Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR We don't only teach what we intend to teach. We teach what we model. What we absorb and repeat. What we carry without realizing we're carrying it. What we pass forward before we've had a chance to examine whether...
10 days ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR What happens when you stop switching? Not permanently. Not dramatically. Just for a few days, you put the reactive work aside, the open loops on hold, the roles that pull you in different directions temporarily set...
17 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR Last week I asked you to match seven paradoxes to seven switching taxes. This week - the key. And a story about what happens when the very thing that made you starts sending you the bill. We're also at the halfway...
24 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR What do you do when the Switching Tax you're paying is also the thing that made you? When the switch that cost you is also the switch that got you here? When the quality that holds you back is the same quality that...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR Task Switching, Role Switching, and Context Switching taxes can feel like the same thing. They're not. They each charge a different toll… 💫 on different parts of you 💫 with different antidotes 💫 for different...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR The Value Switching Tax doesn't announce itself. It arrives as generosity. As service. As the reasonable desire to be the kind of coach, artist, or teacher who doesn't make it about money. Then you look up one day...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR The creative breakthrough. The unexpected solution. The idea that arrives fully formed. None of these come from the noisy hours. They arrive during still ones. And the Context Switching Tax - moving between...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR Most of us know how to read a room. 💫 We sharpen the tone when the room needs clarity. 💫 We soften the edge when the room needs warmth. 💫 We swallow the wry comment, the philosophical tangent, the inconvenient...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Quiet Ambition newsletter - a place where we… 💫 stop holding (ourselves) back on ambition and personal growth 💫 define, build and own a meaningful legacy 💫 make the impact we’re meant to make On our terms. Without fuss. And without selling souls. OPEN the STUDIO DOOR Dolly Parton holds more roles than almost anyone alive. Artist. Businesswoman. Philanthropist. Author. Cultural icon. Community anchor. The woman who built a theme park, funds a children's literacy program, has...
2 months ago • 5 min read