Making Room Isn't the Same as Having Room Last week, I left my corporate job. It was a decision I'd been working toward for a while, although perhaps not quite in the way I originally imagined. I liked the work itself. Coaching people through difficult seasons of their lives is something I care deeply about, and I had the opportunity to work with some truly wonderful humans. But the schedule had become increasingly difficult to reconcile with the rest of my life. Evenings and weekends spent...
27 days ago • 5 min read
Sometimes the view gets clearer when you step outside the system for a while. I have spent most of my professional life somewhere in the strange intersection between health, fitness, wellness and business. I have owned a gym. I have coached people privately. I have worked for large fitness and wellness companies. I have hired practitioners and instructors, referred people to other professionals, and spent a frankly ridiculous number of hours thinking about clients when I was technically not...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Today is the last day to get on the VIP list for Power in Practice: Italy 2027. If this trip has caught your attention at all, get on the list today. VIPs get first access to registration, first choice of rooms, and €500 off when registration opens. You are not booking the retreat today. You are making sure you actually get the opportunity to decide before the VIP window disappears. You can look at the details, think about it, talk to your people, stare dramatically out a window imagining...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
We're officially opening the VIP list for the next Power in Practice retreat. May 30–June 5, 2027 South Tyrol, Italy This week is being built around intentional movement, beautiful surroundings, and the kind of space that lets you feel both strong and fully alive. Julz and I are creating the class programming together, blending my strength, mobility, and play-based approach with her background in yoga, Thai massage, acro, breath work, and movement exploration. And we are doing it from a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
A few different people have said some version of the same thing to me lately: I’m tired of being resilient. They are not tired of working hard, nor are they unwilling to deal with difficult things. They are tired of always being the person who can handle it, the one everyone calls when something goes wrong, who covers the shift, takes care of the family, keeps the business running, listens to everyone else’s problems and, somehow, finds another solution. These are often the same people who...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Lately, I have been irritated. Not in any dramatic way, and not really at any one person. More by a pattern I seem to notice every year around this time, when summer starts to loosen its grip on Tahoe and the town begins its annual shift toward winter. The local Facebook groups fill up with new arrivals. People are looking for housing, jobs, community, opportunity. Some of them are also arriving with plans to start businesses, often businesses that already exist here in one form or another....
2 months ago • 6 min read
I just finished a really powerful book. Mary Cain’s memoir, This Is Not About Running, and what stayed with me after finishing was not simply the story of one athlete inside one notoriously dysfunctional system, it was how recognizable the structure of that system felt, even to someone whose own experience was very different. Mary was running for Nike from roughly 2012 to 2017, long enough after I had finished high school and college sports (1995-2006ish), and I was never sexually or...
3 months ago • 9 min read
A client said something recently that I don't think they expected me to notice. Over the course of our conversation they mentioned someone with nice clothes, someone else who made more money than they did, another person whose hair always seemed put together. After hearing them woven throughout the conversation, I reflected something back. "It sounds like appearances matter to you." They paused. Then I added, "It also sounds like financial abundance and stability matters to you." There was a...
3 months ago • 6 min read
We can turn the volume up and down without losing the song. I have been a little quiet lately, partly because I have been working behind the scenes on something I am deeply excited to share, and partly because this summer has been full in the best, messiest, most human ways. We traveled to Colorado and Mt. Hood to take my son to snowboard camp, which meant long drives, changing schedules, work tucked into odd pockets of time, meals wherever we could find them, and plenty of adventure along...
4 months ago • 6 min read