Letters from Bali

The Week I Stopped Apologising for the Price

For years I named a price and then buried it under explanation. A letter on what actually sits underneath a handmade number, what a nervous discount teaches, and the practice of saying it plainly a...

Where to Buy Handmade Women's Clothing: A Buyer's Guide

Slow Fashion · Buyer's Guide · Handmade Where to Buy Handmade Women's Clothing The best places to buy handmade women's clothing are brands that can name who made your pi...

How Myrah Penaloza's Human Design Paved Her Creative Path Forward

Brand Story · Founders · Human Design How Myrah Penaloza's Human Design Paved Her Creative Path Forward People ask what I do and I have never had a short answer. A&R ...

The Venus Sequence, Explained: The Six Spheres That Map How You Love

The Venus Sequence is the second journey of the Gene Keys Golden Path: six spheres that map how you attract, think, feel and love, ending at the Core Wound. What each sphere holds, the order to wal...

The Activation Sequence: The Four Gene Keys That Come First, and the One You Will Want to Skip

The Activation Sequence is the first of the three Gene Keys sequences: Life's Work, Evolution, Radiance and Purpose. What each sphere means, which one to contemplate first, and why almost nobody st...

The Year I Did Everything Right and Felt Worse: Postpartum Hypothyroidism, and the Day I Started Doing Less

Hot yoga three times a week. Sauna. Cold plunges. I thought I was taking care of myself and I was getting more exhausted every month. Part one of eight on managing hypothyroidism as a founder, a mo...

Naming Your Shadow: How We Use the Gene Keys to Make Decisions as a Couple

Her shadow is withdrawing. His is overcomplicating. Naming them out loud changed how we make decisions in a marriage and a company. The honest version, including what the system cannot do.

What Are the Gene Keys? And How Two of Us Divided a Company With Them

Gene Keys explained in plain language, plus what happened when we read ours side by side. One of us came out the Remembering Woman. The other came out the Teacher. We divided the company along that...

Emotional Authority and the Art of Not Deciding Today

Roughly half of all Human Design charts carry Emotional Authority, which says there is no truth in the now. What that looks like in a wardrobe, a business and a life built on waiting.

How We Run a Business on Two Different Human Design Types

I am a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority. My husband is a Generator with Sacral Authority. One of us cannot decide today and the other decides instantly. Here is how we built a company...