“I can’t do that hear” - I hear it in different forms from brilliant people who feel stuck. I think of the subject matter expert who became a global leader in a different field, the leader who changed their relationship with a bullying boss, and the transformation specialist who stopped asking what everyone else wanted from them and began asking what they wanted to make possible..”

“What makes someone give their evenings, weekends, energy, reputation, and sometimes even their health to something they believe in?

Because when I look back across my own life, the things that mattered most were never driven by motivation alone.

They were driven by conviction.”.

“We’re good at expressing positions and staging disagreement, but far less effective at turning complexity into something that actually shifts.

And that matters - because the gap between voice and consequence is widening. We confuse visibility with effectiveness, and debate with progress.

The deeper question it leaves me with is this: if our political and public systems aren’t generating real agency, true forums for working through complexity, or sustained movement - then what are they actually doing?

Perhaps the 7th of May provides an opportunity to ‘lean’ into this”.