A little of this and a little of that from an Alaskan gal who's been keeping it real since '75

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Why Your Next AI Tool Won’t Fix Your Real Problem

November 20, 2025

A potential client reached out asking for an AI agent. “Everyone’s doing AI,” they said. “We need to keep up.” I asked the question I always ask: “What problem are you actually trying to solve?” There was a pause. Then: “We can’t find anything. Documents are everywhere. It takes us hours to locate what we […]

What Happens When You Stop Trying to Fit In a Box

November 3, 2025

For years, I tried to be one thing. The corporate executive. The spiritual practitioner. The systems person. The creative. The strategist. The intuitive. Pick one, the internet said. Niche down. Be known for ONE thing. That’s how you build a successful business. So I tried. Man, did I try. And I was miserable. Because here’s […]

Never Quite Enough: Creating My Own Way in a Country That Doesn’t See Me

November 3, 2025

There’s a line I read recently that hit close to home: “Some days it feels as if I’m not Native enough for my own people because I use the tools we have been given, and never Western enough for the system that was built to destroy us.” ~Maija Katak Lukin That sentence held me still […]