What if the problem isn’t that you don’t have time…

But that you’re waiting to find it instead of learning how to make it?

In this episode, I share a small experiment that started with a simple walk to work and turned into a sustainable practice: using movement, breathing, and thinking out loud to reclaim time without adding more to the calendar.

Along the way, a conversation with a friend introduces a quiet but powerful frame:

Based on life expectancy, he figures he has about twenty summers left.

Not as a morbid countdown — but as a clarity tool.

This episode explores what it means to treat ordinary days with intention, and how small, repeatable actions can shift how we experience time.

We talk about:

Why “busy” doesn’t have to be a personality

• The difference between finding time and making time

• A simple walk-and-talk method for thinking and processing

• Choosing a “price of admission” you’re willing to pay

• Redefining success as waking up, looking forward to your day

This isn’t about optimizing your whole life.

It’s about building one small practice you can sustain.

On my first day as a teacher, a vice principal said something that didn’t make sense at the time:

“We all have a shelf life. Pay attention to yours.”

Years later, that line came back and quietly changed my direction.

In this episode, I reflect on the mentors, moments, and early clues that shaped a career I never thoroughly planned — from discovering how music wired my brain, to learning the importance of sharing the spotlight, to recognizing when it was time to pivot.

This isn’t an episode about chasing a perfect path.

It’s about noticing patterns.

Listening for signals.

And learning to trust discernment more than rigid planning.

We explore:

• ​How curiosity often shows up as a quiet clue
• ​The difference between regret and trade-offs
• ​Why breadth has a “price of admission.”
• ​How mentors give us lines we don’t understand until we need them
• ​What a real “shelf life moment” feels like

If you’ve ever felt a gentle nudge that something in your life is shifting — or wondered whether it’s time to choose a new road — this episode is an invitation to pause, listen, and reflect.

A last-minute shoe purchase at Heathrow turns into a surprisingly useful life lesson: planning feels like identity, but follow-through is character. Along the way, I use AI as a pocket guide, run a values audit with a zipper, and learn how “good gear” doesn’t change your life—it changes your Tuesdays. This one’s about making the weight, leaving space, and choosing one decision that moves you forward.