I’ve been reading your replies

I’ve been getting some amazing responses to my most recent emails, this one in particular.

What struck me most as I read your replies was the quality of the questions you’re already asking yourselves.

Several of you circled the same tension from different angles.
A sense of having outgrown a structure, a role, or a way of operating… without yet having clean language for what comes next.

One reply in particular named something I’ve felt in my own life: bristling at a label or position not because it’s “bad,” but because it no longer tells the truth. For me, that showed up years ago when I realized I wasn’t actually supporting someone else’s vision — I was sharing my own gifts in a configuration that no longer fit. The discomfort was information, not failure.

A few of you asked some version of this question:
“I’m wondering if there’s something I’m doing (or not doing) that’s been moving these shifts along.”

That’s a powerful place to pause.

If you’re open to it, I’d invite you to spend a little quiet time with that question… not analyzing it, not solving it, just sitting with it. 

When you look back at moments where things eventually changed, where did you first register that something was off? Before you had words or a plan. Was it tension? Fatigue? A dullness where excitement used to live? Frustration?

This is the territory I care most about — and the work I’m stepping more fully into this year.

When we’re connected to ourselves, the body becomes an incredibly precise signal system. It registers misalignment early. Modern work trains us to override those signals, but they’re often the most honest data we have.

To one question that came up about why people respond to messages like these: in my experience, it’s rarely just one reason. 

Sometimes someone is genuinely in a good place… steady, capable, and simply sensing that more is possible. That’s expansion. 

Other times there’s real pressure, dissatisfaction, or grief asking to be acknowledged. That’s something else entirely.

Both are real.
Both deserve attention.
The difference often shows up in how it feels in the body — openness versus constriction, curiosity versus urgency.

I’m grateful you’re thinking alongside me, not just reading passively. This feels less like broadcasting and more like an ongoing conversation… one I don’t take lightly. Thank you.

More soon.

Marissa