Simone Adams took a hard look at everything she was running toward – and walked the other direction. In this week's feature article, we dive into my conversation with Simone, founder of Color My Outdoors, who left a 60-hour work week in Atlanta, challenged herself to live on $30 a day, and moved to a town of 1,600 people to answer one question: who am I when I take away everything I thought I needed?

Three patterns from Simone's story might inspire you to rethink things in your own life: how the hustle gets inherited and disguised as ambition, what radical subtraction reveals about who you've really been living for, and why giving yourself a blank canvas is the scariest and most necessary move you'll ever make.

Find out what Simone discovered on the other side of letting go.

In this week's feature article I unpack my conversation with Dr. Karmetria Burton, senior leader at McDonald's, founder of the Paint Your Lips Red Foundation, and author of "Never Wear Red Lipstick" – to explore what happens when you finally see the rules that have been running your life without permission.

Read the full article to understand why leadership starts where you're standing, and what shifts when you stop organizing your life around patterns that were never actually yours.

Lisane Basquiat sits down with Shavone Charles — cultural strategist, musician, and founder of Future of Creatives — to unpack why confidence isn't borrowed from the room, how survival mode keeps us isolated, and why leaving what no longer fits is the only way forward.

In this week’s feature article, I sit down with Brittany Williams to talk about what happens when you stop waiting for perfect conditions and start working with the life you actually have.

Brittany breaks down why strength is built in the 10 minutes you can manage, not the hour you keep postponing. From breathwork in the bathroom to Plan C becoming the real plan, her story reframes fitness, identity, and self-trust in a way that feels grounded, honest, and livable.

In this week's feature article, I explore what happened when Ingrid Best decided her teen motherhood, college dropout status, and 12-year manager plateau weren't setbacks but preparation. From answering a Craigslist ad (thinking "spirits" meant tarot cards) to building a global wine brand in two years, her story reveals why the people changing industries aren't the ones with perfect resumes. They're the ones who turned every closed door into curriculum.

Read the full article to discover why your detours are your real credentials, what actually happens when you stop waiting for the "right" path to appear, and why completing old conversations with your younger self unlocks your future (hint: perfection was never the point).