Hey Reader, I've been surprisingly captivated by the World Cup this summer. Maybe it's my Scandinavian roots, but I've found myself rooting for Norway. While I've enjoyed watching the team, I've become fascinated by one particular player: Erling Haaland. It wasn't just his scoring prowess. It was how comfortably he seemed to be himself. During one break in play, he casually wandered over to the opposing goalkeeper's water bottle and grabbed a drink. No hesitation. No looking around to see if...
8 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, Maybe it’s just me, but every once in a while I wish life came with a good old reliable syllabus. Tell me where I need to be and when. Tell me what to learn. Tell me what order to learn it in. Tell me why it matters. For most of my adult life, that’s been my request: “Just give me the syllabus.” Done. I'll do the work. Looking back, that's how I found my way into almost everything that has shaped my career. When I moved to New York to become an actor, I kept following the...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, I’ve had two songs running through my head this week… ear worms if you will. It’s because Ragtime won 3 of the top Tony Awards on Sunday. Best Revival of a Musical Best Leading Actor in a Musical: Joshua Henry for Coalhouse Walker Jr. Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Caissie Levy for Mother There’s a reason they won leading actor and actress. They sing the most powerful numbers in the show. And they nail them. The first was “Back to Before,” sung by Mother (Caissie Levy.) It’s a...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, The last couple of weeks, I've found myself staring at relatively small tasks and feeling completely overwhelmed. Emails. Slack messages. Simple decisions. And I kept asking myself: "What is wrong with me?" The more I paid attention, the more I realized this wasn't laziness. It was overload... cognitive overload. And I don't think I'm alone in that. We're living in a moment where information is being produced faster than human beings can realistically process it. More podcasts....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, For the last several weeks, I’ve written about identity. About why understanding who you are matters more in the age of AI, not less. This week, I want to talk about work. Because I think something bigger is happening underneath all of this technology talk. For a long time, many of us were taught the same basic formula: Get the degree. Get the job. Work hard. Do good work. Stay loyal. You’ll be taken care of. And for a while, that model worked. Or at least it worked well enough...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, For the last few weeks, I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about identity. Not branding. Not image. Identity. And I think part of the reason is because we’re entering a moment where understanding who you are is becoming more important, not less. Especially in the age of AI. Every conversation I have lately with entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals has this quiet question underneath it: “Am I still going to matter?” Not always consciously. But it’s there. You can feel it....
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, I was watching clips from Banana Ball at Yankee Stadium the other day. If you haven’t seen it, it’s… FUN! Baseball, but faster. Looser. Way more entertaining than traditional baseball ever tried to be. They’ve got dancing. Music. Players interacting with the crowd. Broadway performers from current hit shows singing... At Yankee Stadium. During a baseball game. On paper, that shouldn’t work. And yet… it does. It reminded me of something I’ve always been drawn to: Mashups. Back when...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, There’s a moment I keep coming back to this week. Last week an accomplished client said,“I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.” Not dramatically.Not emotionally. Just… matter-of-factly. Like something that used to feel solid suddenly didn’t. And I’ve heard that before. A lot. But what’s more interesting to me at least, is where I turn my focus. We don’t start with strategy. We don’t jump to “what should I do?” We look backward. Where have you already handled something like this...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I've been thinking about identity and how it informs how we show up in the world. I've realized that some of the biggest shifts I’ve seen in people don’t happen because they learned a new strategy. They happen because they changed the story they were telling themselves. Not their branding. Not their LinkedIn bio. Not the polished version of who they think they’re supposed to be. It's the deeper story, the one underneath all of it. The shift from: “Can I do this?” to “This is who I...
3 months ago • 2 min read