Meraki is a word from the Greek that roughly translates to that feeling of soul, love or creativity you put into something; it’s your essence. I’ve spent my entire life trying to get to that essence. to be able to feel it. and touch it. and live it.

From therapy and 12 step to seemingly every possible self help workshop and book, I’ve been a traveler on this path for decades. The journey has included working in radio and television commercials, becoming a playboy bunny and underage exploits with a well-known television actor. It’s traversed the journey from sexual abuse and divorce to parenting and marrying someone of the same gender. It’s gone from building a multi-million dollar handbag design business to having to put groceries back on the shelf because I didn’t have enough money.

What I’ve finally come to recognize is that this path that we’re on, this life journey that we chose this time around is about remembering who we truly are. It’s about getting back to that essence and living from that place - living with Meraki.

Living withMeraki is about being in the flow. It’s about living from that tuned in, turned on, dropped in place. It’s about plugging in to Source and letting the current power us.

Living withMeraki is something we’ve touched on at times in our lives and when we did everything just felt right. There was a knowing. A confidence. A joy.

Living withMeraki is a practice of coming back again and again to that place of presence - of being so completely in the moment that everything else falls away. We’re not in future worry or past regret. We are just. Here. Now.

When we live from this place of connection to our soul, love and creativity, we do have all the answers (just like our kids accuse us of!) We have everything we need. We always did but in these moments, we know it.

Living withMeraki is about remembering our birthright. It’s about remembering where and what we came from. It’s about our soul path. It’s about the love that we are and it’s about living with that spontaneous spark of creativity that lets us feel truly alive. Every single day. Every single moment. In every single relationship that we possibly can!

This journey has certainly been rich and varied and I’m so incredibly grateful for it. I’m here to share a bit about my experience in the hopes that it might serve to benefit you as well. I’m no expert. On anything. But I’ve learned a lot along the way.

In this podcast, I’ll be in dialogue with others who are also living withMeraki - with a connection to their soul, love and creativity. May you be inspired. May you recognize the refections that you find here. May you know the joy that is living from this place of remembering who you truly are.