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Do you ever have this pervasive thought: “I should be…” fill in the blank with somewhere other than where you currently are? I know I do. When I was younger, I would push myself super hard to satisfy this standard, to get to where “I should be”. It could be meeting a deadline, milestone, or physically getting invited to some event or group. Sometimes I ‘succeeded’; most of the time, I didn’t. But even ‘success’ felt hollow. When I got where I thought I wanted to be, I slowly realized in the pit of my stomach that it wasn’t a welcoming place for me. AND I was exhausted. Using all of that energy to push myself to be somewhere I wasn’t weakened me to the point I could not stand. Over time, it was clear that I wasn’t actually ‘supposed’ to be there, in spite of my thoughts that I “should”. Now, I’m learning to remind myself: my only job is to accept the truth of where I currently am. When I forget that, I encounter many forms of fear that feel stifling. When I remember and practice that, I immediately experience a sense of freedom and expansion. As purpose-driven leaders, we want to be responsible, make the most of the gifts we’ve been entrusted with. The challenge is: not falling back into the exhausting performance spiral of constantly trying to be somewhere we’re not. The tug is so strong all around us. It’s hard to resist. This is not a knock on goal-setting but a practical choice to appreciate in each and every moment where we already are, and not needing that to be different. Then the growth can slowly become an experience to enjoy, as opposed to a pressure to endure. This goes counter to what we were taught to value, and that, my friend, is the whole point. In this period of global transition, we can sense that the old way of succeeding will NOT get us through to what’s coming. This way, the way of accepting that where I think I should be is not where I currently am, and that’s ok, is a way that I keep returning to.

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I used to think a good leader is warm and accessible all the time. That is exactly why my team stopped listening. For years I had one mode. Friendly, expressive, lots of words. Same energy in a serious meeting as in a tea break. I thought that was authenticity. It was just noise. When I was warm in a serious meeting, the team felt the decision was not important. When I over explained a hard call, they thought I was unsure. When I rambled in a 1:1, the actual point got lost. The biggest shift came when I started saying less. The day I cut my words in half, people started leaning in. Decisions stopped getting questioned. The room got quiet when I spoke. Turns out the more I talked, the less they listened. I had trained them that my words were not worth tracking. Now I run three modes depending on the room. Dropping the full framework in the comments. Including the one question I ask myself every night to stay honest. Anyone else here had to unlearn “be yourself everywhere” as a leader?

Recently, I was reminded of the challenge of operating inside the overlap of two very different stories. It was in a lively discussion with other women learning AI, when one person noted the contrast between the “genuine interest and care” she found in our group and the “create an avatar to connect with people” advice she found elsewhere. In that moment, a light bulb went off in my head (complete with a ding) and I had a flash before my eyes of a resource - a rudimentary map. What she shared is very real: the dissonance between being forced to pay bills in an extractive economy, and wanting to enjoy genuine, deep connections with other humans in a way that feels nourishing. This is the dance of the two stories we’re living in now; one is declining and one is emerging. For a while now, I’ve been sitting in a question: How do we accept what is real right now while creating what we want for the future? In conversations, I often notice the disconnect between stated intentions (regenerative, conscious, heart-centered, life-affirming) and chosen language and strategies (pay to play, capture, crush, dominate, eliminate). In the transition, it gets challenging to stay aware and tuned in, both to our individual and collective experiences, while still being forced to operate in ways that go against how life actually works. It’s easier to numb, to not give it thought. This is true for everyone; none of us would function if we fully sat with the weight of the human experience torn between two different realities right now. And yet, what if each of us as individuals sat with one question: What is *mine* to do right now?