A few years back, I attended an art therapy workshop (with this cool art therapist in Los Angeles). And something she said stuck with me: “Everyone has an art scar.” An art scar, she’d explained, was a moment in your past when someone told you that you weren’t good at art, made fun of you for trying […]
My best business investments have been with people who model for me how to be a steady, centered, self-led entrepreneur. As I keep learning, over and over again, if I want a calm, secure business … I first need to cultivate calm security within myself. And the same goes, it turns out, for leading your dog. […]
When I was 15, I would write in the margins of my school notebooks — in tiny writing, where no one could really see it, but it was there if you looked, lining the pages of my homework. Cramped and compelled: It’s only when I feel alone that I turn to realize that I am. […]
How do you talk about the problems you solve without making your audience feel bad? This is the million dollar question as our culture becomes more aware of how our marketing and messaging affect individual readers, and as we begin to take more ownership over how we want to want to make people feel along the […]
