Integrity & Joy
@integrityandjoy.bsky.social
Integrity Coach, Certified Life Coach & Meditation Teacher
🎙️ Host of Integrity & Joy | Former Diplomat, Activist & Educator | Author of Forthcoming I Quit!
✨ Helping you live Aligned and Unshakable™
🎙️ Host of Integrity & Joy | Former Diplomat, Activist & Educator | Author of Forthcoming I Quit!
✨ Helping you live Aligned and Unshakable™
Here's my latest Substack on the challenges — and opportunities — if the first decade of adulthood.
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Adulthood, Rewritten
Integrity and improvisation in a world that won't sit still.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Here's my latest Substack on the challenges — and opportunities — if the first decade of adulthood.
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
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What It Means to "Build Anyway"
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What It Means to "Build Anyway"
You’ve already been building anyway. You just might not have named it yet.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What It Means to "Build Anyway"
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Feeling stuck, restless, or like you’re drifting? Tomorrow at 7pm ET I’m hosting a free 45-minute live preview of my new program, Aligned & Unshakable™.
Event Registration | Integrity And Joy
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September 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Feeling stuck, restless, or like you’re drifting? Tomorrow at 7pm ET I’m hosting a free 45-minute live preview of my new program, Aligned & Unshakable™.
Now Is the Moment
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Now Is the Moment
Most people wait for the perfect moment to change their lives. Here’s the truth: that moment never comes.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Now Is the Moment
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Drifting can feel safe, but it’s often the riskiest choice we make. I wrote about my own wake-up call in The Hidden Cost of Drifting.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
Read: open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
The Hidden Cost of Drifting
Why waiting too long to steer your own life is more expensive than you think
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September 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Drifting can feel safe, but it’s often the riskiest choice we make. I wrote about my own wake-up call in The Hidden Cost of Drifting.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
Read: open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
Every week, I have several live sessions on Aura Health and Insight Timer.
Tonight (Wednesday), I am on Aura ("Emotional Self Defense at 8pm EDT) and Insight Timer ("We Are All Connected" at 9:30pm EDT).
Aura: www.aurahealth.io/refer/aura-5...
Insight Timer: insig.ht/nbbbuEvEyWb?...
Tonight (Wednesday), I am on Aura ("Emotional Self Defense at 8pm EDT) and Insight Timer ("We Are All Connected" at 9:30pm EDT).
Aura: www.aurahealth.io/refer/aura-5...
Insight Timer: insig.ht/nbbbuEvEyWb?...
Join Emotional Self Defense live event on Aura
Claim your exclusive Aura Guest Pass and join the live event Emotional Self Defense
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September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Every week, I have several live sessions on Aura Health and Insight Timer.
Tonight (Wednesday), I am on Aura ("Emotional Self Defense at 8pm EDT) and Insight Timer ("We Are All Connected" at 9:30pm EDT).
Aura: www.aurahealth.io/refer/aura-5...
Insight Timer: insig.ht/nbbbuEvEyWb?...
Tonight (Wednesday), I am on Aura ("Emotional Self Defense at 8pm EDT) and Insight Timer ("We Are All Connected" at 9:30pm EDT).
Aura: www.aurahealth.io/refer/aura-5...
Insight Timer: insig.ht/nbbbuEvEyWb?...
The world feels chaotic — AI, climate change, polarization, loss of trust in institutions. No wonder so many of us feel restless, paralyzed, or adrift.
Living with Integrity in an Age of Uncertainty
How to create your own compass amidst chaos and disruption
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September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The world feels chaotic — AI, climate change, polarization, loss of trust in institutions. No wonder so many of us feel restless, paralyzed, or adrift.
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Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut.
They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
September 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut.
They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.
Ever realize the “map” you’re following isn’t even yours?
That was one of 3 big shifts that helped me get unstuck and start living with more clarity and courage.
I wrote about all 3 here:
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That was one of 3 big shifts that helped me get unstuck and start living with more clarity and courage.
I wrote about all 3 here:
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
Three Shifts on the Path to Aligned and Unshakable™
These three mindset shifts can unlock the life you've been waiting for...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ever realize the “map” you’re following isn’t even yours?
That was one of 3 big shifts that helped me get unstuck and start living with more clarity and courage.
I wrote about all 3 here:
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
That was one of 3 big shifts that helped me get unstuck and start living with more clarity and courage.
I wrote about all 3 here:
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
If you could change one thing about your inner voice this fall, what would it be?
September 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you could change one thing about your inner voice this fall, what would it be?
Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right” but still feel off? Like something’s missing? Or you're just stuck?
I've been working on a new program to help people like you...
I've been working on a new program to help people like you...
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right” but still feel off? Like something’s missing? Or you're just stuck?
I've been working on a new program to help people like you...
I've been working on a new program to help people like you...
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This isn't something that you "mock" It's not funny. It's not the sign of just a dumb-ass in the White House.
This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
JD Vance ridiculed after claiming World War 2 ended by ‘negotiations’
The vice president made the blunder on MSNBC’s Meet the Press while discussing Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war
www.independent.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This isn't something that you "mock" It's not funny. It's not the sign of just a dumb-ass in the White House.
This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Whose Map Are You Following?
Sometimes when we feel stuck or lost, we're just following someone else's map.
