This website is where I share my recent observations and thinking on becoming a better human as the groundwork for becoming a better anything.

I’m secretly obsessed with how we navigate and show up in our intimate relationships. It seems weird to focus on, but you’d be surprised how much light it sheds on how we show up everywhere else.

Cities AND PLACES that Made Me

• Tokyo, Texas, The Tri-state area: Where I’m from.

• Providence, Paris, Kyoto, Bali: Where I became a grown-up.

• Hokkaido: Where I’m writing from.

All of the places in between: Growing space.

More here, if you’re curious

Influences

Design: How we form experiences, how we make meaning from physical experience follows me everywhere I go. The design process informs my consulting work. 

Performance: I lean into the body and how it moves, tells stories, and keeps secrets. Performance plays into how I research/observe/analyze, and identify narrative.

Relational Intelligence: It fascinates me. Treating relationships as living, breathing, sentient, and staying curious to its changing needs. This allows both the relationship and the people in them to grow. What we believe about relationships, and how we show up and wield power in them will tell us a lot about visibility, connection, and power in the other parts of our lives.

Projects

Past: My first love is fashion. Clothing is an immediate and powerful tool of transformation. Miyake and Margiela are in my professional DNA. I helped launch the Margiela retail program. We used Japan to launch. It’s the best place in the world for executing new and weird things.

Present: Much of my work as a consultant and coach is an exploration in being human and restoring human response and factors back into our working relationships, environments, and culture. I nerd out on presence outside of our cultures of origin, Otherness, and in/visibility.

Near future: Taking what I’ve learned about identity, embodiment, beliefs, personal and systemic change, I’m in the design and planning stages to create a community and school for people to listen/unlearn, for deeper connection and empowered living.

I’m turned on By and tuned into

Language, body language, and the distinct personalities that emerge from language.

The food and languages from the places I’ve called home. I speak, cook, and eat Japanese, French, and American.

Meditations in various forms: Metta, Vipassana, walking, and Tinder.