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On Authorship, Freedom, and Choosing On Your Own Terms I watched this happen with a friend recently. She stepped away from her corporate role thinking she was finished. Burned out. Done. Ready for something completely different. A reinvention of sorts. What she discovered instead surprised her. She wasn’t ready to stop working. She was ready to stop being undervalued. And to stop coasting in her current role, hoping to make it to some distant retirement finish line. So she di

The Guardrails You Didn't Know You Were Building By Last week, my husband and I found ourselves standing inside a next chapter question: Do we knock down our vintage, 900-square-foot cottage… and rebuild? We’re not worried about craftsmanship. My brother-in-law is an incredible builder. If we decide to do this, the house itself will be stunning. What we are worried about is something else entirely. Because if you’ve ever built or renovated anything, you know this part: It’s

The Missing Finish Line Growing up, my parents had a beach house. Not a fancy one. A lived-in one. Sandy floors. Damp towels slung over the back deck railings. A garage fridge with an extension cord run from the house, nicknamed the magic fridge, always stocked with beers by Friday. Everyone was welcome on weekends. Friends. Friends of friends. Cousins who showed up unannounced. By Friday night the house was full. By Sunday afternoon it emptied itself, like the tide pulling b

There’s a version of growth mindset most of us learn early in our lives. Work harder. Learn more. Improve constantly. Prove you belong. That version works. It builds capability. It opens doors. It gets you somewhere. But at a certain chapter, it stops being enough. Not because you’ve stopped growing. But because growth starts asking a different question. Growth, Reclaimed In this chapter of life, growth isn’t about becoming more impressive. It’s about becoming more free . Fre