Good work advice

Send the client a pre-call questionnaire (Google Docs) or a short set of questions 👍If they don't respond, nudge at least once(!) and step away. Addressing these questions UPFRONT and early helps you make sure there is 100% transparency and mutual alignment between BOTH of you.Something along the lines of:“Hello! Before we schedule in a call, could... See more

Work is not something to be balanced against everything else. It’s one of the many buckets in our life, sometimes the most important one if you’re hardwired that way, and something we should figure out how best to integrate with the other areas in a healthy, supportive way.

But who are we — am I — trying to be original for? Myself, a client, a boss, a professor, Instagram, my mom, nobody at all? I think that it’s time to really think about who we’re creating for, so that we can strategize who deserves our originality, who deserves our efficiency, who deserves both, and who deserves neither. If there’s one thing I’m... See more

Because businesses, especially creative ones, wither under conditions of self-erasure. Creativity cannot thrive in a starved vessel. Liberation cannot emerge from a punished body. When we design, lead, or create from a place of deprivation or performance, the work becomes brittle. When we create from nourishment, presence, and embodiment, the work... See more