W e talk a lot about the future of work and a lot less about the tension shaping coaching right now. But the data makes it hard to ignore. You see in my work with one of the major coaching platforms I've been looking at the data and find that a pattern keeps repeating: Organizations choose goals that protect the system Individuals choose goals that protect their careers Same environment yet very different problems to solve. Organizations consistently prioritize things like: leading change...

I’ve been noticing something I use all the time, and I think we all do. An idea that is technically wrong…but psychologically helpful. And that turns out to matter more than we like to admit. Take the classic juice detox . I don’t believe juicing “detoxes” anything. Your liver and kidneys already do that job brilliantly. But as a construct ? “Three days of juice” becomes a reset ritual a way retire old patterns in place of new. Not because the detox story is accurate, rather because it’s...

A few years ago, I built a playlist for my sister called The Soundtrack of Your Life . It wasn’t a neat Spotify list of greatest hits. It was more like a small museum: obscure recordings, half-forgotten songs, old jingles, TV theme tunes, sonic fragments from childhood. The kind of things you don’t find easily. That’s how I ended up emailing strangers on the internet. Collectors. Archivists. People who hoarded tiny pieces of audio history on dusty hard drives. I wrote polite messages,...