I wrote my husband a note this week while I was in the middle of a client call. It was supposed to say “Bike sold, pick up seven to eight tonight.” What actually came out was “Pick sale 7-8 pm tonight.” I tossed it on the hardwood floor so it would slide into the hallway
How to Embrace Your Inner Polymath
So meone judges the variety of what you do. Here is the move. You smile and say, “Did you know there is a name for that? It is polymath.” That is the whole shift. Not a defense, not a justification. A word that turns the thing you have apologized for into the thing you claim.
What Is a Multipotentialite? (This Might Be You)
“But doesn’t that make me scattered?” I hear it almost every week, usually from someone running something impressive. Their family wants them to settle down and focus on one thing. They have started to believe the word. Here is the distinction that changes the conversation. A dabbler touches something for a week and moves on.
Polymath Leaders: Why Your Many Interests Make You Better at the Top.
Someone asks what you do. And you freeze. This happens to me all the time. I know what my head wants to say, and I know they are not ready for the answer. Because the honest answer is not a job. It is a list. Thirty-five browser tabs open, from five different worlds. Five projects half-built. A
Write Your Myth or Inherit Someone Else’s – You’re Unconventional and You Might As Well Embrace It
Write your own story, or you will be handed someone else’s. We came into this world as storytellers. Science backs it now. Your brain fills every gap with a story, and if you do not write the one you lead by, you inherit the default. Usually the one that says there is a right way
You’re Living a Myth Whether You Know It or Not
You are living a myth right now, whether you know it or not. Your brain is a storytelling machine. It runs a story about who you are and what winning looks like, the same way your lungs run on air. You do not get to opt out. You only get to choose whether you wrote
The Myth of Right-Way Leadership
This is the Myth of Right-Way Leadership, a modern myth I wrote on the bones of the Sisyphus story. It is for the leader who does everything the proven way, carries it alone, and still feels the rock roll back over them every morning. Listen to the whole thing, then look closely at the initials
Pathways to Bliss: Lessons from Joseph Campbell for Unconventional Leaders
Written by JoyGenea with supporting help from Claude Code AI Myths are old. Older than religion. Older than psychology. They are the first thing humans built to explain ourselves to each other, and that is not an accident. We run on story. The brain is built for it. You can’t talk yourself out of that any more than you can talk yourself out
Stop Letting Your Output Decide Your Worth
Your worth is trading like a stock right now, and you are the only shareholder. Good quarter, you feel worthy. Dropped ball, you feel like a fraud. Your sense of your own value rides up and down on your latest result, and it is exhausting. Here is the problem with that. A number
Your Confidence Didn’t Leave. It Went Quiet.
Ask a founder when their confidence dropped and most cannot tell you. Not the date, not the comment, not the meeting. Something was said, or something happened, and the self-worth just quietly washed away. No announcement. No obvious wound. That is how it goes with the people I coach. It is almost never