New Beginnings, New Name
2025 was a year of big changes, leading to new opportunities for me and for this newsletter
It’s been quite a while since I last wrote this Substack newsletter. The past two years have been the most challenging season of my life thus far, and because of the weight of what I’ve experienced, some things I love doing, including writing this newsletter, had to be set aside for a while.
A Season of Change and Growth
During this transition period of my life, I’ve invested even more time and energy in my personal growth. Perhaps that is the greatest purpose of grief and pain: to develop us into a higher level of consciousness. I’ve spent lots of time reflecting on who I am and my purpose. One thing is certain: I will continue doing the things I love so much including writing, speaking, coaching, and teaching.
The Genesis of This Newsletter
When I started this newsletter 6 years ago, it was born from a place of concern about the stress, anxiety, burnout, and frustration that I saw so many professionals experiencing at work. I felt a calling to write to a broader audience about the things I shared with clients during our coaching conversations. How can I help people be happier at work and in life and therefore become truly happy as part of their very essence? How can I help us shift the conversation around work to a future where the norm is fulfillment, creativity, and thriving?
A New Direction: Via Conscia
As I’ve reflected on the direction of this newsletter and my own work, I kept returning to how invested I am in the concept of “conscious leadership” and bringing more of it into the American workplace and our society’s relationship with work. So I decided to rebrand this newsletter from “Work Happy, Live Happy, BE Happy,” to something that better captures my vision for what work could be: Via Conscia.
Via Conscia
Via Conscia (pronounced VEE-ah kon-CHEE-ah) means “the conscious way” in Latin. It succinctly and eloquently captures my mission: to help leaders and professionals discover and create the conscious way to a better way of working and relating. And it perfectly describes the message I seek to share with overwhelmed professionals and leaders who want to create a different way of doing business: together, we can create the conscious way.
What I Mean by “Conscious”
As I’ve described in a previous newsletter, “conscious” has many definitions that are pertinent to the changes we need to experience in modern work life and society.
We need to be aware of and acknowledge the fundamental challenges in the current way we work and relate that aren’t serving us.
We need to be concerned about how our current systems and ways of relating aren’t always conducive to human thriving.
And we need to be intentional and make a choice to create a way to work and relate that helps us move from survival mode at work and in life.
What You Can Expect Moving Forward
This newsletter will continue to share practical ways we can grow in order to build a workplace conducive to everyone thriving. It will also explore ideas about what the future of work could look like when we commit to the conscious way. I’ll focus more on incorporating the latest research in neuroscience and consciousness and its practical application to transform how we work and engage with each other.
Too many of us are stuck in survival mode—exhausted, uninspired, and yearning for something more meaningful in our work and lives. Drawing on breakthroughs in consciousness, neuroscience, and quantum physics, this newsletter will explore how to harness the power of mind, heart, and energy coherence to redefine success—and create a future where work becomes a source of vitality, meaning, and inspired possibility.
There are so many exciting discoveries in these scientific fields that can truly help us elevate our understanding of what it means to be human and live and work in a way that provides greater purpose and fulfillment.
This isn’t just theory; it’s practical. I’ll share concrete ways you and your team can elevate your performance to increase team coherence. That means less stress, miscommunication, and misalignment that holds your team back. And increased creativity, intuition, and coherence that leads to greater levels of alignment and success.
I look forward to connecting with all of you through this newsletter more regularly, and I invite you to share with me topics you’d like to see covered.
Pursuing Via Conscia,
Meredith
Too many of us are stuck in survival mode—exhausted, uninspired, and yearning for something more meaningful in our work and lives. Drawing on breakthroughs in consciousness, neuroscience, and quantum physics, this newsletter explores how to harness the power of mind, heart, and energy coherence to redefine success and create a future where work becomes a source of vitality, meaning, and inspired possibility.
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.
Contact her to develop your conscious leadership and transform your organization into the workplace of the future.
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