ICMM: Living Life Unpaused

I know I'm not happy — I just don't know what I actually want. If you've ever said some version of that, this one's for you. In this solo episode, I get into the quiet trap so many of us live in: waiting to feel certain before we're willing to move. And here's the thing — we've got it backwards. You don't think your way into clarity. You move your way into it. Clarity was never a lightning bolt th...

Chance Lemos drove past the same building on 39th Street every morning for two years. Big building, great neighborhood, a for-sale sign that kept blowing over in the wind. And for two years he told himself he couldn't. Then he turned his brain off and signed the papers. In this episode I sit down with Chance, owner of Blue Collar Barber Co, about making the leap most of us only talk about — what i...

What if the midlife crisis isn't a crisis at all? We've all heard the phrases — the quarter-life crisis, the midlife crisis — and most of us picture the same thing: someone buying a sports car, blowing up their whole life overnight. For years, I rolled my eyes at the idea. My life was "normal"… until it wasn't. In this solo episode, I get honest about the season that forced my own realization — lo...

My very first guest! I sit down with my friend Jim Wiegand, who spent more than twenty years climbing to the top of the finance world — all the way to CFO — and then walked away to open his own Discover Strength studio. We talk about how he knew it was time, how he made the leap with a family and a mortgage on the line, and then he gives a practical, no-excuses guide to why and how you should star...

Episode 2 — You Are Not Your Job We've quietly agreed, as a society, that what you do for money is the same thing as who you are — and this week Abby pushes back on that. Starting from the most ordinary question in the world ("So, what do you do?"), this episode makes the case that you are so much more than your job, and that it's completely okay for a job to be just a job — a means to fund a life...

What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't a lack of clarity, but the belief that you need clarity before you can move? In the first episode of ICMM: Living Life Unpaused , Abby shares the story behind the movement, the podcast, and the simple idea that changed everything. After a year marked by job loss, grief, health challenges, and more than a thousand rejections, she found herself asking a diff...