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Reflections on identity, leadership, and the courage to return There is a question buried in the oldest story ever told. God walks through the garden, and calls out to a man hiding in the shadows: "Where are you?" It wasn't a question about geography. It was a question about identity. About who Adam and Eve had become — or rather, who they had forgotten they were. That question echoes across millennia. It echoes across continents. And if we are honest, it echoes somewhere ins

The echo chambers that shape how you think, decide, and become There's sometimes a moment in a meaningful conversation where something shifts. The space between us subtly changes. Because perhaps, a question lands differently, or you experience an internal reaction of defence rise up as automatically as a sneeze. And you realise — oh. I've never actually thought about it that way. I had one of those moments recently. Someone challenged an assumption I'd been carrying — not ag

There's a particular kind of silence that follows a mountaintop moment, or worse, a mountaintop season. You've just experienced something extraordinary — maybe it was a breakthrough in your business, a clear word from God, a season of momentum that felt almost impossible to contain. And then, almost without warning, the noise dies down. The crowd disperses. The results stop coming in. And you're left sitting in a boat that feels smaller than it did before — with wind you were

One of the most powerful — and, in my opinion, most dangerous — words to emerge from the Covid chapter is normalize. We spoke of the new normal. We adjusted. We adapted. We moved on. That's good. But did we move on well? Normalize used to mean bringing something into conformity with an established standard. You took the outlier and brought it back into line. What it seems to mean now is something far more unsettling: we change the standard to accommodate the outlier. We don't

In a recent coaching conversation, I said to the person, "You know you're building a case to support that assumption, right?" A pause. A slow nod, the dawning realization. We were talking about a decision they'd already made — one that quietly crossed a line they'd set for themselves. And without realising it, they had taken the twenty minutes or so giving me all the supporting “evidence” that their decision “felt” right. They weren't being dishonest with me. No, it all sound

Putting Down What Was Never Yours to Carry We’ve spent three weeks looking at what to amplify, what to reduce, and what to finally get started in our lives. This final instalment is the most personal of the four — because stopping isn’t just a practical decision. For most of us, it’s a spiritual and emotional one. And it begins with a distinction that changes everything. Not everything you’re carrying was given to you by God. Some of it you picked up yourself — out of obligat