Today, this book is out of my hands. People are reading it and listening to it and making it their own, and I can’t change a thing.

No matter the distance, the last couple miles always feel the hardest.

My new book will be released in two weeks. Over the weekend, I felt an intense wave of a feeling that I’d been expecting: fear.

Before I even started writing my book, I knew I wanted to write it in places that inspired me.

Instead, I feel grateful that I'm able to do the work that I’m doing, even when I haven’t had a break from it in awhile.

When you think about someone writing a book, you might picture a person sitting alone, typing away at a computer. Before I wrote one myself, that’s what I always thought it would be like.

When writing a book, every author remembers their rock-bottom moment. They also remember what lifted them up and got them to the other side of it.

Today is all about how I learned to protect my authenticity and trust my own process—and the story starts in my own neighborhood.

To kick off this series, I want to take you back to the night that changed everything for me when it came to writing this book.

Near the end of this post, I have a really special announcement that has been the hardest secret to keep from you, and today is the day I get to share it.

The movie theater was the last place on Earth I expected to get some kind of clarity on my relationship with AI, but that’s what happened.

I want to share what I learned about navigating an intense creative season this way and how I made intentional tradeoffs to protect that time for myself without guilt.

I’ve learned that the key to dealing with uncertainty is to turn my focus inward. After all, the only thing we can really control is ourselves, so that’s always where I start.

I thought I’d share with you what I told my friend in case you, too, are struggling with rejection or have struggled with it before.

The people who have the courage to keep trying after they mess up are usually the most successful in the end. But, of course, that’s easier said than done.

I wasn’t looking forward to it, but I knew the situation was out of my control.

Comments like these usually fly under the radar because we say them so casually, we’re not fully conscious of our words when we say them.

In the moment, I found myself unable to accept a single one of their sweet words.