My life is very full right now. I'm juggling client work, building StorytellingU, working on a few new ideas, writing this newsletter, and attempting to maintain some semblance of a life outside my laptop. This is not an email about how I dramatically simplified my life and now spend my afternoons reading novels in a sun-drenched chair. I've had seasons like that. This isn't one of them. And in the middle of all this busyness, I've noticed a shift. For years, I've been impressed by people who...

Last week was one of those weeks when everything seemed to land on the calendar at once. I had client work to finish. My mom was visiting. There were dentist appointments. And somewhere in between all of that, I was supposed to write this newsletter. I kept thinking I’d get to it. Then Friday came and went, and I hadn’t. I was annoyed with myself. Maybe even a little nervous. I only recently started sending this newsletter again after ghosting it for far too long. I’ve been consistent for the...

"Have you written anything I’ve read?" It's one of the first questions people ask after I tell them I'm a writer. My answer is almost always the same: “Maybe, but you’d never know it. Most people picture writers as authors, novelists, journalists, or poets. And that's a perfectly reasonable assumption. While I have written a handful of articles with my name on them over the years, most of my work takes a different form. Website copy, newsletters, LinkedIn posts, keynote speeches, course...