Hello my friends! How ARE you all? Back in the studio today and it feels spectacular! 

We also had an incredible LIVE this morning on LINKEDIN, in my WOMen WHo lead community, where we talked all about what I call the confidence myth. 

And I want to dedicate this episode to all the women who show up every Friday morning at 8 am central to be part of a community that helps to empower women to step FULLY into their power in their lives and leadership - you should join us! 

So. I’ve promised to share with you all some more intimate journey’s I’ve had inside the McKittrick And today is the day my friends! I love talking about this more than I love talking about anything else in the world!

This experience that I have been to 49 times in the last 9 years has fundamentally changed me as a human, a woman, a leader, a friend, a mother, and a wife. It has caused me to call into question my entire reality and what’s actually possible in this world.

So let me tell you a story. My story. From the first time I went...

It was way back in August of 2012. I left my 9th-floor office on 31st street and 8th avenue, right across from the huge Macy’s in Herald square.

I decided to walk, because getting a cab on a Friday night in the city is next to impossible, and even though it was August, it was a nice night to be outside. 

The walk was only 20 minutes down to 27th street between 9th and 10th Avenue in Chelsea. I met my friend, we got in line and a large man all in black looked at our ID, and stamped our hands.

I was excited and nervous and just wanted to be inside already, inside this place they call "Sleep No More".

It was my turn that week to figure out what we were going to do that Thursday night. Something that wasn’t a bar or a restaurant. Something that was fun and different. So I researched!

As we stood in line, outside against the brick building,  I thought I had a pretty good idea of what the night had in store. I assumed, from the online descriptions at the time, that this “show” was sort of an "art" installation, where we got to walk around and view contained "scenes" with live actors,  all while drinking cocktails and discussing the "experience". 

I thought it was going to be different and entertaining, a perfectly cultured August evening in NYC. I had no idea that it would change my life. 

Sleep No More is what they call “immersive theatre. It’s a kind of theater that’s more like an experience. Where you are part of the show. 

The storyline is based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, with layers of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, the true story of The Paisley Witch Trials of 1696, and a strong dose of the history of King James and Queene Anne all woven together in this dream-like intensity.

The Sleep No More “experience” is set in 1939 in  a 5 story 100 room hotel of sorts, they call “The McKittrick”, replete with a  ballroom. A graveyard, a street filled with shops, a detective agency, it has the Macbeths and Macduff’s living quarters, 3 speakeasies and so much more. 

 You experience the “show” by exploring, opening doors and drawers, rifling through books, by watching the actors play out their stories through dance and sometimes, if you’re lucky, interacting with them.. If you see an actor that interests you, follow them, even if it means running upstairs two at a time! 

My friend and I entered after they opened the big front door, we checked out coats in the long dark hallway.

We walked up to the hotel check-in window and got a playing card, like from a deck of cards. We were directed to a dark stairway, stopping first to get our cards punched.

We climb the steep, dark stairs and enter a candlelit maze and I have to keep my hands out to touch the walls so I can keep my balance? 

The maze lets out into the ante room of a bustling speakeasy,