I have a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania…

Which means I spent one of the best years of my life studying with the world’s top researchers on happiness and what makes life worth living. (That was actually what we studied—and now that I know/ paid handsomely for all of the answers, I can’t hold them in. This shit’s too good to keep a secret.)
I’m now an Assistant Instructor in the master’s program. Woo hoo!

I’m a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from CTI and was a PCC with the ICF until I realized I didn’t want to coach anymore, so there’s that.

 
I am (*pushes glasses up nose*) an expert on the science and practice of living before we die.

I literally wrote the book on it! You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets made Adam Grant’s Summer Reading List, and has a bunch of glitzy endorsements (like Dan Pink, Dr. Laurie Santos, Arthur C. Brooks, Martha Beck … the list goes on.

It’s my full-time job to speak to corporations, associations, teams (and whomever’s sitting within earshot of me at dinner parties) on how to bust out of autopilot and live/ lead/ work with intention and aliveness. Keynotes, workshops … I speak to small teams on retreats all the way up to thousands stuffed into convention centers. We all need a reminder to wake up and live, and I’m the one to do it with gusto.