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This is the companion post to Episode 3 of the podcast. If you haven't listened yet, head there first — then come back here for everything I was still thinking about after we stopped recording and in my listen back. The phrase Do it Scared gets thrown around in self-help circles, it even looks good on a mug. Doing it scared in this context means feeling the fear, and pushing through, happily ever after. But that’s not quite what I mean. I mean something closer to what I texte

This is the companion post to Episode 2 of the podcast. If you haven't listened yet, head there first — then come back here for everything I was still thinking about after we stopped recording and in my listen back. In the pod, I say, “In hindsight, I’d do things completely differently.” Let’s talk about it. I am not the same person who stepped onto the JMT nine years ago. I know that sounds like something everyone says but I mean it in a specific, bodily way. Since the JMT,

This is the companion post to Episode 1 of the podcast. If you haven't listened yet, head there first — then come back here for everything I was still thinking about after we stopped recording and in my listen back. I am inherently a private person with most people. But like many of us, I have a vast inner world. The difference is that, for me, that inner world doesn’t always make it outside—sometimes because I don’t want to share, sometimes because I don’t feel like I can, a