A chronos question is “what time is it?”
A kairos question is “what time am I in?”
— from Between Stories
— from Between Stories
About This Work
What if this isn't a problem to solve, but a threshold to cross?
Work is changing — and so is the wider world around it. The conditions many of us prepared for no longer quite match the ones we now face. For some, the next step is a different kind of work altogether. For others, it's reshaping what they already do so it fits them better. For still others, it's weaving a career together with other callings — writing, teaching, building, creating, things that don't yet have names.
There is no single right path. But there are questions worth asking, possibilities worth imagining, and ways to think about what's next that go beyond the narrow set of options most of us were taught to see.
This work is, in large part, an invitation to imagine more honestly. To listen to what has been quietly calling. To consider what becomes possible when we stop performing a role that has stopped fitting — and trust the deeper thread that has been there all along.
A Quieter Question
Often, the path forward is not entirely forward. It is also a return.
To the thing you used to do for hours as a child without knowing it was a thing. To the questions you asked before you learned which questions were acceptable to ask. To the practice you loved before the world told you it would never pay the bills.
The work of finding what is truly yours often runs through what was always yours — the curiosity, the obsession, the strange particular thing you cared about when no one was watching.
Part of this work is excavating that thread. Not as nostalgia, but as evidence. The places we were most alive before the world shaped us tell us something important about where we might come alive again.
I work with people who sense there may be more for them, and haven't quite found the words for it yet. My own path has wound through caregiving, building, and creative work — so I know from the inside how tangled the question of what's next can get.
How We Work Together
At the heart of it is a conversation — one to one, fully focused on where you are and what wants to happen next: your career, a creative project you've been circling, or the wider question of what else might be possible. At your pace, with no answer required before you're ready.
And sometimes a conversation opens into wanting to make something real — a project you can finally see clearly, a body of work, something you couldn't quite name before. When it does, we can bring it into being together. Or, if you'd rather hold the tools yourself, I can teach you to make it — one patient step at a time.
For a glimpse of what imagining something new can become, the Dearly Beloved Project is one of mine →
Need a website or an app built, plain and simple? I do that too — over at Zimbug →
The shift, up close
Much of what you've been sensing has a name, even if it hasn't fully surfaced: AI is reshaping the ground under nearly every kind of work. You don't have to love it, or fear it, to want to understand it — and to decide, on your own terms, how it belongs in your work and your life.
So I offer this, too, plainly: help making sense of AI, and learning to use it well.
Thinking through what AI actually means for your work, your business, or a particular project — without the hype, and without the doom.
Learning how these tools really work, and how to use them well, from wherever you're starting. No background assumed.
Sitting down and actually doing it — the practical steps to make something, or to fold AI into what you already do.
Is This You?
You may have felt something shifting — in the work, in the world, in yourself — without quite being able to name it. That sense is real; it isn't your imagination. And imagination, as it happens, is exactly how you begin to make sense of it.
None of these are signs that something is wrong.
They're signs that you're paying attention.
What's Possible
Some reshape the work they already have. Some weave what they do together with something else — writing, teaching, building, work that doesn't have a name yet. Some change course entirely. The point was never the destination. It's that the choice becomes a choice, instead of a drift.
Also — the writing
Alongside the one-to-one work, I've written two books about mental health and a landscape in change — one about what's arriving, one about what was quietly set aside.
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A Few Honest Answers
Often it's the opposite. The riskiest thing is staying welded to a path out of habit rather than choice. Nothing here asks you to ignore your finances or to leap without a runway. Meaning and a realistic living are not enemies.
Then that is where this starts. Most people arrive with the itch, not the answer. Finding the direction is the work, not the prerequisite for it.
No. This is a conversation, not a program — a lens rather than a set of instructions. The point is to help you think clearly enough to determine what's right for you. The goal is your own discernment, not dependence on mine.
Not at all. Plenty of people stay right where they are and reshape the work from the inside. The question isn't necessarily about leaving — it's about clarity, alignment, and sustainability. An entrance ramp, not an exit ramp.
Burnout is a common starting point, not a disqualifier. You're exactly who this is for — the exhaustion you're carrying is not a personal failing, and it often has as much to do with the shape of the work as with you. That's a good place to begin.
Friends aren't neutral. Career sites give everyone the same advice. This comes from someone who saw the shift in work coming a decade and a half early and has thought about little else since — shaped to the specific position you're standing in, not to everyone.
— by request —
If something here has resonated, tell me a little about where you are — where you feel stuck, what's stirring, or what you're hoping to make. If it feels like a fit, I'll be in touch, and we'll find a time. No live calendar to wrestle with.
Prefer to simply write? hello@kairosmind.org