When your mind is crap, your body has the wisdom you're looking for.

dive into your body

When I come back from many days of travel and speaking, that day I’m tired. And the next day I’m tired.

But the next day I get low. Mildly depressed. Physically out. Spiritually and mentally depleted.

I have very specific mental health and spiritual practices for that day.

I don’t make any decisions about who I am and where my life is going.

I don’t touch work.

I go on a walk or swim laps.

I hug loved ones and try to see friends.

I eat tasty food - preferably nachos because they are a doorway to Divine love.

The practice summed up is this: I get out of my head and into my body.

When you’re depleted, your mind is a big fat liar about all kinds of things. Especially identity and survival strategy. It’s been calculating non-stop on how to earn love through producing and success… and it just starts sounding like a crazy person with crappy PR strategies. It has lost it’s Knowing through exhaustion. You must connect with another kind of Knowing.

That is found in the wonder of your body.

Your legs and arms know what to do… they carry you to all kinds of wonderful places.

Your heart keeps pumping without your permission… inviting you to the glory of all things.

Your breath whispers the name of the Divine over and over again like a secret charismatic meeting.

Your taste buds know that joy is found in salsa spices and warmed tortilla chips.

There are many different kinds of knowing. Our culture is obsessed with mind knowing.

But your body knows the truth. And today I went on a long walk to get back in touch with the truth:

... that we are unquestionably and unconditionally loved.

May you descend into the wonder of that truth today.

My friend Krysta Masciale is a brilliant mind and a big hearted human who spent the last year putting all her start up wisdom into a new book that just released.

“I wrote this book for founders trying to build the future — and for anyone navigating their own version of the in-between. How do we do that? Really. How do we give our ideas a fighting chance when we’re living in the liminal space, when what got us here won’t get us there, but we don’t know exactly where “there” is?

Father Richard Rohr names this pattern: order, disorder, reorder. The work isn’t to skip the disorder. It’s to learn how to build through it. How we build through the disordered chaos matters as much as what we end up building and we’re not going to get there with yesterday’s tropes. Let’s build a future worthy of our dreams, without losing our minds in the process.”

Here’s a little blurb from the end….. it reminds me of this prayer.

“One of the greatest points of resistance in writing this book was that it felt like none of this really mattered. I chipped away at every chapter while the world continued to burn in spectacular fashion. Is this really it? Is helping founders build healthier organizations while the world at large was a giant dumpster fire useful or is it as foolish as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

I mean, we’re watching systems collapse in real time. We have wars, climate disasters, political upheaval, and civic unrest. And I’m here asking you to care about your meeting cadence and whether your team feels seen.

It felt absurd and borderline offensive.

Why should anyone care about making widgets, or selling software, or building businesses when we watch hourly catastrophes on a live feed? Does it even matter?

The answer is, yes. But damn if it didn’t take some real letting go to arrive at that.

What happens in your business carries out into the community at large.

The same patterns that show up in your organization—clinging to control, resenting the people who challenge you, sabotaging growth because you can’t sit with discomfort, performing instead of leading—these are the same patterns playing out on the global stage.

The difference is scale and stakes.

But the root is the same: leaders who haven’t done their own inner work, manufacture chaos externally because they can’t hold the discomfort internally. You can either function as the immune system of your organization, or you can contribute to its disease.

Right now, we need better immune systems. We need leaders who can hold complexity and be honest about reality. We need organizations that are rehearsal spaces for the world we’re trying to build—not microcosms of the dysfunction we’re trying to escape. We need systems that protect the soul of our organizations and our people.

This is where we begin to reorder our world. It’s more than just your bottom line. We need stronger communities, deeper connection, and people who know how to lead through chaos without creating more of it.

And if you’re a founder trying something new at a time when the old systems are crumbling, we really, really need you to win. We don’t need more unicorn valuations (although kudos if you reached that milestone). We need people to build something that makes people more human.”

Thanks for making it this far. I’m going out of the country with my family for two weeks and I plan to be off social media and even here for that time. But I’ll have a few shorties scheduled.

So much love. We got this. Let’s figure it out together.