Takeaways

• Mid-year usually turns into a scoreboard of everything you didn't get done. Sandy makes the case for a different lens: look back with grace and celebration first, then honor what didn't go the way you planned, without attaching guilt to any of it.
• The FLOW framework gets a fresh, practical mid-year application: Fuel (what's actually giving you energy, and what needs to come off the table), Leverage (where you need to ask for help or better use your team), Open (the "utopia question," a way to stretch your thinking past what feels realistic), and Weave (how all of it comes together into a life with more ease and less to prove).
• Two simple practices carry the episode: the "iridescent shield," a mental image for letting tough people and tough moments bounce off you instead of landing, and the belief that everyone ...