Fine Is a Trap

Fine Is a Trap

There’s a version of survival that looks remarkably like success. You’re functioning. You’re delivering. People come to you with problems and you solve them. You show up and you do the thing — whatever the thing is — and you do it well. And if...
Forced to Let Go

Forced to Let Go

Nobody plans the moment that changes them. Not in business. Not in leadership. Not in any of the places where we’ve convinced ourselves that if we just prepare enough, learn enough, control enough — we’ll be ready when it counts. Chris Shurian didn’t...
Radiance Over Résumé

Radiance Over Résumé

Alyssa Liu didn’t come back to figure skating because she had unfinished business. She came back because she missed it. That’s the part that gets glossed over in the highlight reels. Everyone wants to talk about the gold medal, the comeback narrative, the...
The Return: What Untamed Leading is Really About

The Return: What Untamed Leading is Really About

There’s a phrase I keep coming back to. Presence begins where primal and purpose meet. It took me years to land on that sentence. It couldn’t be rushed. It had to be lived—through every coaching session, every stage, every moment I watched someone step...