ve kept this vision mostly to myself, but in light of the many ...