The Write Stuff

🌵 Cactus Friends & Fern Friends 🌿

🌵 Cactus Friends & Fern Friends 🌿

by Caitlin Teed
  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 🪩

by Caitlin Teed
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

by Caitlin Teed

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

by Caitlin Teed
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 🍼

by Caitlin Teed
  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

by Caitlin Teed

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

by Caitlin Teed
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

by Caitlin Teed
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.

by Caitlin Teed
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.

by Caitlin Teed
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

by Caitlin Teed
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.

by Caitlin Teed
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...