Be the dance you wish to see in the world …

Have you decided that today will be a good day for you? How old do you want to turn before your last breath? Some call this our lifespan. What about your health-span? Wealth-span? Whether you retire or not, how will you refire your last decades to keep growing, to keep playing the roles entrusted to you? To keep making a contribution. How will you craft meaningful days, from today until your last ecstatic breath at the age of, say, 123 years of age?

Inspire. Ignite. Grow. These are a few of my favourite verbs, along with words like create, chaos, work, tears, action, adventure, joy, laughter, beauty, conversation, think, learn, structure, believe, experience and flow. Words flow from a river of appreciation.

Whether I coach business or NPO ventures to an authentic voice, through startup, life leadership and major new chapters in their stories, deliver a keynote address with ukulele and djembe, or write, publish and perform stories and songs, I love to inspire and ignite self-leadership, in me as well as in you. It is then that we grow as the autonomous, self-empowered individuals we were born to be.

DJ Opperman wrote ‘The greatest joy on earth flows from the trinity of food, drink and conversation,’ to which I add, ‘in concert with storytelling, music and joy of tears.’

What ‘generation’ do you think you belong to? Baby Boomer? Gen X? Millennial? Gen Z? Generation Alpha? WTF (Woeful Trite Falsity)! You are invited to join us … The Perennials. Waking up, growing up, and showing up to our calling, ’til our very last breath. Every single one of us can co-create a life, including relationships and work, that we won’t want to retire from, whether for a week-end, holidays, or decades after a certain ‘retirement’ age. Perennials keep refiring, changing, growing, being the dance we wish to see in the world …