Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
“An empty coffee pot left on the coffee maker will shatter and hurt you.” I remember, but I can’t recall where I heard this as a kid, but it stuck with me. So much so that every morning, after I pour the last drop, I turn the machine off and place the empty pot several…
Years ago, I was sitting on the balcony of my apartment in Brooklyn, unaware of the lesson about to unfold. It was a gorgeous spring day, and the morning routine I’d started in prison was unfolding as the sun peeked over the neighboring apartment buildings. It was me, a single chair (passed from tenant to…
So many high-achievers are silently stuck, successful externally but misaligned internally. I know, because I lived that life. Here’s what inauthentic living cost me, and what I learned reinventing from rock bottom. 1st Half For the first half of my adult life, I was living inauthentically. And I didn’t even know it. I had the…
I worked in corporate sales years ago. My life was a constant chase. Chase the next deal; chase my quota; chase the next shiny object with the commission earned from that deal. I’d chase my to-do list because it was my self-worth measuring stick. At the end of each day, I’d be spent, exhausted, and…
I said I wanted to create, yet obscured that part of myself. I said I wanted freedom yet handcuffed myself to a lifestyle. I said I wanted simplicity but said yes to “nos,” adding complexity to my life. No wonder life felt “off”. No wonder I never felt comfortable in my own skin. No wonder…
We have 2 lives, but how often do we only breathe life into one of them? What are our two lives? The “Should” Life and Our Authentic Life The “Should” life is as it sounds; it’s all the steps and actions we believe we should be taking. Why? To be happy, successful, fit in, and…