Teach
What 15,000 Classes Taught Me About Teaching
Fifteen thousand classes in, I've learned that the craft is about far more than the bike — it's energy, emotion, presence, communication and storytelling.
Full essay · In progressI write to share, question and understand.
I write about things I've experienced, things I've noticed, things I'm questioning, and things I'm still trying to understand. Sometimes that's performance, teaching or business. Sometimes technology, communication or behavior. And sometimes it's simply about being human.
Some pieces come from years of experience. Others begin with a question I don't have an answer to yet. Both belong here.
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I don’t pay myself “yet”
Owners pay themselves last — or not at all — and call it commitment. But “yet” has a habit of quietly becoming never. What needs to change before it does?
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What I'm working on
Pieces I'm writing, researching or thinking my way through.
Build
Reflecting on the Boutique Fitness Space
Observations on where boutique fitness is heading and what builders are learning.
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Reflective Moments
Things I needed to write down.
Personal reflections on things I've lived through, struggled with, rediscovered or simply felt. I share them because some of what we experience alone isn't ours alone. Someone may relate. Someone may not. But sometimes finding your own feelings in someone else's words can make them feel a little less solitary.
Shoe size
This is where writing started for me...
Bellend
How things started beautifully and simply ended.
Reflections on heartbreak, endings, and what remains when something you thought would last doesn't.
In progressIt's Not You, It's Me
On overcoming a lack of self-worth and doing the work on self.
Reflections on looking inward rather than outward — and beginning to understand the parts of yourself that shaped how you loved, needed and related to other people.
In progressRe-Curious
Rediscovering beauty in nature, the world, people and love.
Reflections on becoming curious again — noticing what is beautiful, allowing people and the world back in, and rediscovering the possibility of love.
In progressThe Relief of Dying
On living now, because tomorrow you may not have.
Reflections on mortality and the strange freedom that can come from remembering that none of this lasts forever.
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What I keep writing about.
Most of what I write seems to find its way back to one or more of these.
Reflect
Relationships, identity, failure, healing, rediscovery and being human.
Perform
Sport, health, coaching and what helps people perform.
Communicate
Language, teaching, relationships, influence and understanding each other.
Build
Founders, entrepreneurship, operating businesses and turning ideas into something that works.
Teach
The craft of teaching, learning, coaching and developing others.
Explore
Technology, AI, data, behavioral economics and the questions I'm still trying to understand.
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New writing, sent occasionally.
Essays, articles and Reflective Moments as they're published. Nothing else.