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June 2, 2026

Help me shape what this becomes

I’m taking a deliberate pause to rebuild this newsletter and I need your help.

I’m taking about a month away from the weekly cadence to rethink everything for this newsletter.

Over weeks, I’ve realized how confining the weekly, three-minute format has become. It’s limiting what I can give you and takes roughly ten hours weekly to produce—an unsustainable amount for me.

I want to give more room to how emotional intelligence shows up with each leadership challenge I write about. For that reason, there will be fewer issues so the work can have more substance and depth. The aim for each issue will still be to keep it concise, but not constrained at a rough three-minute read.

Before I relaunch, I want to hear from you. You’re a small and unusually engaged group of readers. I’m grateful for that.

Give me a few minutes of input and feedback with this short survey. Your answers will help shape what’s to come.

I’m also setting aside time for one-on-one 20-minute conversations by phone or video with up to 10 of you who want to be more involved. If you want to sign up for a call, it will be in the survey. The survey closes on June 19th.

Once I've had the conversations and the survey results, I hope to share them with you, prior to relaunching.

I want to create something better for you. I need to know what you need from the newsletter and I’ll do my best to make it happen.

Do this with me and I’ll be back with a better newsletter soon. Thank you.

Kind regards,

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