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Sometimes when we feel stuck or lost, we're just following someone else's map.
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Whose Map Are You Following?
Sometimes when we feel stuck or lost, we're just following someone else's map.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Whose Map Are You Following?
Sometimes when we feel stuck or lost, we're just following someone else's map.
open.substack.com
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
Sometimes when we feel stuck or lost, we're just following someone else's map.
open.substack.com
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
My new post on Substack is about the relationship between alignment, clarity and our inner voice — check it out and let me know what resonated with you!
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You Can’t Realign While You’re Beating Yourself Up
Sometimes clarity and alignment don’t come from action. They come from changing how you speak to yourself. This weekend reminded me of that.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My new post on Substack is about the relationship between alignment, clarity and our inner voice — check it out and let me know what resonated with you!
open.substack.com/pub/integrit...
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Last fall, I upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro so I could take advantage of the promised Apple Intelligence functions. But most of the major promised functions still have not come! And no prospect for them in the near future.
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Apple can't play on the sidelines in AI race, says Needham's Laura Martin
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July 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Last fall, I upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro so I could take advantage of the promised Apple Intelligence functions. But most of the major promised functions still have not come! And no prospect for them in the near future.
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Just got back from a walk along the beach, remembering how I used to visit this town and walk the same beach and dream of one day living here.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just got back from a walk along the beach, remembering how I used to visit this town and walk the same beach and dream of one day living here.
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I'm reading Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book, Original Sin, on Biden's decline and the ensuing coverup. This will go down as one of the greatest scandals in our country's history.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm reading Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book, Original Sin, on Biden's decline and the ensuing coverup. This will go down as one of the greatest scandals in our country's history.
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We know the termination of Stephen Colbert‘s show was linked to Paramount’s political calculations because if it was just about the financials, they would have waited longer to announce it, not right after he criticized their settlement with Trump.
Complete lack of integrity.
#integrityinsights
Complete lack of integrity.
#integrityinsights
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We know the termination of Stephen Colbert‘s show was linked to Paramount’s political calculations because if it was just about the financials, they would have waited longer to announce it, not right after he criticized their settlement with Trump.
Complete lack of integrity.
#integrityinsights
Complete lack of integrity.
#integrityinsights
Trump allowing Nvidia to sell AI chips to China is just further evidence of how no one knows how to slow this runaway train. It's an arms race between the major US AI companies and China, and everyone is just stepping on the gas. Full speed ahead!
#integrityinsights
#mixingmetaphors
#integrityinsights
#mixingmetaphors
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump allowing Nvidia to sell AI chips to China is just further evidence of how no one knows how to slow this runaway train. It's an arms race between the major US AI companies and China, and everyone is just stepping on the gas. Full speed ahead!
#integrityinsights
#mixingmetaphors
#integrityinsights
#mixingmetaphors
We live in a time when integrity on many levels is under assault.
It’s up to each of us to recommit to lives of integrity, to holding our companies and organizations to being places of integrity, to holding our elected leaders to being people of integrity.
#integrityinsights
It’s up to each of us to recommit to lives of integrity, to holding our companies and organizations to being places of integrity, to holding our elected leaders to being people of integrity.
#integrityinsights
July 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We live in a time when integrity on many levels is under assault.
It’s up to each of us to recommit to lives of integrity, to holding our companies and organizations to being places of integrity, to holding our elected leaders to being people of integrity.
#integrityinsights
It’s up to each of us to recommit to lives of integrity, to holding our companies and organizations to being places of integrity, to holding our elected leaders to being people of integrity.
#integrityinsights
I'm going to start sharing some daily musing, thoughts, reactions, feelings about a wider range of topics. Partly because I need a place to process some of it, partly to find kindred spirits wondering about the same things, and partly to connect with more people in general.
#integrityinsights 👇
#integrityinsights 👇
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm going to start sharing some daily musing, thoughts, reactions, feelings about a wider range of topics. Partly because I need a place to process some of it, partly to find kindred spirits wondering about the same things, and partly to connect with more people in general.
#integrityinsights 👇
#integrityinsights 👇
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Seems like every few months there’s a new study showing giving homeless people a small amount of money (instead of stealing their stuff and putting them in jail) results in them finding jobs and homes. We keep spending money on these studies rather than doing what they indicate will work.
Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer.
We choose cruelty.
We choose cruelty.
July 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Seems like every few months there’s a new study showing giving homeless people a small amount of money (instead of stealing their stuff and putting them in jail) results in them finding jobs and homes. We keep spending money on these studies rather than doing what they indicate will work.
Personal integrity matters tremendously.
So does the integrity of our system. We are seeing the erosion of that integrity on a daily basis.
So does the integrity of our system. We are seeing the erosion of that integrity on a daily basis.
This is one of those things which is not partisan politics. Messing with the distinction between military justice and civilian law enforcement is messing with the foundational structure of our constitutional order.
The Dangerous Plan to Turn Military Lawyers Into Immigration Judges
The U.S. military is not a civilian law enforcement agency.
www.thebulwark.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Personal integrity matters tremendously.
So does the integrity of our system. We are seeing the erosion of that integrity on a daily basis.
So does the integrity of our system. We are seeing the erosion of that integrity on a daily basis.
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"Questioning is the way of learning,"
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Questioning is the way of learning,"
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.