Hi Reader, Most people use AI to write faster, I ended up using it to slow down 😅 Recently, many emails sound similar — same structure, same words. I find myself skimming through sentences, filling in the gaps. Basically not reading properly. Luckily, for my book-writing process, I had started to work with AI in a peculiar way: asking it for its tough love when reviewing my content — instead of writing it for me. Applying this collaboration to emails, I learned that I was misreading them,...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, How much money and time do you waste on self-development that you never integrate? It's been a week since I returned from an intensive retreat - four days without phone or access to the external world. I joined with the intention to look inside for insights on how I can better align my intentions and vision to my daily reality. For the first time, I am investing time and money in the integration: I purchased a six-weeks online course and am spending an hour per day on just that....
20 days ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader, How can we turn our worst critic into our very best friend? I might have found a way! Last week, I hosted the first gathering of the workshops work Podcast Club. We had a full house, with the two featured guests from the episodes as well as other podcast guests and 'big names'. Some joined at 4 am. I was properly nervous! The conversations were splendid. People were present. Nearly everyone had actually listened to the episodes. They came ready to share, to learn from and with...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, When you step into a new shop, how do they win your trust? Last week I had an unprofessional experience in a bookstore that turned me into their biggest fan! A political statement in a bookstore window stopped me cold last week. Bold enough to cost them customers. I walked in. Inside, every book I pulled out was either already on my shelf or went straight to my wish list. The owner had curated a store that felt like it was built for me specifically. I did something I almost never...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, How are you doing on your new year's intentions? We're three weeks into the year and I am looking at my 10 commandments - my operating system for the year - and can't help noticing a pattern that keeps showing up at the intersection of three of them: I choose ease. I am obsessed with clarity. I put my shoes on (I don't wait for permission). I keep catching myself mid-sentence, correcting from "Shall we [...]?" to "Let's [...]." At first I was too slow. I'd hit send on "Shall we?"...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader, What makes it difficult to call a mistake what it is? This week, I posted a list of some of my biggest business and podcast mistakes on LinkedIn and it went mini-viral with 300+ reactions. The post ended with: 'Some mistakes led to surprising outcomes. All led to a waste of time and money.' The comments were thoughtful - and revealed something. What caught my curiosity was the pushback on 'waste.' Many offered gentler words: investment, learning, growth. I chose 'waste'...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader, Do you have a new year's ritual? A word or a commitment for the months to come? Since 2016, I write my 10 commandments and choose a word every January. A few years ago I shared my commandments in this newsletter. One reader (and good friend in the meantime) started writing hers too. Now she sends them to me every year. It reminded me that sharing our commandments turns them into commitments. It makes it real. What makes it even more real is looking back at the changes and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Happy New Year, Reader! I wish you a healthy body and a content soul. I wish you inspiration, and the courage to act on it. And I wish you meaningful connections, conversations, and collaboration for 2026. As the year is about to begin, I find myself asking a familiar question: what do I want to start, stop, or continue? We tend to focus on beginnings. New habits, new goals, new energy. It's exciting. Yet, we've all learned that what we forget to stop often comes at the highest cost because...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader, What tells you that you’ve done a good job? Pause for a second before you answer. Is it a number, a feeling, a comment from someone else, or the simple relief of being done? Most of us have a metric, even if we’ve never named it. And once it’s there, it starts steering far more than we realise. I noticed this recently, in the most unlikely of places: on my meditation cushion. Before my last Vipassana retreat, a “good” meditation was easy to define. It was a sit where my mind...
2 months ago • 3 min read