Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
"Which of these has more life? Which of these is more a mirror of my self? Does this object make me feel my humanity is expanding—or contracting?"
— Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.
When you’re concentrated on reward and punishment you never get to healing.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
“If you are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”
— Rumi
“Life is ceaseless movement; stability is found in balance, not rigidity.”
— Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity
Creating for the long-term
The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Your employees should describe you as "easy to understand."
— via notes from Anna Wintours biography