Sublime

When you represent knowledge, opportunity, selflessness, and intimacy, you are not just a service provider or a product. You are fun, you are interesting, you are valuable; you take people places they have never been before, you show them books they have never heard of, you introduce them to people they never dreamed they would meet—in short, you a

I was accepting insurance to satisfy my clients, but it paid less than my normal hourly rate, the paperwork was astronomical, and it was a constant battle just to get paid.” Then, during the class, she saw the light. “I realized that most of my life I did what people wanted me to do. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be seen as somebody nice.” She

And that’s the stride—the life cycle of talent and return that I’ve been angling for my whole working life. I want the “privilege of a lifetime,” as Joseph Campbell called it, “of being myself.”