Well. Here we are.
If you have been on my list for a while, you already know I have loved every single business I have ever built while I was in it. My father gave me a lot of things I could have done without, but his love of serial entrepreneurship was not one of them. I got that gene hard.
Some of you found me through Simple Pleasures, my organic skincare line. Some of you were real estate clients. A lot of you showed up when I was trying to get the world to wash their clothes with a berry, which is still one of my favourite sentences to say out loud. Some of you came when I became a life and health coach, a few from Nia or yoga or meditation, and some of you are simply family and friends who have shown up for every single version of me. Thank you. I mean that.
The thread that ran through all of it was never the product. It was the stories, and what I learned from them. Mostly women's stories. Thirty years of women telling me what they were waiting for, what they were afraid of, what they had quietly stopped hoping for. Alongside those stories I was building real knowledge. Certifications, training, years of study in wellness, health coaching, meditation and regenerative health. What I kept noticing was that inside every story was something teachable. A pattern. A question worth asking out loud. That is what pulled me to workshops and rooms full of women who needed to hear what other women had already lived through but never said out loud.
I got on a stage at 10 years old and had a crowd laughing so hard a man fell out of his chair in the middle of a church. I have loved being in front of a room ever since. One to one has always felt vulnerable to me. But in a room, or in a letter like this one, I can say what I actually think.
So here is what I actually think. We spend so much of our lives performing the version of ourselves that got approved a long time ago. And at some point, usually somewhere in our 40s or 50s or beyond, something starts knocking from the inside. That is what I want to talk about. Every single week.
Right now what I am building looks like this.
Unearth Your Yes is my core work. I have a free PDF guide with five questions that will, if you sit with them honestly, show you exactly where you have been saying no to yourself. Get the free guide here.
I have a free live session on May 14th at 7pm Eastern on Zoom where I will hold space for women who are done waiting. No pitch until the last five minutes, I promise. Just a real conversation. Register here.
And I have a 90-minute paid workshop on May 28th at 7pm Eastern for $47 where we go deeper. Grab your spot here.
The Crone Stories podcast is coming. I spent today in conversation with five extraordinary women whose stories of transformation through midlife will become the first episodes. Women do not come on my podcast. They have a conversation with me, and I shape it into something worth hearing. If you have a story you want told, start here: Submit your story.
And I posted a healing meditation on YouTube this week. Fair warning: it is a little crooked. I am not a videographer. Yet. Watch it here.
This newsletter is going to be different from anything I have sent before. Every week I am going to leave you with one question. A real one. Not a journal prompt. A question worth carrying around for a few days. And the following week I will answer it myself. Honestly. Which means you will occasionally get to see me be completely human about it.
I have wanted to do this for a long time. My own fears stopped me because there are parts of me that are still a work in progress and I thought I couldn't show up until I had it all figured out. But that isn't true. We are never done. And to keep sitting on what I know is my purpose because I am not yet perfect at being human would be, honestly, a little unkind to myself. The best coaches are often not the ones who play the sport. They see something others miss precisely because they are watching from a different angle.
So yes. I am still messy. And I am here anyway.
The life we don't examine stays the life we didn't choose.
Here is your first question for The View From Here:
What has your younger self been vetoing that your wiser self is finally ready to overrule?
Sit with it. Reply if something moves in you. I read everything.
In love, light and laughter — Karen
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