Leaders and Their Stories episodes on the inner work: resilience, balance, identity, empathy, and the growth that precedes professional success.
BusinessUK life and AI strategist Lisa Hamilton-Smith on teaching herself AI by writing 50 courses, rebuilding her life to become unstoppable, AI-assisted coaching, writing groups that dogpile AI users, avatars and disclosure, and ADHD as a superpower.
PeopleGar Travis was a Coast Guard veteran, a senior numismatist and one of the best photographers ever to work the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. His website is gone. This tribute keeps a few of his photographs, and one very good joke…
Personal GrowthAt eight I ran away from home, then turned around because I couldn't leave my little sister alone in that house. It was the best decision I ever made. Years later, in a San Jose park, I saw the happy…
Critical ThinkingWhen the cone points at your house, Florida performs the same rituals every storm: the grocery run, the water pallet brawl, the generator still in its box and the flashlights that leaked years ago. Here's the funny version, and how…
Personal GrowthIdentity architect Ozana Giusca on the invisible internal structures that shape what people experience, how she recodes them, ADHD as a label and a limit, and why AI works as a mirror.
Personal GrowthIrish hypnotist Enda Quealy on moving from music retail to hypnosis and self-sabotage work, life as a neurodivergent founder, writing his own copy, and a wide-ranging chat with Richard Lowe about AEO, private equity and World War II.
Personal GrowthOld work makes you cringe because your judgment kept improving after the work stopped. I deleted almost 200 web pages of LinkedIn branding articles, and an early book I ghostwrote makes me wince, and both taught me what to keep…
Personal GrowthI rolled down a Kelso dune at dawn with nobody for miles, and I got lost in Joshua Tree half a mile from the road. Here are both stories and what I'd tell anyone hiking the desert alone.
Personal GrowthWhen caregiving ends, a lot of writers find the words stop with it. Why grief and burnout stall your writing, how long it lasts, and what kept me sane when my wife was sick.
Personal GrowthMost writers don't get much support from family. Why relatives call it a hobby, why their feedback won't help you, and how to keep writing for the people who show up.
Personal GrowthSocial media feeds hold attention the way a hypnotist holds a subject: steady rhythm, no stopping point, and a reward just often enough to keep you under. The people who built them said so, and in 2026 a jury agreed.…
BusinessLeadogo founder Matt Hawksley on leaving a 20-year logistics career, the 40-day road trip that launched his reinvention, learning in the open, and mentoring entrepreneurs in Ghana.
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