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Liberate your story to liberate our best collective futures. Join 275+ heart-led change-makers in nurturing our paradigm-shifting narratives.

Examine what it means to serve our communities as compassionate leaders, founders, and creatives. Tap into your stories and make time to reflect on your lived experiences & inner wisdom. Stay inspired to write & speak. Explore authentic ways to connect with & care for yourself & others. Join the conversation as I share lessons, questions, & insights from my journey growing my mission-driven business!

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Rejection as Resonance

(4-5 min read) I opened a rejection email this morning. It made me smile. Last week, I submitted a short narrative “I Let Myself Be a Voice” to a well-known author’s Submittable, after seeing her call for submissions for short personal narratives on Threads. I had just finished putting out my story workbook, Find Yourself Here, and this was the last story I’d written as a supporting example story for one of the 25 story prompts inside. I hadn't been ready to write this story last May when my...
17 days ago • 4 min read

My book is finally here 🥹 - Find Yourself Here: A Story Workbook for Self-Inquiry & Self-Expression *towards collective liberation*/

*Deep breath* I'm launching this book so imperfectly. No launch sequence, no fancy marketing material. I'm just so happy it's ready & I'm ready to share my joy. To be clear, the book is as close to perfect as I would want it... (considered, labored on, love-filled, and as imperfect as we are)... I've poured so much into it over the last couple of months. What started as a story prompts packet took on a life of its own and has now become a whole 2-version eBook, my first paid resource. My...
29 days ago • 1 min read
"I hope you find yourself here."

Seeds of Radical Creativity: What miracles happen when you don't ignore that spark of imagination?

I know it's a lot going on out there. Every day brings new headlines of conflict, displacement, and environmental crisis. Our social media feeds overflow with urgent calls to action, while our inboxes flood with marketing messages telling us to hustle harder, share more, build bigger. Meanwhile, many of us may be quietly (or not so quietly) struggling with burnout, disconnection, and a deep yearning for a different way of being in this world. In times like these, when the path forward seems...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read

How I write when writing feels hard

Overcoming inertia is hard. One of the unexpected side effects of growing this newsletter has been losing the reckless abandon I had when I first started. 10 months into this newsletter, everything feels...bigger...now. (And sometimes more daunting.) So when I set out to migrate my list from Kajabi to Kit, when I made the mistake of telling myself the next email had to be sent after migration, when the drafts for this email began to pile up in my brain & journal... ...suddenly sending this...
3 months ago • 4 min read

Examine what it means to serve our communities as compassionate leaders, founders, and creatives. Tap into your stories and make time to reflect on your lived experiences & inner wisdom. Stay inspired to write & speak. Explore authentic ways to connect with & care for yourself & others. Join the conversation as I share lessons, questions, & insights from my journey growing my mission-driven business!