After sharing my thoughts about career twice a week for 8.5 years (!), I felt my attention shifting a few months ago and knew I needed to be quiet to listen to what was emerging.

I started feeling the pull of spontaneity, variety, and creativity, along with the pull to scale back my business and ramp up the work I do in my local community to fight for racial justice and our democracy.

During those few months of quiet and community focus, I found a tiny new bud of an idea that grabbed all of my soul. And so, I'm giving myself grace to evolve into my next era.

Today, I hang up my career coaching hat as my main thing.

It's been an incredible honor to work with so many courageous folks and discover what it looks like to truly do what's right for you in your career. (And let's be honest, I'll never stop talking about doing what's right for you).

But now it's time to evolve into that tiny idea...

I'm creating the Secret Society of Unreasonable Kindness.

YOU HEARD ME. It's kindness time.

And here's why.

Cruelty blows and the level of cruelty blatantly on display in the US right now is making me pissed more than ever.

Cruelty against immigrants.
Cruelty against trans people.
Cruelty against poor people.
Cruelty against Black and brown people.

What a f*cking tired game that's played out over and over again by people who are set on dominating others.

It's time for a new game where we infuse strategic amounts of what I'm calling "unreasonable kindness" into this world. It's not random acts of kindness and it's not a cutesy naive 'can't we all just get along?'.

Unreasonable kindness is subversive. It interrupts the fear, disconnection, and loneliness that convinces us we're separate and out to get each other.

It restores faith in humanity.
It breaks the false narrative that no one cares and we're out here doing life alone.
It interrupts default cruelty.

And the thing I love most about unreasonable kindness is it's one of two things that reliably exit people out of white power groups. Kindness is powerful enough to disrupt the drug of white supremacy.

So that's... ya know... a 180 from career coaching :D

But that's who I want to be in the world at this phase. And honing your craft of creating unique ways to delight other humans in the face of cruelty is the evolution of what it looks like to have a life of options. To feel resilient and powerful in this moment rather than overwhelmed and frozen.

I'll be bringing together:

(1) Joyful people
(2) Ready to move from passively observing cruelty to actively creating kindness
(3) So that we can hone our craft and design unique moments of unreasonable kindness and delight that reconnect humanity

If that's you and you might be interested in being a founding member... send me a sign via invisible ink or pigeon (or DM)... I'll be on the lookout.

To the next chapter...