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To Whom Do You Belong

May 17, 2018January 15, 2020

  It was 1986. The aroma of my mother’s biryani, a chicken rice dish spiced with masala, greeted me as I returned home from my day of classes at the …

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What are you Searching For?

April 14, 2015April 13, 2015

What is your community? Is it your work? Perhaps the people who share your co-working space? Is it your family because they are where you feel most loved? Perhaps its …

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Your Outer World Changes as Your Inner World Does

April 9, 2015April 8, 2015

In recent weeks, we’ve been chatting with Ruthie Ackerman about how she finds her allies, her community. The first post discusses how once Ruthie claimed her passions as her own, …

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Losing Some Friends as You Find New Ones (Part II of Finding Your Allies)

March 17, 2015

Last week, Ruthie Ackerman’s had a question that led her to find a new community. In Part II, why Finding Your Allies sometimes means Losing Your Friends … … all …

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Turning Your Question Into Your Quest (Part I of Finding Your Allies)

March 10, 2015March 9, 2015

Once you’ve “claimed your weird” as we’ve just discussed in our last series on How to Find Your Onlyness, it’s possible to feel all alone. The story of Ruth Ackerman …

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And The Hint Goes To….

February 28, 2015February 27, 2015

Last week, we recapped the recent conversation that’s been taking place about finding your Onlyness and introduced an exciting giveaway from Hint. So many of you have piped in — …

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Intersections of Compassion

February 17, 2015February 18, 2015

In recent weeks, we’ve been exploring a question that many of us grapple with: How do I actually go about finding my purpose, my meaning .. My Onlyness? Understanding why …

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And the Mophies Go To…

January 26, 2015

The funny thing about onlyness is that, to get there, most of us need inspiration from and conversation with our communities. Whether it’s yoga classmates, a religious organization, a book …

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vigilante justice?

September 19, 2014September 19, 2014

I wrote a new Time Inc Op-Ed (sharing below) on the NFL and Goodell because it’s so clear that if an organization’s leadership is found by the online community to …

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