You’d Like Her

What if you could try the life you’ve always wanted… for free ? I cold called my way into building a yoga retreat's marketing strategy and it's the reason why I got to live at their residence for free. This is about the permission I didn't know I was waiting for: to test out a completely different version of my career on a different definition of a normal day. In this episode: 🧪 how w...

Dinara was in the middle of a work crisis when I spotted her Yosemite water bottle sticker at a café in Kazakhstan and asked if she wanted to hang out. She said yes. What I didn't know then was that she was dismantling everything she'd built her sense of worth on — her job, her body, her identity — and figuring out who she was without any of it. As part of that process Dinara started a fil...

My girlfriends and I have been joking about buying a compound together for years. Except it’s never really just a joke. What if housing wasn't just a box to check on the adulting list, but instead a life design choice? What if instead of filtering for commute time and square footage, you optimized for proximity to the people you love? Because it turns out, living near your friends might do more fo...

Lexi cancelled her wedding, bought an empty van, and spent nine months building it from scratch with no construction background, no blueprint, and absolutely no guarantee it would work. Then she and her husband drove it across America for six months and came home exactly the same people they left as. We took the same path for years. Same university, same business school, same consulting job and ev...

I spent an entire summer convinced I was about to suddenly die of a rare heart disease. Even though the diagnosis was wrong, the fear had already moved in. Fear isn't the hard part. It's what happens after, when you know you should move forward and you can't — that's the part nobody talks about. At some point, the "just do it" mentality to push through fear stops working....

Satori was thirteen when the 2011 tsunami destroyed her hometown in Sendai, Japan. She went to volunteer in the aftermath. It left her with something most people spend their whole lives trying to find: a bone-deep sense that life is short, failure doesn't mean much, and ordinary is amazing. I met Satori on a tour in Kazakhstan and we kept crossing paths after that across Central Asia, before I...

For most of my career I followed other people's scripts without realizing that's what I was doing. Consulting in New York because it was the prestigious path. A croissanterie in Sydney because baking was my hobby. Teaching yoga because instructors’ lives looked so free. I kept seeing what other people had and thinking: that equation works for them, so it must work for me too. It didn't...

Jaime has quit a lot of things. A commerce degree she hated, a corporate job, an interior design career, a yoga teaching business. Not because she's flaky — because she kept making perfectly logical guesses with her head and landing somewhere that almost worked. I met Jaime while hiking in the Alps back in 2022 when she told me the craziest story about losing her engagement ring. She loves gro...

If you've ever done the math on your life — working backwards from the age you were supposed to have it together, and then spent years making decisions from the fear of falling behind it — this one's for you. I turned 33 this week, and it definitely does not look like what I had planned out when I was 22. For most of my twenties, every birthday was a quiet report card against a timeline I’...

Anna booked a last-minute cruise to Antarctica from a random WhatsApp number on a Sunday night. No plan, no backup — just a hostel in Ushuaia and the beginning of a year-long career break that would change what she believed she was worth. We ended up as bunkmates at the bottom of the world — two women who each thought the other had it completely together. I saw her as confident and self-possessed....

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