Welcome to the Vital Shift

You've achieved success. Do you love your work? Do you love your life?

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You’ve achieved success. The credentials are solid. The title impressive. You’ve built a life that checks all the right boxes.

So why do you wake up feeling just... fine? Not outstanding. Not alive. Just fine.

I’m Carolyn Regan. I’ve spent my career helping organizations build people-first cultures and coaching leaders at every level. Here’s what I’ve learned: the best leaders, and the most fulfilled humans, aren’t the ones chasing productivity or bigger goals. They’re the ones doing their internal work.

Because whether you’re leading a company, a team, or a family, energy is contagious.

The best cultures—and the best lives—are built by people who refuse to simply survive.

But somewhere along the way, most of us built our lives by accident. We followed the shoulds. We chased the carrots. We climbed ladders other people set in front of us. And now we’re standing at the top wondering:

Is this it? Is this what I wanted?

This newsletter is about designing work and lives that give you energy.

Every Saturday, I’ll share one small shift to help you move from autopilot to aliveness. We’re not talking about quitting your job or blowing up your life. We’re talking about rethinking what you’ve built, and reshaping it around what fuels you in your work, your relationships, your health, your days.

Here’s what we’ll explore together:

• Building work, relationships, and rhythms that feel alive, not draining

• When the life you built no longer fits and what to do about it

• The need for a power pause

• How to lead and live with intention instead of obligation

• Why your restlessness is a signal, not a symptom

• How to stop impressing others and start energizing yourself

• The tiny shifts that create lasting change

This isn’t cookie-cutter self-help. It’s for accomplished people who know that success without aliveness + connection is just exhausting.

You’ve spent years building external credibility. Now it’s time to build internal clarity and vitality.

The shift starts Saturday.

Welcome to creating a life you don’t need to escape from.

— Carolyn