Think Outside the Lines
Think Outside the Lines is a space for clarity, purpose, and genuine connection.A place for honest reflection, thought-provoking conversation, and meaningful growth — rooted not in doing more, but in becoming more aligned, more present, and more authentic in the way we move…
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Amanda Udis-Kessler (Pt 2): What If You Traded Control for Presence? (opens the original)
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When Amanda Udis-Kessler came back for a second conversation, the ground had shifted again. In Part 1, she told the story of rebuilding her entire life at sixty. This time she goes inward, to the harder, quieter work of showing up as her whole self once the external obstacles are gone. What she keeps hearing, in her job, her friendships, and her own healing, is a single instruction: trade control for presence. After sixty years of managing life's challenges by trying to control everything, she i
Amanda Udis-Kessler (Pt 1): What If the Wake-Up Call Isn't One Big Moment? (opens the original)
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At sixty, in the span of a single year, Amanda Udis-Kessler ended a thirty-year relationship, left the home she shared, walked away from a two-decade career in higher education, and became the pastor of a small church. From the outside it can look like one dramatic reinvention. Up close, it was anything but. There was no single lightning-bolt moment. There was a cancer diagnosis that reminded her she would not live forever. There was a health crisis that interrupted a lifelong eating disorder an
What Permission Are You Still Waiting For? (opens the original)
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There's something you want to do. You've thought about it for months, maybe years. You've imagined it, researched it, talked around it with friends who told you to go for it. And still, you haven't started. If someone asked you why, you'd have a list of good, practical reasons. But underneath all of them is a simpler one you probably haven't said out loud: you're waiting for permission. This short solo episode sits with that quiet truth. Nobody hands out permission slips for career changes, crea
Gila Melamed: What If You've Been on the Right Path All Along? (opens the original)
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At fifty-something, Gila Melamed gave away ninety-eight percent of what she owned, converted first a small car and then a minivan into a home, and drove off to live nomadically in the wild she had always felt she belonged to. She does not call it an escape. She calls it an experiment in alignment. The road was the last step in a much longer story. Years earlier, at her lowest point, Gila survived a moment that nearly ended her life. A single sentence from her therapist, that a decision made seve
What Would You Choose If No One Was Watching? (opens the original)
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Here is a question that sounds simple and gets uncomfortable fast. What would you choose if no one was watching? Not what would you do without consequences. That is a different question. This one is about audience. Because most of us are performing all the time, and we have been doing it so long we have forgotten we are doing it. This short solo episode looks at the quiet cost of that performance. The steady editing of yourself for the room. Saying what will land instead of what you actually thi
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