When I lived on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, we’d often spend up to an hour driving around checking the surf. It was ridiculous at times. There were so many places to look, we’d often get caught up in the search. Driving from one end of the strip to the other. Fear of a missed opportunity elsewhere...

If you are learning to make a croquembouche, it’s helpful to have a guide. Choux pastry puffs are difficult to do well in their own right, let alone assembled in the sky-scraper like cone formation. We watch, listen, read, and mirror. We listen to the guide, we practice. The guide is relevant. Whoever is lucky...

A one to one connection is nice. A direct message, a deep dive conversation. These are powerful, and often the only way we can create a certain environment. Often though, it’s more powerful to have that same conversation on an open platform. This allows the same exchange to bring value directly to the group. Almost...

Imagine jumping in the Tesla P100D. It’ll do 0-100km in around 2.5 seconds. The high speed rail network in China is designed to hurtle passengers along up to 250km/hr. It’s one thing to experience moving quickly. It’s another to try and transform quickly. When we look at the project you’re creating, your movement journey, the...

Yesterday I sat with Sina King, #22 most influential burlesque dancer in the world. We landed on the topic of developing confidence – it’s certainly critical in her work and it’s also really powerful for anyone trying to create change in their work or business. Whether someone is walking onto a stage to dance, or...

How I feel when I visit a certain business isn’t really tangible. It’s something internal, something soft, something we can’t see. A lot of times we talk about creating a particular culture, or that we want to feel a certain way in our relationships – we want a specific intangible result. But to create these...

A creator is someone who is “adding to” the culture. Art, speaking, writing, designing, baking specialty donuts… whatever. Sometimes creators really they identify with this… often as “a creative.” Really though, all of us are creators if we want to be. So the paradox really hits everyone. Now the creator’s paradox is super simple: To...

We love generosity. A give with no expectation – a smile from the staff at the cafe, a podcast drops from your favourite creator… For a business or freelancer, a posture of generosity helps to generate both attention and trust in the community. It’s kind of critical really as we move forward in a crowded...