“Funny how we have to come all the way out here to meet.”

That’s what my friend, Jack, says as we sit down for breakfast on a beautiful, sunny morning at an outdoor cafe across from the ocean.

His observation is one that we’ve all heard a hundred times in conferences around the world. It never gets old to hear this self-owning joke because it’s so true and so strange. But no one goes past the observation to break down why we meet out here more often and what that means.

This time I observed, and now I know…This is my story on why we let our guards down on the road, and what happens when we do.

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