Most of us aren't stuck because we lack information. We know our situation. We've thought about it — in the van, in the shower, lying awake at some point. We could explain the problem clearly. We just haven't done much about it. That's a specific type of stuck, and in my experience, thinking harder doesn't shift it. The walk A few years ago I walked the Camino de Santiago. Six hundred miles across Spain, on my own, over about six weeks. I was 29. I'd just come off a business

They're not chasing money. They're chasing beauty. And they've been taught to look for it everywhere except the one place it actually lives. I watched the documentary. And the longer I sat with it, the more I noticed what it wasn't really about. Not at its root anyway. It wasn't about money, or power, or social media, or even misogyny, though all of those things were obviously present. It was about a group of young men who had severed themselves from something tender inside t

Most people think failure is the moment something goes wrong. A business collapses. A relationship ends. A plan falls apart. But often failure isn’t the real problem. The real disruption happens when certainty disappears . I experienced this in my twenties after starting a vegan food trailer business. At the time it felt like a completely new direction for my life. I had been working as an electrician since I was nineteen, and somewhere along the way I developed the idea that

This week feels like the beginning of something new. Not because something dramatic has happened, but because I’ve made a decision to start sharing more openly about the work I’m doing and the ideas that have been shaping my life over the past few years. For most of my adult life I’ve worked as an electrician. It’s a trade I’m grateful for. It taught me responsibility early on, gave me independence, and showed me that competence grows through experience. But alongside that jo