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This is the same instinct that hollows people out across decades of careers they were never present for. Marriages entered before the last one finished leaving. Roles taken on while still grieving the one they replaced. New cities, new bodies, new id

I watched this shift happen recently in an executive I work with. For years they'd been the sentinel, holding the system together for a boss who was wildly unpredictable. Buffering the chaos so the team didn't take the hit. Explaining, apologizing, c

The most exhausted leaders aren't tired from the work.

They're tired from the invisible effort of diluting their own authority so it arrives palatable.

That's contamination, and almost no one names it.

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The book I'm writ

Most people performing power don't know that's what they're doing.

It feels like competence. Like professionalism. Like being the kind of person who knows how to read a room and keeps things moving.

It costs your energy, your relationships, your de

People confuse “nice” with moral goodness all the time - especially in leadership, friendships, and high-functioning circles.

But nice isn’t a virtue. It’s often a strategy.

Nice smooths, cushions, manages perception, an

I know my content isn’t easy to engage with publicly.

It doesn’t optimize for mass agreement or casual scrolling. It names power. It names avoidance. It names the places we quietly opt out of sovereignty.

That doesn’t always t

Canada often tells itself we’re different - and in many ways we are - but we are not immune to tragedy.

Today my heart is with the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. I’m thinking of the students, families, teachers, and first

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