Hustle and Float

If you’re ready to accept that there is a better way and are prepared to ask yourself difficult and maybe painful questions—this book is for you.

If you’re willing to challenge some of society’s most closely held definitions of success and achievement—this book is for you.

If you’ve ever felt suffocated by the pressure of producing, producing, producing—this book is for you.

If you’ve struggled with burnout, held yourself to impossible standards, lamented your life in comparisons to others on social media, and woken up in the middle of the night with the fear that you’re never going to get to that novel, that project, that business idea—this book is for you.

we will continue to spiral deeper into a belief system that will actually hurt our ability to continue to produce creative work in a meaningful way.

spark conversations that will help us to shed light on these interconnected forces in order to start making real, positive changes.

There isn’t a single person who won’t nod their head in agreement at the advice that they should take a break, work less, or take more vacation. And yet we don’t.

The frustration of knowing better and yet not doing better was a sharp reminder of the gap that often exists between our beliefs and rational mind.

I berated myself for not being able to get it together, for not writing enough, missing word count deadlines, not waking up at 5:00 a.m. to journal and drink kale smoothies.

It was one of the most petrifying experiences of my life.