How to stop waiting for the perfect moment - and show up anyway. Mental fitness, self-love, and what imperfect action actually looks like in real life.

I just got back from Japan. I have the flu. My luggage - including my microphone and my concealer - is somewhere between Tokyo and my front door. This is not the episode I planned to make.

Last week's three-part ketamine series brought in new listeners and I had been so ready to show up and deliver something extraordinary for them. And then JFK happened. And Manila happened. And the flu happened. And I lay in bed catastrophizing - while being completely aware of the irony. The woman who teaches you to embrace imperfect action, lying in bed, devastated about not being able to be perfect.

Very funny. In hindsight.

This episode is about the gap between knowing something and actually doing it. That gap is where the real work lives. It's about what it looks like to practice imperfect action when you're the one who has to do it - not as a concept, but as a real choice, on a hard day, with no equipment, full of flu.

It's also about wabi-sabi - a Japanese philosophy I kept thinking about in Japan. The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things in everyday life. Not beauty despite the imperfection. Beauty because of it.

In this episode you'll discover:

 •  Why showing up imperfectly is still showing up - and why it sometimes matters more

 •  What the E in the LOVE Framework actually looks like when you’re the one who has to do it

 •  The difference between panicking and failing

 •  Wabi-sabi - the Japanese philosophy of finding beauty in imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things

 •  The question I’d like you to sit with this week

 This is an inside job. It always is.

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