HeyJaredThere's Always A Story
A weekly newsletter to help spark reflection and uncover meaning in the small and large moments in life. Written by a former music and brain scientist turned award-winning author, podcaster, and creative director.
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In my human era (opens the original)
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Last Tuesday, on the first day of fall, I was up very early en route to Washington, DC, to do something I have never done before: Engage in a serious amount of people’ing in less than 48 hours, generally in service of my consulting practice.It felt symbolic that it was the autumn equinox — the marking of the next stage of my reset following a complete shit show of a summer. Right now I’m reconnecting with one of my strongest assets — my instincts — and doing business in authe
4 cakes in 4 weeks (opens the original)
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A lot can happen in four weeks. As I wrote last week, life has been rough for several months — and in an intense gear pretty much since the start of the year. I’m so grateful to have transitioned out of that painful place.My emotional trajectory over the past four weeks — and four cakes — has been something. Baking cakes usually is therapeutic for me so I thought it would be interesting to share about the four cakes I made. When I made cakes #1 and #2, I was deep in the muck. Cake
How I’m hitting the reset button on life (opens the original)
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I have been in a rough place for several months. I’m not going to go into the details, but I can share that it has felt similar to other painfully stressful periods in my life during which my hair started falling out, I collapsed on the floor in a “stress seizure,” and I developed intense inflammation responses throughout my entire body.This time the signals were horrendously disrupted sleep (until last week I hadn’t slept through the night in months), my back feeling like — in the words of my k
Rebuilding the Zen den (opens the original)
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I’m usually highly tuned to getting things out of my house, but we’re in a transitional phase making select acquisitions that I figured could be useful to folks here. There is, of course, a story behind this.Back in 2018 we did something that felt super adult: When Laurel and Violet moved up to the loft level in our home, we reclaimed the bedroom they used to share and created what I referred to as the Zen den. Following the guidance of my genius design friend Paige Lewin, we repainted the mint
7 zucchini recipes (opens the original)
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I appear to have an all or nothing relationship with zucchini. If I purchase one or two at the grocery store with no immediate plan on how to use them, they rot in my produce drawer. Whereas if I find myself with a 20+ pound bag, I get to work.In the past month, I have purchased two massive bags of “day old picked” zucchini for $5 at a beloved farm stand. I thought it would be fun to share some recipes — 5 I have tried and loved, and 2 I am planning on trying — in case you also find yourself wit
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