Antihero Project

Purpose is like a garden. When we are feeling a lack of purpose, we don’t go out in the woods digging for it. We simply plant some seeds, pull some weeds, water (but not too much), and give it time.

Let’s stop subjecting ourselves to this pointless, unwinnable battle against enough. Instead, let’s consider what we might do with our lives if we didn’t actually have anything to prove in the first place.

I was in my late 20s, traveling in Peru for a work conference. Once the conference ended, I took a solo excursion from Lima to the Sacred Valley near the ancient Incan cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu

When we chase bigger impact, we often end up applying and reinforcing the current system’s broken logic to social change. We end up recreating the same toxicity that got us here in the first place.

One of the big lies among people who want to have a positive impact in the world is that to do good, we kind of have to feel bad. We have to burn ourselves out. We have to do work that we don’t really like or want. And if we’re not kind of at the edge of our sanity at all times, we’re not sacrificing enough. We’re not dedicated enough. First off, I just want to say clearly that that is utter garbage. It’s such an unhelpful, toxic belief to carry about ourselves and the world. But more than that, I […]

One of the most persistent myths in the world of social change is that: to do good, you must feel bad. This is not only false—it’s toxic.

Not only is it possible to run our life’s work on clean, renewable, internal energy, it is perhaps the most important thing we can do to make a meaningful, nourishing, and truly sustainable contribution over the long haul.

There is no resistance or suffering that hasn’t eventually passed when I simply keep breathing into it for long enough.

For the first time ever, one of my “Imagine” entries has actually come to pass!

Lately, “leadership coach” just doesn’t really convey what I do or reflect what I care most about. My hope is that “purpose coach” both differentiates me further from the crowd and is a clearer distillation of what I actually do.