LEGACY | It Begins With Every Choice Made Today
Legacy was never about the end. The word has been lying to you about when it starts. We talk about legacy like it belongs to the will, the monument, the name on the building. This week Sanika goes back to the root of the word and finds something that asks a lot more of you […]
BOND | A Bond Is Not a Debt
Who would you call when things aren’t right, or when it’s time to celebrate? Now the harder question: do you feel like you owe them? This week the word is BOND, and I think most of us have been carrying the wrong definition. There is a version that keeps score and a version that keeps […]
SURRENDER | Letting Go Is Not Giving Up
You’ve been told surrender means you lost. That you stopped trying. That you couldn’t take it. But look at what you’re gripping right now. The outcome you planned for. The result you did everything right to earn. The thing that was never yours to hold in the first place. What is that grip costing you? […]
FAILURE | Stumbling in the Right Direction
Some of my biggest career failures was just me succeeding in the wrong direction.” Most of us treat failure like a verdict. A final word on who we are. But the oldest meaning of the word is much smaller than the one you were handed, and once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. This […]
WUK | Stick Ah Pin® II. Technology and Labour
You work every day. Do you know what that word is actually asking of you? Think about the favor you half did. The way you show up when nobody is watching. The hours you handed your phone today. All of it is work. All of it is spending something. This Stick Ah Pin® turns one […]
CURATE: Building a Life By Design, Not Default
As life progresses daily, some things fall into place, others we add as markers of success. Then there are the things that squeeze in there. Let’s say it comes with the highs and lows of existing. Jeff Marshall, JD has built a life in more than one room. The courtroom he trained for. The media […]
DISCIPLINE : The Bridge Between Lives
You were taught discipline as punishment. Somebody with authority handed you that definition, and you never checked the receipt. This episode goes back to where the word actually started, and it is not where you think. Then it gets personal: the one currency I protect above everything, the boundary most people never think to set, […]
WORTHY: You Were Never Not Enough
Worth is a market word. A price. Somewhere along the way we let it price us. But if there was a price, would we even want to set it? People are not currency. A human being and the soul we carry cannot be measured that way. It sounds mushy. It is also true. Even if […]
UNLEARN: What You Were Taught to Believe
Learning is how we absorb. It’s how we develop skills, figure out the world, find our footing. But when do we give any of it back? When do we drop what no longer serves? Unlearn is that step. This episode goes through what got installed before Sanika had a say: the family scripts, the migration […]
SWEET MOUTH: The Gift of the Gab Has Many Names | Stick Ah Pin ®
Sweet mouth. If you grew up around it, you already know the sound. The voice that could talk you into anything and leave you feeling good about it after. This is Stick Ah Pin®. Three times a season the main arc stops and we put a stake in the ground on Caribbean language and where […]