Sep 29
We don't grow at the same pace
Last year a client triggered me into my own growth. This year the client came back and I was ready. The surprise was who needed to grow this time.
2 min read
Marissa Brassfield
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Sep 28
Signs You've Outgrown Your Career: What the Restlessness Is Telling You
Restlessness in a role that looks good on paper is information. Here are the signs you've outgrown your career, plus a seven-step audit to run this week.
8 min read
Sep 25
AI Writing That Sounds Like You: The Voice-Integrity Method
AI writing that sounds like you begins with your own real words, retrieved first, so the machine fills in around your voice instead of inventing it.
7 min read
Sep 23
Going Fractional After Corporate: The Identity Work Before the Logistics
Going fractional after corporate? Pricing and positioning fail when your identity hasn't caught up to the title you left. The identity work comes first.
9 min read
Sep 22
The familiar hell and the 12-month question
The known misery has stopped making a case for itself. One question forces the comparison it keeps avoiding.
2 min read
Sep 21
Why AI Pilots Fail: The Behavior Layer Underneath the 95% Number
MIT found 95% of generative AI pilots produce no P&L return. The reason sits under the tool, in the habit layer running the workday.
8 min read
Sep 18
Energy Management vs Time Management: A Field Guide
A practitioner's field guide to energy management vs time management, built on Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz's four-dimension framework and one workweek.
7 min read
Sep 16
I Run a Company, a Household, and an AI Fleet: An Entrepreneur Mother's Operating System
How I use entrepreneur mom AI to run a company and a household on a 3.5-day workweek, with a fleet of agents carrying recurring work.
8 min read
Sep 15
A reason, a season, or a lifetime
The old saying is a sorting question. Every relationship the clearing left standing is serving one of the three.
2 min read
Sep 14
The 90-Second Body Scan Before a High-Stakes Decision
A 90-second body scan before a decision, the London trading-floor research behind it, and the somatic marker hypothesis that explains why it works.
9 min read
Sep 11
Fractional Executive Loneliness: The Cost Nobody Budgets For
Fractional executive loneliness is real and structural. What coaching 400 CTOs taught me about the fix that holds.
6 min read
Sep 09
Best Frameworks for Founders Who Want Their Time Back
The best frameworks for founders, ranked by how fast the hours come back. Ten frameworks, each judged by the hours you can point at.
7 min read