🦋 Great to Good blog

Insights on inner transformation and outer contribution from my coaching practice.

The myth of bigger impact illustrated through arrows going up

The myth of bigger impact

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.

Running our lives on renewable energy

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.

Leadership coach -> Purpose coach

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.

We are not here to heal

We sometimes overly center the role of healing in our lives. It’s as if we believe the whole point of our life is to heal our emotional wounds, that healing is the end goal. It’s not.

Pain is a path to purpose

Perhaps the most transcendent and highest form of healing our own emotional wounds is to offer to the world what we needed but didn’t get.