820 - What’s The Next Aligned Move?

The past few weeks have been full.

Full of meaningful conversations, travel, family celebrations, coaching sessions, podcast commitments, and opportunities I deeply value.

After preparing for and speaking at Social Media Marketing World 2026, logging 116 meaningful connections, spending full days with friends and colleagues, traveling home, serving clients, celebrating McKenna’s graduation, attending a concert with my dad, and waking up to Mother’s Day with more family commitments ahead, I realized something important:

Even when life is full of good things, my nervous system still carries the weight of it all.

In this episode, I reflect on what happens when meaningful opportunities, family moments, business responsibilities, and disrupted routines all arrive at once.

The question that helped me move through the day was simple:

What’s the next aligned move?

Not the next ten moves.

Not the whole plan.

Just the next aligned move.

For me, that meant calling my mom. Then being present with family. Then recording this episode.

Sometimes life gives us a buffet of things we deeply value. Even then, we may not want all of it at once.

This episode is about honoring the fullness, noticing what my body and nervous system are carrying, and choosing the next aligned step.