This week is just a short little update from Miami, where my co-founder and I are having a kick-off bootcamp for our new startup. And you will get a dark chocolate review for Ghirardelli 86% Intense Dark.

Apologies for the shitty quality, I recorded this episode from my MacBook using my AirPods.

The UAL dark chocolate ranking so far:

* J.D. Gross 85% Mild

* Lindt 85% Extra Dark

* Lindt 90% Mild

* Lindt 85% Mild

* Vivani 71% Dark Chocolate

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In this episode, I talk about the subtle way THIS makes your life feel worse and your thinking less original, and how THIS quietly contributes to the slow death of reading, and what you lose when you stop immersing yourself in books.

And I review TWO new dark chocolates:

* J.D. Gross 85% Mild

* Vivani 71% Dark Chocolate

Listen to find out how they perform against the Lindt-trio from last week ;)

The UAL dark chocolate ranking so far:

* Lindt 85% Rich Dark

* Lindt 90% Mild “Edelbitter”

* Lindt 85% Mild “Edelbitter”

Thanks for listening! If this resonated or inspired you, leave a comment or share it to support my work <3

You can listen to this episode on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

I made the unreasonable decision to eat dark chocolate for breakfast and do a proper dark chocolate review.

I also share how I think people will come together online in the future, and why we’re moving toward micro-networks curated by humans instead of algorithms.

Dark chocolate ranking:

* Lindt 85% Rich Dark

* Lindt 90% Mild “Edelbitter”

* Lindt 85% Mild “Edelbitter”

Do you have a dark chocolate brand I should try? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for listening!

If this resonated or inspired you, leave a comment or share it to support my work <3

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In this episode, I unpack how I reshaped my relationship with money over the last 5–6 years, from shame, dependence, and hype-investing to seeing money as a tool for freedom, time, and peace of mind. I share the simplest habit you can start today to grow your wealth long-term, why your saving rate matters more than your income, and how wealth is more about psychology than spreadsheets. I also talk about letting money work for you without trading every hour for it, the mistakes I made along the way (hello, crypto hype 🙃), why women have been historically excluded from financial literacy, and how a few key books and conversations completely changed my mindset.

Books that helped me redefine my psychology of money:

* “The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness” by Morgan Housel

* “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki

* “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market” by Peter Lynch

* “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life“ by Alice Schroeder

Podcasts:

* Own it. The female finance podcast (German)

* Finance & Feelings (German)

What is your relationship with money? And how has it evolved? Drop a comment!

If you found this episode useful, share it with someone <3

I finished a really cool book called “The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer – The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb” and was fascinated by the partnership between General Groves and Dr. Oppenheimer. There are so many valuable lessons in it about management, hiring, and choosing the right kind of people for the right kind of job.

Last week, I also reflected a lot on the concept of comfortable stagnation and how it relates to aliveness. How aliveness is like a fluid source of energy, and if you’re not careful, that fluid can turn rigid when you stay too long in comfortable stagnation. It’s a reminder that there is a beginning, middle, and end to everything – a constant cycle of creation and dissolution. The impermanence that is.

Make sure to listen to episode #4 as well if you want to learn more about my friend Timothy.

Enjoy <3

I’m rebooting The Unreasonable Art of Living for the next six weeks, and I’m genuinely excited about it. Expect (again) a new episode every week, plus the occasional long-form reflection on Substack.

This week: why you shouldn’t be worried about AI, and why I believe it will actually help us rediscover what makes us human.

AI will keep getting better at rational, predictable work. Our job is to deepen the parts of being human that it can’t replicate: embodied intuition, emotional truth, and the courage to remain original.

Quote for you:

“Differentiation is survival and the world wants you to be typical. In what ways does the world pull at you and attempt to make you normal? How much work does it take for you to maintain your distinctiveness, to keep alive the things that make you special? We all know that distinctiveness, also known as originality, is valuable. We are taught to be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typical in 1000 ways. It pulls at you. Don’t let it happen. You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of Be Yourself is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t expect it to be easy or free. You’ll have to put energy into it continuously. To all of you and he just ends with excellent advice. Be kind, be original, create more than you consume, and never never, never let the universe smooth you into your surroundings. “ - Jeff Bezos

Like everything in life, there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end.

After over two years working on my lumii, the time has come to close this chapter.

This was not an easy episode to record, but I felt my lumii and all the people who walked with us deserved a final honoring of this incredible journey.

Whether you were an early customer, tester, newsletter reader, or simply someone who believed in what lumii stood for. Your support helped many people explore their emotions, find clarity, and walk through life with a little more ease & joy.

Thank you for being part of this story. The spirit of lumii, emotional growth, connection, and curiosity, will live on through all of you who believed in it.

Ok, back from New York.And today I want to share why New York is not the city that never sleeps (believe me, she gets a good night’s sleep).

I’ve been thinking about bringing the podcast back on a weekly basis, because honestly, some of my fondest memories are just sitting here and sharing something with you. So if you’re still here listening… wow. Thank you. You’re amazing.

This week I want to leave you with two questions:

* Have you ever really tuned into your intuition and followed it wholeheartedly?

* And do you believe in past lives, and the life after?

I’d love to hear from you.

Sending love, wherever you are right now.

ps. also a cool video on consciousness

Limiting beliefs are cunning - they often hide in plain sight.

They quietly shape how you see the world, and who you believe you are (or aren’t).

The environments you step into, and the people you surround yourself with, play a big role in creating and reinforcing these beliefs.

So let me ask you: what limiting beliefs are holding you back right now?

- GM

“There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.” —Steve, 2007