Sometimes there’s a reality in the fake that isn’t in the real thing. We always craft our narratives- bringing forward some details, pushing other details back. This way we tell a story that feels real,...

If we all discount our own power, then we forget that if we all act together, things can change. It is now on us to alter ourselves to recognize the interdependent web that we are...

Let’s talk about what it means to be an intensive. And why we need and love intensives. Are you an intensive? Take the SIEF assessment and find out. (Or, if you already know you’re an...

“I’ve been experimenting with the possibility that makeup does not have to be an artifice. That it can be a bold-faced statement. In the same way a shirt is. Nobody believes that the shirt is...

I’m going to go a place that I’ve been avoiding: I’m going to talk SIEF and intensives and expansives and elections and politics.

Marketing authentically and speaking to the importance of personal well-being in our businesses. More on The Lorax and the Once-ler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax

When we pour a little bit of ourselves into the world, and then we pump, we get water. But a dry pump yields nothing. Mike Sowden’s “Everything is Beautiful” Substack can be found here: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/

What if everybody had “I will not take it out on others” on their top priority list?

Quiet Quitting isn’t really quitting at all. And if employers treated employees with dignity, we wouldn’t be talking about it. An article from In These Times on the Fed, interest rates, and how the Fed’s...

We are made to be interconnected. We are made to rely on each other, which means we need other people around us. We fall down when we become too reliant on our individualism because being...