I'm back (sort of)! And I've published a new Every piece...

on what coaching founders through VC pitches has taught me about living with integrity

Adam in his amazing new Montessori school house, aka "Picco"

I’m some mix of pleased, grief-stricken, excited, relieved, and trepidation-filled to share that baby Adam has officially begun his education at Guidepost Montessori’s amazing new “Picco” school house (as pictured above and further detailed by my husband Matt here). So you can expect more long-form posts to start trickling in again once I’ve dug my way out from under all the emails and end-of-semester tasks that’ve piled up for me in meantime.

Until then, here’s my latest Every piece to tide you over. It’s titled “Don’t ‘Fake it Till You Make It’: Instead, Remember What You Know.” At the broadest level, it’s about how to navigate conflicting emotions of any sort with integrity, and thus how to build yourself into a more unconflictedly joyful, confident, integrated person over time.

Or, as I put it in this old tweet (back when Twitter was cool :/), it’s about how to live self-honestly:

The specific example I use throughout the piece is that of early-stage founders pitching investors, s…