When Doing Nothing Is Everything You Need
We live in a world that glorifies productivity - squeezing every hour for output, efficiency, and “value creation.” But not every day needs to be optimized for work. Sometimes, the best thing you can do for yourself is to hit pause.
The Boss Without Substance
Every workplace has one. The boss who walks into a meeting with great posture, polished words, and the uncanny ability to say absolutely nothing… with style.
Treat Your Energy Like Capital
Energy is the most valuable currency we have. We often treat time as finite, but time without energy is useless.
How to Survive an Uninspiring Boss, and Still Grow Your Career
It’s not always the shouty, impossible bosses who wear you down. Usually it’s the seemingly polite and polished kind, the ones who take up space in the corner office but leave none for vision, encouragement, or genuine connection.
When You Lose Your Job in Your 20s or 30s: How to Cope and Move Forward
If you’ve experienced a layoff, it can hit like a tidal wave, not just financially, but emotionally. There is the loss of structure, the uncertainty about the future, and the ache of not being needed in the place where you once poured so much of yourself.
The Happiness Atelier
We’ve all been there, telling ourselves, I’ll be happy when…
When work slows down.
When I find the right partner.
When I finally move into a bigger place.
When I hit that next career milestone.
You Are Not Alone
I’ve heard Coldplay’s Paradise countless times when it first came out. Back then, it was just a nice song with a catchy melody. But now, with more life behind me, it landed in a different way as I was listening to it the other day.
Be the Curator of Your Own Growth
There is a script we are given early in our careers: work hard, deliver on expectations, wait for recognition, and someday the right opportunities will open. But if the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that certainty is an illusion.
Making Space for Deeper Connection
Last night, I sat at a dinner table with eight brilliant women from various fields. Each one accomplished, articulate, and deeply immersed in her own lane.
Why Ambition Feels Different in Your 30s
In your 20s, ambition felt pretty straightforward. Work hard, move up, check the next box. There was always another rung to reach for, and that felt like progress.
It Was 4:55am and I Was Spiraling
It was 4:55am in Montreal, and I was panicking.
We had just arrived at the airport, minutes past the airline’s 75-minute check-in cutoff. Our flight to LaGuardia was scheduled for 6am.
It’s Okay to Want More
When you no longer feel passionate about what you do, it’s time for change. The sense of disconnection or boredom, the loss of energy, of motivation, of purpose…
Not Bad, Not Great
How often have you experienced days that aren’t terrible, but also not joyful? They are just… bland.
Key Lessons Learned from Venture Investing
Behind the pitch decks and management meetings, venture investing is a deeply human business.
Living with Passion and Intention: The Quiet Search for What Matters
Some people live like fire - burning bright, bold, uncontainable. Others live like rivers - steady, deep, quietly shaping the world around them.
In Pursuit of Stillness
The world rarely pauses. Mornings blur into meetings. Evenings dissolve into screens. Our minds rehearse conversations we haven’t had, rewrite moments already passed.
New Chapter
It’s been a while since I last published any interviews. Time has a way of slipping past us - quietly, then all at once.