read previous issues April 28, 2025 Hello Reader, If you are a leader, join me for the threshold workshop: "How to Be Out of Control." Here's why... Ride into the unknown Let's talk about the actual experience of leadership. On some days, a subway ride here in New York City is just that, a jostling yet practical means of getting from one place to another. But then there are other days. A fellow New Yorker sits next to me and begins talking as if we've known each other for a lifetime. A...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
read previous issues April 14, 2025 Hello Reader, I want to invite you to a workshop you might find liberating, "Being Out of Control," but first, I have a story for you... Let yourself live This awakening started as a dream. I found myself backstage at a rock concert, my hands holding black curtains and my face peeking through. The place smelled of cigarettes, perfume, beer, and old amps—the scent of youth and expectation. It felt familiar. At first, I thought I was in the present time, at a...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
read on thenewmystic.co March 5, 2025 Hello Reader, The idea first came when I thought of my hardships and delights as an immigrant. Over time, I turned it into an article for Developing Leaders Quarterly, a fearless, nourishing, and well designed journal. I can't hide it; I'm proud. 😁 The article is The Immigrants' Journey: Learning to Lead Others Where You Have Never Been Before. If you are a bit tired of the Hero's Journey, this alternative way of seeing applies to business, politics, and...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
read previous issues February 6, 2025 What does being a new mystic have to do with leadership? Everything. Leadership is primal. Like grass or blood flow or kindness. If you want to thrive or help others thrive, you will have to lead sooner or later. Below is my invitation to authentic leadership, followed by my free workshop offer. Lead as yourself Hello Reader, My friend Nate is a leader at a national non-profit organization untangling the knot of homelessness. He battled cancer years ago....
almost 2 years ago • 8 min read
read on thenewmystic.co December 11, 2024 As the year winds down, it's time to reflect and set the course for the following year. If you're ready to deepen your leadership practice—one defined by greater freedom, focus, and joy—I invite you to join my Leadership 1:1 Coaching Program, designed to help you navigate your most difficult challenges with clarity, courage, and renewed energy. I currently have two coaching spots available starting in January. If this is the right time for you, reply...
almost 2 years ago • 6 min read
read issues on your web browser November 26, 2024 Ode to cooking and chores Hello Reader, Do you believe your ordinary life can restore your politically and relationally broken heart and replenish your reservoirs of faith, hope, and love? Are you taking a much-needed break this season to return to your kitchen, garden, or garage? If so, you might enjoy my story below, originally published in Heat magazine under the title "If you learn to cook, you can change your life." In Ancient Greece, the...
almost 2 years ago • 8 min read
read on thenewmystic.co November 14, 2024 You have already arrived Hello Reader, Sometimes, whatever you think you are missing is not it, and what you are really missing is already there. Last May, I went to Tillamook, Oregon, to pick up an eight-week-old puppy and take her home. The woman who raised Lucca told me I would be challenged by her, probably beyond what I could bear. Most importantly, taking the puppy out of the carrier to comfort her during the two-hour ride to the airport would...
almost 2 years ago • 5 min read
read on thenewmystic.co October 29, 2024 You are in on it What is really going on? This is the first existential question I remember having. I was thirteen. Pressing my forehead on a window and looking at my breath fog the glass, I whispered to myself, "So, this is it?" The way I saw it then, the adult life was one big caravan of mediocrity. Work, television, alcohol. Sleep, eat, poop. Sports, sex, politics. According to the adults, this, or a version of this, is all there is. Almost 50 years...
about 2 years ago • 3 min read