Celebrating Life & Connections. Dia De Los Muertos Festival tent in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC Last weekend, the Día de los Muertos festival hit me right in the values: color, culture, and community. It also made me miss six years of Huatulco trips and the friends we made there. Megan with Jack the Radio Rockin' out: Remember Megan, the waitress who watched my TEDx on her break and came back with notes? We’re friends now. I took her to her first rock show. She asked if she needed earplugs....

Your output follows your environment. Change the room, change your result. Why it matters Context drives cognition. Notifications steal focus by design. Guardrails beat willpower. What you’ll learn Match your room to the task using the cathedral effect. Phone, chat, email: simple settings that protect deep work. Signals and rituals your team will actually respect. LISTEN HERE (28 min) READ THE SUMMARY P.S. Want your whole team aligned? Bring RaderCo in for an Elevate Your Focus program.

Kitchen chaos, PT truths, and surprise book-club love. The kitchen renovation rolls on, and I’m now a whiz at healthy meals powered by a Yeti cooler + microwave combo (shoutout to Hungryroot and Aldi). We’ve only caved to the siren call of takeout once. We also escaped to Greenville, NC, for my husband’s disc golf tournament, where a working sink and oven felt like a luxury resort. Lessons earned: 1) I’d rent a coworking space for a month. 2) We’d move all the furniture to the garage for...