When I was in my early twenties (all my most pathetic stories begin with those words), I was desperate to create an album of music that made a Statement.

It wasn’t enough to just put a few of my best songs together and share it. Oh, no! Every song had to have a concept, and they had to weave together to say something bigger.

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I’d like to tell you about a specific episode of podcast that offered a perfect example of the way a lot of modern experts share information without actually teaching anything.

In fact, I’ve collected many examples of this kind of thing that I want to share and publicly deconstruct.

However, I am still figuring out how to do that without being a sanctimonious jerk.

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Over lunch, my friend Amanda told me about a book she studied as a new mother recovering from childbirth and again in her current role as a childbirth educator.

Hearing the ideas from the book was fascinating. I have never read the book and I’ve never given birth, but so much of it felt familiar. The themes of empowerment, self-knowledge, and growth through difficulty were relevant to my experience, even though this book about childbirth applied them in a different context.

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Or maybe it is. How can you know for sure?

Increasingly, I’m noticing that a key role that I have in my clients’ lives is to be a filter.

Based on knowing them, their strengths, and their desired outcomes, I’m helping them to figure out which voices to listen to, what frameworks apply to them, and which advice to take.

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I have had an uneven tennis season.

I started back to the sport at the end of February and benefited from being in Atlanta, a tennis mecca if there ever was one. I had lost most of my tennis friends when I moved away shortly before the pandemic, but I worked my way up to playing five or six days a week through a combination of clinics, flex league matches, and casual play with friends and family.

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