Adventures on the Blog
Stories, (Un)Marketing experiments, inspiring conversations and spiritual business
How the RecordFlow Zoom Tool Sparked a Bigger Insight About Life
A couple weeks ago, my colleague on the Radiant IRIS team said: "I'm still looking for a way to get our meeting recordings from the Zoom cloud over to Google Drive," with a big sigh. Technically, this registers as a complaint, but I heard a challenge. Somewhere in the...
A Strange and Beautiful Moment in Porto with the Chicken Artist
I’m in Porto in the north of Portugal for my immigration appointment. I love Porto, known for its port wine and Baroque architecture. The narrow cobblestone streets, steep hills, old tiled buildings, wandering tourists, musicians tucked into alleyways. It’s also the...
Bryan Cranston, David Lynch, and the Reality of Creative Success
Right now I’m sitting in an Airbnb in Porto with the windows open, listening to the shrieks of excited teens in the streets below while the sun sets over the city. And I am pissed. We got up at 5am for our flight to Porto this morning. Traipsed around the charming...
FreshSeeing: An AI Conversation Tool That Reflects Your True Self
One of the beautiful humans who joined us for the Get It Done workshop last week was Kristian Larsen, creator of FreshSeeing. I’m really glad he did. What Kristian is building feels delightfully different from most technology I encounter online these days. It’s not...
What Steph DragonHeart Is Really About
Lately I’ve been working on some static grid content for Instagram and LinkedIn, trying to articulate what’s been emerging in me. So I found myself asking: What is Steph DragonHeart really about? This is what I’ve been playing with. You are an unstoppable force of...
The Fishing Net Metaphor For Thoughts and Feelings, with Fenella Blakaj
I took part in a beautiful conversation with Fenella Blakaj, who runs a school in Switzerland for “challenging” children, many of whom have neurodivergent tendencies. She shared the metaphor she uses to help children understand where their experience comes from. It...
Why Fear of Selling Creates Confusing Marketing For Coaches
One of my clients has a list of “Forbidden C-words.” Coaching. Client. Cost. They just won’t say them. We joked about it, but it’s true. They’re afraid to ask for the sale or even use words that imply they might want someone to hire them. Can you guess whether this...
Moving to Portugal and Embracing Uncertainty
A funny thing happened while I was recording a podcast interview with Amy Stone for The Art of Imperfect Adulting. I was telling her the story of how I ended up moving to Portugal, and at one point she said: “So you moved to Portugal for a man.” I immediately had this...
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