Happy 3-Year Anniversary! 🥂🎉
Celebrating 3 years of this Substack newsletter
This is a special edition of the newsletter! While it’s typically sent on Tuesdays, this week I wanted to send it on the third anniversary of its launch, March 10, 2020. Thank you for being a faithful reader and supporter!
Do you remember where you were three years ago this week? Safe to say all of us remember those harrowing days as the world around us shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
My husband and I have a particularly keen memory of this time: we got married on March 16, 2020. After waiting an agonizing year in the immigration process, Victor had finally arrived to the U.S. on a fiancé visa. We had to be legally married within 90 days so he could stay in the country. Everything was closing in Austin, where we live.
So we booked a flight to Las Vegas and basically eloped at the Chapel of the Flowers on the Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas shut down the day after our wedding. The Strip was deserted and looked like something from a post-apocalyptic movie. We flew home on a nearly empty plane and spent our “honeymoon” and the ensuing months hunkered down at home.
On March 10, 2020—just a week before we got married—I started writing this Substack newsletter. My initial goal was to help people make the transition from working in an office to remote work. Having worked remotely for over a decade, I wanted to help others figure out the best way to work at home, even amidst surreal circumstances.
The newsletter then evolved into a weekly missive focused on my passion: helping people work, live, and BE happy. As a coach who works with professionals from across the nonprofit, government, and business worlds, I’d seen so much unhappiness and stress in the modern workplace that I felt needed to be addressed. I cover future-of-work trends, how to be a conscious leader, and how to build a strong team—all of which center around the theme of working, living, and BE-ing happy.
My goal for this newsletter remains the same: help people work, live, and BE happy. But I also want to expand the scope of this conversation. We’re moving through major global transitions right now. The way we work and live are shifting significantly. As we transition from one age to the next, we have a huge opportunity to recreate what work, life, and happiness mean to each of us.
I firmly believe that when we focus on BE-ing who we’re meant to be, and making the workplace more conscious, it will result in us living a life of greater fulfillment and happiness. All three are interconnected and all three are what I help my coaching clients with.
My vision is a future where we can all thrive in work and life. And the two don’t have to be at odds. In fact, work can be a meaningful and enriching experience, not a place of constant stress.
Looking ahead, I’ll continue to write about the topics I’ve covered in the past. But I also want to focus on finding new ways to create work, life, and personal happiness. I’m curious what you, my readers, think.
If you could recreate how we work, how we live, and how we develop ourselves, in a way that each one complements the others, how would you do it?
Thank you for your support for the past three years! I look forward to expanding this conversation. Because together, we can help transform the workplace and create an environment where we can all work, live, and BE happy.
Work happy. Live happy. BE happy.
Meredith
The way we work and build teams is rapidly changing. Leaders often feel unprepared to navigate the transition. As a conscious leadership coach, consultant, and communicator, Meredith helps leaders and their teams create new ways of working and relating so they can prepare for the future by consciously co-creating it.
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