The year I said "no" to everything
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On making room for what matters, and the slow work of becoming yourself
When you run a company, your days have a shape. Sales numbers. Open rates. Conversion. There’s always a KPI telling you whether you’re winning or losing, moving forward or falling behind. The feedback loop is constant and clarifying in a way that regular life simply is not. You always know where you stand. And then one day you don’t run a company anymore, and the metrics disappear, and you’re left standing in your kitchen at 10am on a Tuesday wondering what a good day even looks like now. That was me, not long after I sold rmdy, the wellness brand I’d spent years building while…
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