Your weekly dose of Alluviance!
Yesterday, I wrote about the work on LinkedIn.
Today, I want to say something a little more plainly.
I’m not here to play the guy on the mountain who has it all figured out.
That version of me is old. And honestly, not that interesting. It’s also not true.
The real work has never looked like mastery from a distance.
It looks like being in the middle of your own sh*t while still choosing to show up. Still leading. Still listening. Still telling the truth. Still going first.
That’s the kind of leadership I believe in now.
Not the polished kind. Not the “let me teach you from the other side” kind.
I’m much more interested in the kind of leadership that says:
I’m in the dojo too. I know what depression feels like. I know what self-doubt feels like. I know what it’s like to want to grip tighter, control more, force the outcome.
And I also know that none of that is the way.
So no, I’m not writing to you from a throne.
I’m writing to you with my hands in the dirt. As someone doing the work in real time. As someone getting humbled by it. As someone being changed by it.
And that's who I'm committed to being. Leading this incredible community while doing the real work right along side all of you.
Beginning of the beginning.
P.S. If you’re in a season where life is asking more of you than you feel ready for, you’re not broken. You might just be in the middle of your becoming.
1. Featured LinkedIn Post:
"It becomes the messenger."
I was depressed again last week.
Not the 2017 version where I live in a hole in the wall apartment in SF, 30 pounds overweight, whispering "what if people knew I actually hated my life?" under my breath. That version is gone.
This was the 2026 version...
2. Quote to fuel your Alluviance:
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." — Kahlil Gibran via (Scott Jeffrey on LinkedIn)