• Make do, as professionals do

    We’ve all made room for more forms of inspiration by giving ourselves permission to create and connect differently in the past year. Here’s to accepting our muse when and where we can find it, similarly using the best-available tools.

  • Freedom, vulnerability and human connection: advice to my kids for what comes next

    Dear Hendrix and Rose: The stories we tell ourselves are even more powerful than the ones we tell others. Done right, they center our place in the world. Who are we? Sometimes, we can overdo them. That’s usually when we think we’re the center of the universe. Why are we? Stories give us the certainty to push on. When…

  • Release us from platforms and enclaves with new sacred stories

    In this transformative time, we question once-unassailable pillars — democracy, capitalism, freedom of expression, equality — and the sacred stories that have supported them. They founder in the face of new realities: technological upheaval, information overload, and massive inequities. We need to openheartedly reshape and reimagine those institutions and stories. Yet we’re hampered by a…

  • The Framer, the Fighter and the Founder

    I’ve enjoyed hosting intimate, student-only salons with top influencers from my network in the past. We’re now trying to emulate that sense of exclusivity, while sharing it more broadly. So starting next Friday, November 13th, a handful of UW Communication Leadership students will join me on camera as we engage renowned National Geographic photographer (that’s…