Where I've Been (Spoiler: I Wrote a Book)

It's been a minute. If you've noticed, the podcast has been sporadic at best for the first part of this year — and I want to explain what's been happening.

The short version: I was writing a book. Not the one I told you about last year, but a completely different one that grew out of my Word of the Year workbook and turned into fifty thousand words in about two months. You'll have to wait for the title — that's for another episode — but the cover is designed, the name is locked, and it's coming November 11th. I also get into the plot twist of my word of the year: Amplify didn't mean getting louder. It meant amplifying my ideas internally before I could put them out into the world.

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“I haven’t been this creatively excited in years — and now I’ve written an entire book in two months.”

— David Peck

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• Amplify didn't mean “post more” — it meant amplifying my ideas internally before I could put them out into the world.

• My Word of the Year workbook spiraled into a complete book — fifty thousand words in about two months.

• I wrote it by using my own methodology on myself: assemble, refine, try.

• I'm not revealing the name yet, but the date is locked — November 11.

• A word I choose to design my life always surprises me. The disconnect between the dictionary definition and how I live it is the most interesting part.

Transcript

• 0:00 — The cold open: Amplify did the opposite of what I expected

• 0:40 — It's been a minute: where the podcast went

• 1:30 — Bigger ideas percolating: the mastermind and the “messy middle”

• 4:30 — The realization: I was writing a completely different book

• 6:00 — 50,000 words, and using my own methodology on myself

• 7:30 — What the book actually is: memoir, self-help, how-to

• 8:45 — Cover designed, name locked, November 11

• 10:00 — Back to Amplify: amplifying internally before externally

• 12:00 — Why a word, not a resolution — and how it surprises you

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• 13:30 — Why I wrote it: the prescription I needed for the transitionem

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• 15:00 — What's next: more episodes, the reveal, save the date

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Know someone stuck in their own messy middle — between who they've been and who they're becoming? Send them this episode.

SAVE THE DATE!
11/11/2026

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Resources

• Luvvie Ajayi Jones’s The Book Academy 

• Macy Robison’s Thought Leader Architype Quiz

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