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A newsletter exploring neurodivergence, nervous system healing, and the evolution of work, identity, and worth—on your terms. Rewriting the rules, one unmasked truth at a time.
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would you hire a candidate with an iced coffee? (opens the original)
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Would you hire someone who walks into an interview holding an iced coffee? A recruiter on Tiktok set that question loose on the internet, and this morning Stef and I took it on at our first collab Casual Coffee Monday — iced coffee in hand my hand, obviously. The recruiters argument: the drink makes the interview look like one more stop between Target and Starbucks. My answer: so what if it is? Life is a string of stops. Stef read her more generously — candidates still need a healthy gravity, a
Never Outshine the Master (and Other Rules I’m Done Following) (opens the original)
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Part Three, the finale of Egos, Credentials, and Social Media with guest Stef Hingley — on threat envy, crying at work, what managing up actually costs, and saying your price out loud.The first keynote Stef ever gave was about getting fired.Her very first one, and the firing was the whole talk. “Let’s just go in the deep end, man,” she said. “That’s just how I do it.”For a long time she’d hidden it. She had shame around it, and whenever it got close to the surface she’d reach for the other list
Casual Coffee with Jen and A Surprise Guest (opens the original)
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Fair warning before you hit play: we did NOT keep this PG.Did a totally unplanned coffee chat live this morning. No agenda, just me and my coffee, testing a new mic. A woman who calls herself Sacred hopped up to chat, and within ten minutes we’d covered ghosts stealing sauerkraut out from under her nose, chin hair nobody warns you about, and why 70 apparently comes with more horniness than she budgeted for. At one point I was laughing so hard I couldn’t read the chat. This is not the content I u
clean the tank, not the fish (opens the original)
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I’ve been sitting with an analogy for a while now, and it came when I went live with and for their series Confidently Creative?We were talking about creative confidence, but underneath a lot of that conversation was something I think gets missed when we talk about confidence at work. Sometimes what looks like a confidence problem isn’t really about confidence at all. Sometimes a person has learned, pretty accurately, what happens when they sp
Master Manipulators and Statements as Questions (opens the original)
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“John Doe is on that project too.”The statement sounds innocent at face value. It is not phrased as a question. Just a fact, dropped in the hallway or the group chat, by someone who isn’t your manager but is close to her. Nothing in you objects. No pause, no beat, no internal flag that says wait — why is she telling me this.The Divergent Talent Alchemist is a reader-supported publication. To receive new pos
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