Newsletter Email: Value Translation Framework You know that moment when someone asks what you do and you hear yourself say "I'm a consultant" or "I'm a photographer" – and something inside you dies a little? The words feel like sawdust in your mouth. You watch their eyes glaze over with that polite-but-distant smile that screams 'next conversation, please'. Meanwhile, you're screaming internally: But I just spent three years helping a struggling tech startup completely restructure their...

Sometimes the clarity fades. Not dramatically. Not all at once. We’ve all been there, lost our way. But slowly. A plan that no longer feels alive. A rhythm that stops making sense. A sense that you’re “off”, without being able to name why. If you’re wired for responsibility (and most of us are), the instinct is to fix. To push harder. To get back on track, fast. But what if there’s nothing to fix? What if this moment, the doubt, the pause, the quiet, isn’t failure, but recalibration? I wrote...

There’s a certain kind of moment that doesn’t get talked about much. The moment when you’re doing all the right things… but something still feels off. The rhythm breaks. The plan doesn’t land. The clarity fades, and you can’t quite see where you’re headed anymore. In those moments, the voice of urgency tends to rise. It tells you to push. To fix. To prove you're not falling behind. But what if that voice isn’t your true guide? What if the pause isn’t a problem? What if it’s just your system,...