The Write Stuff

🌵 Cactus Friends & Fern Friends 🌿

🌵 Cactus Friends & Fern Friends 🌿

  Recently, a dear friend explained a new analogy for me — the concept of fern friends and cactus friends. I've found it incredible helpful in more...
How teaching spin changed my life 🪩

How teaching spin changed my life 🪩

Many years ago, before the global pandemic, I wrote this post about how training to be a spin instructor changed me, and included it in my 100 day...
That was a choice: making difficult decisions

That was a choice: making difficult decisions

We are faced with decisions and choices every damn day. And as someone who doesn't even have a consistent coffee order, why is it so hard some times to make a decision? Or pick between a limited number of choices?

How do you weigh your options from something as simple as `what colour do you want your manicure today?` all the way to `do you want to have kids?'

Why I am quitting Facebook

Why I am quitting Facebook

I grew up on Facebook. In high school, I remember creating my first profile, making sure it was similar but different to my MySpace page — I appre...
Why I am staying kid-free 🍼

Why I am staying kid-free 🍼

  A part of me wanted to just write... Because it's my body and my choice and it's not open for negotiation. And if I change my mind, that's also ...
The 5 things I learned in my first 5 days at Govalo

The 5 things I learned in my first 5 days at Govalo

On Monday, I started Day 1 at Govalo, where we're reinventing the digital gifting experience. I took time today to reflect — and in doing so, I discovered 5 themes that emerged over the last 5 days for me: 

  1. Use your gifts

  2. Do things that don't scale

  3. Trust is everything

  4. It doesn't have to be perfect

  5. Ask for help

I left Shopify ✌🏼 here's why and what's next

I left Shopify ✌🏼 here's why and what's next

It takes a lot to unpack 7 years, and move on to the next thing.
This meeting could have been an email: and other workplace pains

This meeting could have been an email: and other workplace pains

Let's outline some of the most annoying work habits and bad practices we see all the time at any office: Spelling your name wrong in an email. Re...
Fitness is a mindset, not a body type.

Fitness is a mindset, not a body type.

A healthy lifestyle isn't a number on a scale. And being fit isn't a waist size. Not that long ago, I wrote about finding your sweat life — and tha...
Easier said than done.

Easier said than done.

Does anyone else have issues following their own advice? I feel I give really good advice but take issue following it myself. My mom and I have al...
Everything I've learned on my #100DayProject

Everything I've learned on my #100DayProject

DON'T GIVE UP. EVER. You will fail. You will forget. You will lose focus. But the one thing you can never do is give up. Acknowledge the challenge ...
A thank you note.

A thank you note.

Almost a year ago today, I emailed a thank you note to someone: It's rare that you can connect on that level with someone through any kind of spon...