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Join the Sacred Systems waitlist: ⁠https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred⁠ Habit tracking can be a love and hate relationship. I feel like I have figured out how to make it all love. In this episode, I open my Notion and read you my daily practice. It is not a list of rules. It is a menu of all the things that make me feel good and bring me back to myself. In this episode: Your habit tracker isn't there to make you super consistent. It shows you what a really good day looks like.When a habit slips, ask what would make it easier, not how to try harder.My full daily practice menu, from posture work and sardines to saffron tea and face yoga.Why I only check off what I naturally and organically do.How small breaks, like getting up to take my vitamins, reconnect me with my higher self.

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Join the Sacred Systems waitlist: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred Do you open your habit tracker and feel bad about all the empty boxes? In this episode, I share why I love my habit tracker and why I never aim for a perfect streak. I call it my daily practice, and I treat it as something sacred I do to honor myself. You will hear why forced check marks give you dirty data. And how honest tracking shows you exactly where you need more support. In this episode: Why I call my habit tracker a daily practice.Checking boxes with willpower creates dirty data.Your unchecked boxes matter just as much as the checked ones.The weekly review looks for patterns, not consistency.How to change your circumstances or beliefs so a habit gets easier.

LINK: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred In this episode I share a very simple systems tip. I keep one page titled Brain Dump where anything and everything that pops up in my head goes during the week, and then I let Claude help me put it all in the right place. This is for you if you want to stop holding it all in your psyche and set it down instead, without spending an hour putting every single thing away by yourself.

Join the Sacred Systems waitlist: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred Systems are not about getting more done. In this episode I share what I think is the whole point of systems. When you carry everything, your body becomes the system, and there is no room left to hear yourself. I talk about how putting it all down opens space to tune in to your body and make decisions from the present moment. In this episode: Why carrying everything in your head crowds out your intuition.The simple rule I teach in Sacred Systems: the database can handle it.How I look at my day like the queen giving orders, not the servant taking them.Why honoring your well-being makes you more productive than checking boxes.

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Links: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred When I open that Notion task on the first of every month, it's not a productivity check-in — it's a reminder that I'm not the one driving. This episode is about the monthly ritual I've been doing for a year that changed how I relate to goals, plans, and the way life actually unfolds. Less forcing, more noticing. In this episode: • Why I built a dead-simple monthly check-in table in Notion — and what it's shown me that no amount of planning ever could • How I stopped being the person trying to make things go to plan and became someone who just watches how the plan unfolds • The real reason detachment from your goals isn't passive — it's what puts you in a position to actually receive what's happening for you • Why the breakdown almost always comes right before the breakthrough, and how seeing that laid out month by month changes everything

Join Sacred Systems in this month of September and get a bonus 1-1 call with me: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred In this episode I get into why the ADHD brain keeps hunting for the next new system, and how I stopped fighting that need and started designing around it instead. The key is pairing a single source of truth with a deliberate dose of novelty — and once I understood why both matter neurologically, everything stopped feeling like a character flaw. In this episode: • Why I stopped trying to use one tool that does *everything* and built a system that *connects* everything instead • How my Daily Hub in Notion gives me internal regulation — and why I no longer feel weird about needing that • The way I use Monarch Money as a 10-second daily practice to stay emotionally intimate with my money, without it cluttering my core system • How I bring novelty into my day without blowing up my system — by transferring that day's tasks into whatever physical or digital tool sounds good right now • What's included in Sacred Systems, plus the bonus one-on-one call I'm offering if you join before the end of September

In this episode: • Why I treat a putter day as active self-care, not a detour from productivity • How I think about the home as a reflection of personal healing — and what it looks like when that's actually true • The reason releasing what's no longer part of your current season creates more forward momentum than pushing harder ever will • My daily rhythm for staying above the chaos threshold, including the one-thing-per-room tip I picked up from a creator with ADHD • How I use Claude to turn pictures of my skincare, medicine cabinet, and wellness products into printable one-page references — so I actually use the things I have Secret O.W.L. Society: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/ Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/podcast Join the newsletter: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/newsletter Our Courses: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/store Tools I Use: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/tools

🌸 👉 Join Say Yes to Desire: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/desire You already know the "right" way to do things — the batching, the scheduling, the perfectly planned rest days. And yet somehow, the plan always unravels. This episode is about a mindset shift I borrowed from a fitness podcast that changed how I approach things. The idea: what if life planned your rest days for you? When I stopped trying to engineer the perfect schedule and went all in on my own psychology instead, things got a lot easier — and I actually started showing up more than when I had a "real" plan.In this episode:• Why I adopted a fitness guy's "every day" mindset — and how it applies to podcasting, business, and anything else you keep planning around• How the relentless search for the expert-approved, bulletproof method has been disconnecting you from your own intuition• The reason your way is always going to be the best way — not as a feel-good platitude, but as a practical strategy for sustainability• How my own ADHD journey deepened my understanding of designing systems around how your brain actually works instead of fighting it

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Join Say Yes to Desire: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/desire Every piece of business advice tells you to get in your customer's head and solve their pain points. That can turn into codependency if you're not mindful. In this episode I make the case for solving your own pain points first — and why the business you build from that place is healthier, more cohesive, and a whole lot more fun. We get into niching down (yes, but not the way you think), the childhood roots of self-abandonment, and why you can't shrink a human being into a topic. Press play if you're tired of the same old, outdated advice. In this episode: Why solving your own pain points is a purer, more sustainable source of energy than chasing someone else'sThe codependency hiding inside "just focus on your customer" — and its roots in childhood self-abandonmentThe real distinction: your product can niche down, but you as a person and a business cannotWhy building many doorways beats convincing people they're in a crisis they don't have

Sacred Pause Dashboard: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/pause Sacred Systems: https://www.secretowlsociety.org/sacred The Beauty of Systems Thinking in Everyday Life Every month, I make myself a printable calendar. This month, I sat down to do it and my body said — we don't want to do this. So I listened. And by the end of the morning, I'd built a tool that makes the calendar for me. Moon phases, cycle tracking, your language, your holidays — done, every month, with zero work. In this episode, I'm talking about what makes that kind of moment possible: capacity. When everything lives in your head, all you can do is keep doing. But when you get it all out and into a system, you gain the perspective to ask better questions — do I even want to be doing this? Could I do it better, or do it less? I also share the simple practice that turns everything you're learning (perimenopause research, book recommendations, that tip from a podcast) into something you're actually living — instead of one more thing to carry. Because we've all defaulted to using our body as the system. And your body is meant for more.

Join the newsletter I've always been obsessed with one question: how do I make my life easier? It took me years to realize I was really asking how my ADHD brain could feel good in a life I designed for it. In this episode I get into the decade of coping strategies I built without knowing what I was dealing with, the invisible wall that makes everything heavier, and the chronic fatigue that comes from pushing through it all day. It's a rambling, honest look at what it means to stop forcing yourself and start reducing friction instead. In this episode: I built my entire business around what I like to do and rejected everything I didn'tThe Einstein fish-and-tree reframe that changes how you see your so-called weaknessesWhy we may resist investigating ADHD, and the grief sitting underneath itThe invisible wall of inertia, and the hidden fatigue of doing mental cartwheels to get past itThe one thing I'm obsessed with now: reducing friction in every tiny corner of life and business