2024–present
The Rest Revolution
Productivity built on depletion is a debt. Rest is not the reward for the work; it's a condition of doing it well.
Journalism & Special Projects
I believe ideas become more powerful when we bring people together around them.
Explore my writing, interviews, conversations, and gatherings exploring restoration, ambition, creativity, mental health, leadership, and the work of becoming.
The Restoration Writers Festival
Creating spaces for writers to restore, create, and connect
In September 2026, I co-produced and curated the inaugural Restoration Writers Festival, a one-day writing and wellness gathering in Washington, D.C. Supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Howard University School of Education, and The Cherry Blossom (DC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, the festival brought writers, authors, podcasters, scholars, and creatives together for intimate conversations, writing and craft, and restorative sessions designed to nourish both the writer and the human behind the words.
I closed the event by facilitating a restorative soundbath for all attendees. I also interviewed New York Times bestselling author Alex Elle and award-winning podcast host Demetria L. Lucas on the main stage. The festival grew from my belief that creative work needs restoration, and that some of our most meaningful ideas emerge when we create space to gather in community and rest.
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Forbes Careers Column
Regular columns on leadership, personal brand, and career reinvention.
Read on ForbesBusiness Insider Personal Essays
Personal essays on work, identity, and what it means to keep building a life.
Read on Business InsiderMy Podcast
Purposescaping: build confidence to reinvent and find purpose — conversations on becoming who you’re meant to be.
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The Rest Revolution: weekly essays, frameworks, and the Sanctuary for paid members.
Subscribe on SubstackRosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship
The Mental Health Challenges of Midlife High Achievers
Ambitious midlife professionals are achievement-minded, both at work and home. But what happens to their mental health when they routinely set the bar high for parenting, caretaking, and careers while simultaneously setting the bar low for health, self-care, and social bonds? The Carter Center generously supported my search for answers through a yearlong reporting fellowship. For Forbes Careers, I reported on how caregiving burnout, information overload, the calls for solf life self-preservatin, work addiction, longterm unemployment, and parental stress shape the mental health of midlife professionals.
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The Washington Post
On burnout, rest, and the cost of always-on workMy BIG ideas
2017–present
Purposescaping
A career isn't a ladder to climb, it's a landscape to shape — around what you're for, not what's available.
2013–present
Package Your Genius
The expertise you take for granted is the expertise someone else is searching for. Naming it is the whole job.
Essays
Read the essays here.
Perfectionism & burnout
We Were Raised to Over-Prepare. Now That We're Over 40, It's Costing Us Too Much.
Oversleeping the night before a talk showed me how needless preparation burns high achievers out.
Ambition & rest
Why the Overachiever's Pendulum Swings From Building to Burnout and Back Again
What happens when you finally feel rested enough to build again?
PURPOSESCAPING
The Hidden Threat of a Growth Season
We prepare for pests and weeds when we find success, but rarely for the summer storms.
Watch
An interview on rest, work, and the ideas behind the writing
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The Rest Revolution on Substack
Exploring burnout, inheritances, and the choice to move differently in midlife. The Substack picks up where the book and my Carter Center fellowship left off — personal essays, reporting, and the frameworks I use with clients, for readers who aren’t trying to stop achieving, just to stop achieving at the expense of everything else.
Essays
Personal writing on inheritances — what family, school, and era taught us about worth, and the ongoing choice to rewrite that narrative.
Frameworks
Brand strategies, workshops, and tools from fifteen years of Package Your Genius — for the seasons when your energy swings back toward the work.
The Sanctuary
For paid members: a growing library of recorded sound baths and somatic sessions, facilitated through the Auster Sound Method.