Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. Tall Poppy Syndrome: How to Shine Without Shrinking ↓ Quick Spin: Why we love the “relatable” creator… until we don’t What Tall Poppy Syndrome is (and why it hits women hard) The Bloom → Replant → Grow Roots → Grow cycle How to stop being a moth and become a firefly ♟️ MY TURN: I’ve been fascinated lately with...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Hi friends, This is going to be a #realtalk newsletter slash letter today about something I’ve struggled with this year. For those who don’t know, Dan and I are expecting a baby this August. Funny story about that…. In November we were told by a fertility specialist that we would need to use IVF if we wanted to have a shot at having a baby. But we had made the decision to start the IVF process after the wedding. After that appointment we were a little less *careful* because the odds (and our...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. 4D Thinking: How to Make Big Decisions Without Waiting for “Someday” ↓ Quick Spin: Why “when things slow down” keeps you stuck in life limbo Permission vs. data (and why we secretly want someone to tell us what to do) The 4D Decision Framework: Deadline, Data, Debate, Decide A gentler truth: No decision is...
21 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. Not sure which way to go? Try one of these tools. ↓ Quick Spin: 3 tools I use when making a big decision Details on my recent ketamine journey 7 questions to ask yourself at a fork in the road This newsletter is about personal and professional growth. But how do we pick up speed when we don’t know the...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. The Conspiracy of Goals ↓ Quick Spin: The Conspiracy of Goals Why we feel it How I'm thinking about success differently ♟️ MY TURN: For the first half of my career I was goal oriented. In fact, I would treat my life like a check-the-box activity. Things like: Get married Be on a tv show Run a marathon Make a...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. My Life Edit ↓ Quick Spin: My stressed out cycle The Endowment and Diderot Effects My 6 Part Life Edit ♟️ MY TURN: After big life events I always take a spin cycle. I got married to the most amazing human last weekend. Returning from a busy season (book tour, new CMO role, wedding) I find my brain feeling...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. Getting married this weekend.How I’m doing things differently. ↓ ♟️ MY TURN: After 8 years of separation, divorce and dating as a single mom of 3, I’m getting married again (IN TWO DAYS!!!) So this is going to be a shorter newsletter as I write this with a ton of boxes to be packed into my car and taken over to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. Why Family Can Be the Hardest Relationships to Navigate ↓ Quick Spin: My relationship with my family Why fissures lead to cracks Framework: what cookies do they have ♟️ MY TURN: This is a vulnerable newsletter that I debated talking about but feel it’s a topic that may resonate with some of you. None of my...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Life's a Game, a weekly newsletter to help ambitious people build a more meaningful and integrated life. Was this sent to you? Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. Finding Awe in the Mundane. ↓ Quick Spin: What is awe....exactly? Why is it important My action plan to find awe in my day to day Last week I picked up my friend Jonathan Goodman’s new book Unhinged Habits. He wrote an entire chapter on the “When I Finally” trap and it planted a seed for today's newsletter. The...
2 months ago • 3 min read