August 18, 2026

The Hero’s Journey, Part Two: When Was the Last Time Your Life Loved You Back?

On grief, achievement, exhaustion, and an unexpected message from Edgar Allan Poe We heard you. You want stories, not articles. Your brain is a story machine, seeking patterns and structure. This is a story from inside the world and mind of an origin founder of the GPC Community. Follow along for the […]
August 17, 2026

The Hero’s Journey, Part One: The Trouble With Being an “Idea Person”

Who gets to decide when a gift becomes a liability? We heard you. You want stories, not articles. Your brain is a story machine, seeking patterns and structure. This is a story from inside the world and mind of an origin founder of the GPC Community. Start here and come back twice […]
August 10, 2026

My Secret for Cutting Through the AI Noise

Two women, brilliant writers, past 50, make the most sense For the past 3,000 years writers have not used AI to get their thoughts and stories in a final form worth putting into the world. I’m one of those writers. I’ve been turning observations and strategies into stories for 50 years, and […]
April 9, 2026

Top 10 Substack Writers are Past 80

What can you learn and what do they have in common? Compound money and what do you have? Wealth. Compound creativity and what do you have? SuperAgers with successful Substack publications. Neuroscience research for 30 years confirmed that creative practice isn’t merely protective for the brain, it actively builds cognitive capacity throughout […]
January 22, 2026

They Don’t Know What They Want. And They Won’t Be Happy Until They Get It.

It was the dawn of the internet for consumers. It was 1999. We did our work in person because this was before email, before Zoom, and before cell phones. Well, there was BlackBerry, but only for the wealthy or tech nerds. We traveled to meetings, even if it was a walk down […]
January 16, 2026

Do You Need a Break or a Certified Forest Therapy Guide?

Probably both. If you are a highly sensitive idealist, activist, and creative with ambitious goals Warning: Content may cause sudden clarity and extreme joy, awe, and belief in humanity. Meet Lori L. Cangilla, Ph.D., psychologist and founder of the Singularly Sensitive approach to therapy for gifted adults and the Highly Sensitive Person […]
December 31, 2025

2025 Winner of In-Your-Face, Daily Deluge, Confusing Content

It’s Not Trump In 2025, artificial intelligence dominated headlines and articles more significantly than coverage of Trump and his administration. Trump news was noisy and disturbing; yet, the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) was far more pervasive and multifaceted. The sheer volume and variety of perspectives on AI, spanning existential concerns to […]
December 2, 2025

Ever Wonder Why The Most Successful People Make Time for You?

The first week of December, Trish would open her schedule for a long lunch and engage in deep listening and storytelling about everything that makes us human. We would resist the temptation to talk about work. We could do that all other days of the year, and we often did, for more […]
November 17, 2025

Book Therapy

Write Your Own Prescription for Sanity During a crisis, the human brain shuts off all questionable information and demands truth, verifiable facts, and reliable direction. Fire? Where is the exit? Pandemic? Where is the vaccine or emergency room? Tornado? Where is the safe room? When the crisis is not real but manufactured, […]