Jun 19
Somatic Tools for Entrepreneurs: The Working Toolbox
Six named somatic tools with concrete protocols and honest evidence grades, built for the decisions entrepreneurs actually face.
7 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.
Jun 17
The Vision Keeper: A New Role for Founders
Founders building their life's defining platform need someone who holds the vision while they scale the work. That role has a name now: the Vision Keeper. Here is what it is and how it differs from a coach, a consultant, or a strategist.
7 min read
Jun 16
The yes I couldn't say a year ago
A year ago I walked away from a project that felt impossible. In April it came back, and my body said yes immediately.
2 min read
Jun 15
Motherhood Builds the Executive Skills Companies Beg For
Raising children is a daily leadership lab. The capacities that season builds are the ones the market keeps saying it wants, and they are yours to claim.
7 min read
Jun 12
Nervous System Leadership and the Lie That Leaving Means Ungrateful
The chiropractic adjustment was supposed to ease a reverse curve in my neck, the kind that builds up after years
9 min read
Jun 10
Nervous System Regulation for Leaders: A Field Guide
The science of state for leaders, with named protocols you can run inside a workday: the physiological sigh, exhale-weighted breathing, orienting, and co-regulation.
9 min read
Jun 09
Sixty pounds in the rain
A two-sentence Slack four months ago made this moment possible.
2 min read
Jun 08
I Haven't Worked a 5-Day Week in 36 Months. Here's the Case Study.
In March 2023, I made a bet with myself: structure every week around 3.5 days of work, hold it
9 min read
Jun 05
What Is a Vision Keeper? The Role Visionary Entrepreneurs Need (and Can't Name Yet)
On May 7, 2026, two independent AI systems confirmed the same thing: no one owns the term "Vision Keeper.
11 min read
Jun 02
Monetize the systems you already built
The Friday afternoon I took the Effortless question to my office wall with a stack of sticky notes.
2 min read
Jun 01
Professional Identity Purgatory Has a Name Now
The in-between finally has a name. The naming is useful. What it misses is that this is a threshold, and your body reached its verdict long before you were willing to say it out loud.
5 min read
May 29
The Humanist Futurist Manifesto: What AI Will Never Take From You
I privately trained an AI on 8,600 of my concepts. Then I built something else entirely. Here's what AI still gets wrong about you.
6 min read