Being You and Free

<p>How we respond under pressure, who we reach for, and how much we rely on others often comes down to how supported we felt as children.</p><p>Some people move through the world feeling more secure. Others have to...

<p>I thought I knew Trevor Noah’s story. I didn’t.</p><p>When I read Born a Crime, what stayed with me most wasn’t apartheid or even his survival skills.</p><p>It was his mother.</p><p>A woman who wasn’t afraid to break...

<p>We choose our homes based on schools, safety, and square footage.But we rarely ask: what kind of life can I live here?</p><p>In this episode, I share what I learned the hard way.</p><p>When I moved from Chicago to...

<p>Inside a luxury store in India, I caught myself asking a simple question:Is this who I’m becoming?</p><p>I don’t want my growth to be about owning things. I want it to be about unlocking parts of me I haven’t yet...

<p>Every Saturday morning, after a full week of creating, I feel completely empty.</p><p>This week, I’m making sense of that feeling and why it might be an essential part of the rhythm, not a problem to fix.</p><p>If...

<p>We don’t like to admit when we feel envious. It can feel uncomfortable, even a little embarrassing.</p><p>But what if envy is trying to show us something?</p><p>In this episode, I explore how paying attention to who...

<p>I’ve spent a lot of time understanding myself—why I react the way I do, what triggers me, what I should do differently.</p><p>And yet, in intense moments, none of that seems to matter.</p><p>In this episode, I...

<p>I went to San Francisco for two days to escape mom mode and borrow some of the city’s energy.</p><p>What I didn’t expect was to go around the world without ever boarding a plane.</p><p>During those two days, I had...

<p>I finally played the song right and there was no celebration.</p><p>In this week’s episode, I talk about what it’s like to learn the violin as an adult after spending most of my career in the corporate world. When...

<p>Educated left a deep impression on me. So much stayed with me after reading it, about how one person’s beliefs can shape an entire family, dictating how they live, what they wear, and what they eat.</p><p>Tara...

<p>There was a time when I woke up every morning feeling like something had gone wrong. Even on vacation, I couldn’t fully disconnect from work.</p><p>It took leaving corporate to realize how much my nervous system had...

<p>Are you more like your mother or your father? In this episode, I explore how growing up between two very different ways of being shaped me and how we get to carry parts of our parents forward while becoming...

<p>We’re not given a rulebook for life. Most of us learn what really matters through our mistakes, strained relationships, and poor choices.</p><p>I’ve been one of them.</p><p>I built my compass the hard way, through...

<p>In this reflection, I explore what it looks like when we coast through life versus take ownership of our story. We accept invitations we don’t want. We say yes to relationships that drain us. We take jobs that don’t...

<p>I was driving when I noticed a bumper sticker on the car ahead of me. It read: “Heavily Meditated.”</p><p>In this week’s episode, I reflect on how easily we attach ourselves to a single identity, whether it’s a job...