Hello lovey humans, If you're new to our newsletter, welcome. Each week we feature remarkable people making big changes to their lives. Whether it's coming back from a brain tumor, burnout, or navigating grief, these people all have something to teach us. These are people we've go to know personally, and they are people just like you. If you'd like to read the archived stories, please visit the site. This week, we follow Martin's story. Martin Eriksson decided the way home to himself was to...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Hello lovely humans, Amie Stevens spent more than twenty years climbing to the top of her game. Having grown up with epilepsy and endured brain surgery, she had to overcome serious challenges to get there. Then, in a matter of days, the company she had given her life to disappeared. This is her story. The identity you don’t see This is a story about identity. For most of her adult life, Amie thought she knew exactly what her future would look like. More than two decades in banking across New...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hello lovely humans, This week we meet Julia Parsons. At the height of her corporate journey, she helped take a company public. When she went looking for a piece of jewelry to mark the kind of milestone most people spend a whole career chasing, she couldn’t find a single brand that understood why a woman would buy it for herself. So, disappointingly she didn’t buy anything. But she didn't forget. This is her story. The Definition of Success Is Dated For most of her life, Julia knew exactly...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello lovely humans, This time last year Megan was on the brink of her biggest inflection point in her professional career and there was no clear path ahead. "I didn’t know what was next," says Megan. "I was going through a CEO transition trying to figure out my new normal and it was taking a toll on me mentally and physically." Reset versus recreate If you’ve run a company, you know the inflection point she's talking about. The thing you built with your name and your nervous system wired...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello lovey humans, Marissa spent years inside a prestigious job that signaled to her that she was doing well. Turns out those signals were the problem. "I achieved every promotion one could get at the firm. The last one, Senior Partner, came about two and a half years ago. It should have felt like a mountaintop moment. Instead, when I got the news, I fell into what I can only describe as a nearly two-day depression." Now she's building something very different. This is Marissa's story. The...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hello lovey humans, If you've ever had a childhood dream that seemed too crazy to imagine coming true, then this one is for you. This one is about a boy who dreamed of owning an island in a lake. This is Randy's story. The Dream Randy's family has been on Long Lake in Naples, Maine. Since the 1960s, when his grandparents built Ricker’s Resort, summers have been spent on the water, winters ice fishing and snowboarding at Pleasant Mountain. He learned to swim in that lake. Learned to fish in...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hello lovely humans, Lisa Gibbons met her reckoning on a Monday morning in Carcassonne, France. Flat on her back in an Airbnb, fully conscious, fully aware, but unable to move or speak a word. A brain aneurysm and a stroke had paralyzed the right side of her body and shut down her speech and cognition. The Lisa I knew was the life of the party. Pure joy. Flying around the world at the drop of a hat. Effervescent is the word that comes to mind. We worked together for a few years, and my...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hello lovey humans, After a phenomenal Spring Summit, we're back to our regularly scheduled stories of people designing their next chapter. This week is Roger's story. Note: At the end of this story is a private link to Roger's film Into The Dragon's Lair. Roger and I knew each other in Cape Town, back when we were both tangled up in our digital marketing careers. He went on to be a corporate over-achiever. I was running my own version of the venture funded hustle. When I moved to the States,...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hi lovely humans, I signed the papers last week. The house I've lived in for a decade years has been sold. It's someone else’s memory-maker now, someone else’s Thanksgiving stories. For that reason, we'll be skipping the usual Second Harvesters story. I’m writing this from somewhere between here and the next chapter. Sounds romantic but mostly just means you can’t find the coffee mugs. The choice to downsize and donate most of my belongings is part of an idea I've embraced called via...
5 months ago • 1 min read