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Sep 29, 2026 What’s Your Origin Story? Your origin story matters. It deserves to be understood, honored, and perhaps even loved. But the point of knowing where you came from isn’t to remain bound to what happened there. It’s to become more free to choose who you’ll be next.

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Aug 18, 2026 What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Money? What are we talking about when we talk about money? We are talking about safety and freedom. We are talking about worth and belonging.

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Jul 15, 2026 A Candle at the Threshold of Belonging What do we leave behind when we narrow the circle, when we teach our children that the stranger is the enemy, when we allow the frightened parts of ourselves to set the terms of public life? And what might we leave behind if, instead, we build homes, companies, communities, and nations large enough to hold the future?

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Jun 15, 2026 When Belonging Turns on Itself Fear is human. The question is not whether we will be afraid. The question is what we will allow fear to teach us. What do we teach our children and grandchildren about managing their fear?

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Jun 10, 2026 “I am enough; just as I am, I am enough.” In a world increasingly organized around exclusion, certainty, and public cruelty, we need people willing to build larger tables. Invite people in. Risk being misunderstood. Stop waiting for universal approval before becoming fully yourself.

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May 12, 2026 The End of Suffering Is Not the End of Pain What is my suffering doing, if I do not attend to it? How is it shaping the way I show up with others? Where is it narrowing my capacity to see clearly, to listen, to remain open?

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Mar 4, 2026 The End of Suffering The end of suffering, then, is not a future achievement. It is a shift in relationship. Pain remains part of life. Loss remains part of love. But the belief that we are uniquely broken, uniquely punished, uniquely alone begins to dissolve.

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Feb 24, 2026 Back to Basics: The Fundamental Elements of Being an Employee We must have cultures that work to integrate humanity and are guided by values. How can we hope to do that when we have companies that aren’t upfront with employees about the realities of performance and the expectations that come with a job?

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Feb 2, 2026 Being Okay With Being Okay It turns out elders aren’t made by age. They are made by choosing to stay when it would be easier to disappear, by offering the smallest kindness to a suffering soul, by helping just one more person make it through the night.

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Jan 6, 2026 The Courage to Be Human Reunion is not a noun. It is a verb. A brave, ongoing choice to return to one another and to ourselves. It is the work of staying present when it would be easier to look away. May we keep choosing the path that makes us more human

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