Living From Soul ®

There is a pen on your table, and you’re already writing with it. A look at the quiet ways successful leaders keep living a story they started years ago. It also asks what it takes to sit in the seat of the author again.

Through a Roman waiter and a tech executive’s sixteen-month transition, this essay explores how successful leaders lose touch with the principle underneath their work and how reconnecting to it reshapes career decisions.

A dictation app made writing effortless for me, and somewhere along the way I stopped writing. The gap it left showed me I’d been using one word to describe two very different things. At a time when AI can produce beautiful words all day long, one of them has never been more valuable.

Celinne Da Costa on why external success stopped defining her life, and how giving your deepest desires a vote in everyday decisions builds a life you’ll want to remember.

Last week we looked at what we reach for to relieve uncomfortable emotions. This week, the words. Overexplaining is doing you a favour — and inside are five questions for the next time you catch yourself adding one more sentence.

Why high achievers skilled at regulating emotions often avoid actually feeling them — and how staying with loneliness, instead of fixing it, surfaces the desire underneath and changes what you do next.

This piece explores why high performers unconsciously slow their own progress when stress creeps into the very domains they love, and what it takes to advance faster by returning to the enjoyment that fueled growth in the first place.

This piece reframes authenticity for leaders: being yourself is effortless, but performing a version of yourself is exhausting. It shows the observable signs of that performance, and why the real block sits underneath the message.

This piece explores why being understood — not loved — is our deepest human need, how leaders can offer this to the people around them, and what changes in rooms, teams, and relationships when they do.

This piece explores why high-achieving leaders exhaust themselves trying to force growth, how scaling actually works when you stop pulling and start tending, and what conditions allow a business — or a life — to expand with ease instead of burnout.

This piece explores why high-achievers are wired to fear mistakes, why perfectionism contracts you out of your own creativity, and how to train recovery speed — the actual skill that separates people who keep growing from people who stay safe.