Let's Play

One of Alessandra’s clients, a CFO who sits at the top of her field, calls the sharpest thing she does asking dumb questions. Alessandra refuses to let her keep that word. Derrick walks into the episode holding a question of his own. He spent the afternoon pressing prompts onto cards for an event where strangers sit down and talk for no reason other than the conversation, and he opens by asking Al...

Alessandra opens this episode on an endorphin high and measuring it against the low she was in that morning and the lower one the day before. The topic she brings is energy: how it swings, what swings it, and whether any of us actually get a say in the matter. Derrick had been circling the same question through a different door all morning , thinking about frequency, vibration, and the idea that y...

Two coaches. One question. More honesty than either of them planned for. In Episode 3 of Let’s Play, Derrick brings the topic, and it sounds deceptively simple until it isn’t. What turns your power switch on? What turns it off? What separates showing up at full wattage from flickering at a fraction of your actual light? What follows is one of the most personal episodes yet. Two coaches who help ot...

In Episode 2 of Let’s Play, Alessandra brings the topic, and it turns out to be a deceptively personal one. She has been looking at her own schedule and she doesn’t love what she sees. The issue has nothing to do with chaos. It has everything to do with what the schedule is communicating, something she hadn’t quite named until now. What follows is a conversation that opens on time management and a...

Derrick Yanford and Alessandra Wall walk into the first episode of Let’s Play with no script, no intro, and no safety net, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. Alessandra opens with a question that sounds deceptively simple: What are you holding onto that has to go? What follows is a raw excavation of two identities most high achievers never name out loud: * The struggling good guy * The convi...