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Hi Friend,
I’m here to share something: You don’t have to choose a lane.
My friends used to call me “random” because I’d be consulting one minute, making creator content the next, then hosting a podcast, then getting excited about an entirely new idea. It could be my mild ADHD 🫠 or it could just mean, why not fully lean into all parts of me? For a long time I heard the comments like a critique — like I needed to pick just one thing. But I realized in thinking that way, I felt less seen and less like myself.
Now I hear it differently though. If you’re multi-hyphenate, multi-passionate, it’s worth letting yourself use all your gifts. Those “side quests” that you want to explore are a part of the richness in your life. You follow one thread, it leads to another, and suddenly your life is bigger than what you could’ve planned on paper.
What has happened when I’ve leaned into the multi-hyphenate part of my life:
✨ Spoke on a panel where I got to meet the Katie Couric!
✨ All expense paid trips to Hawaii and exclusive wellness resorts all around the country
✨ Consulting for some of the leading health experts and wellness brands
If you’ve been feeling pulled toward something new, whether that’s a small project, a class, a creative itch that won’t leave you alone, it’s not a distraction. It’s direction. That pull… it’s the voice inside yourself, your intuition and it’s your responsibility to listen to it.
At the end of the day, no one wants to live with regret or live with ‘should have’s’ and I find that the older I get, the more I lean more into this.
What is the thing that you’ve been itching to explore but haven’t quite done it yet? Reply to this email and let me know!
Rachel
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📖 Know
Researchers looking at workers found that people who had more roles/identities in life(not just “worker,” but also things like friend/partner/parent/community roles) reported lower psychological distress than people with just a single role — in one study, those with triple roles had notably lower distress than those with only one role.
Source: Wada K, et al. “The Impact of Multiple Roles on Psychological Distress among Japanese Workers.” Safety and Health at Work (2015). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4476194/
🌱 Begin
If you’ve been feeling pulled toward something new, don’t overthink it, take this audit. This audit (built on my favorite tool Notion) will take just a few minutes and you’ll walk away with clarity on what your side quest could actually look like in real life.
⛰️ Explore
What is a portfolio career and how can you think about structuring one in a way that supports your lifestyle, energy, and financial needs.
✨ Reflect
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” — Joseph Campbell
If I stopped trying to “pick a lane” for the next 30 days, what would I give myself permission to explore and what is the smallest first step I could take this week?
📍 Currently…
A curated collection of interesting articles, interviews, products that are currently on my radar.
✨ In a world where we’re constantly overstimulated, here are some simple ways to calm a dysregulated nervous system, including limiting notifications, taking quiet breaks, and giving your body more predictability. And try including a calming daily ritual like adding a warm drink or I’ve been loving this brand for the summer days, BrightLeaf Tea.
✨ Here are some (what I think are) unique ways to quiet the mental noise.
✨ If you’re cleaning up your skincare routine, this guide on avoiding endocrine disruptors in toiletries and cosmetics is a practical place to start. Here’s some clean skincare I’ve introduced over the years.
✨ If your home has been feeling like one more source of stimulation, this piece on how weighted blankets can support sleep and calm the nervous system is a helpful read. My Home collection has a few cozy, nervous-system-supportive picks.
✨ If your mind feels too loud to sort through on your own, try journaling with me in real-time guided video.
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