I've spent a good part of my life trying to answer a question I didn't even realize I was asking.

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How do people become more themselves? And I'm not talking about better, shinier more productive versions of themselves. More... themselves.

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It's a question that has quietly followed me through every chapter of my life, although it showed up in different ways. At first it looked like performing as an actress & singer. Then it looked like writing, producing, and directing. Sometimes it arrived as teaching someone to sing, helping an author untangle a manuscript, working as an entrepreneur and/or with an entrepreneur on a new idea, or sitting across from someone in an intuitive session while they trusted me with the parts of themselves they had never shown anyone else.
 

For years I thought I had several different careers. Now I realize I've really only had one. I've simply been exploring the many ways people discover who they already are and find the courage to bring that person fully into the world.
 

Including me.

 

Becoming
 

Looking back, I can see that every chapter of my life was preparing me for the next one.

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I started playing on stage when I was six years old. Armed with two long braids and an unreasonable amount of confidence, I played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and immediately knew I'd found home.

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By the time I was ten, performing wasn't enough. I wanted to direct. Produce. Adapt plays & novels. Cast my friends. Convince adults to let me turn impossible ideas into real ones. You haven't truly lived until you've negotiated with your school principal to stage your own adaptation of Little Women in the gymnasium for the entire student body while simultaneously casting yourself as Jo March.

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Apparently, I've always liked wearing multiple hats.

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Throughout my teens I performed professionally whenever I could, eventually earning my Equity card after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. I toured Germany in a Broadway revue, followed that with Nunsense alongside the comedic genius of timing, Georgia Engel, and eventually found myself just as fascinated by what happened behind the curtain as what happened onstage.

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I didn't just want to tell stories. I wanted to build worlds.

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That desire led me into producing, directing, writing, coaching, teaching, publishing, and developing new work. Along the way I had the privilege of helping bring Schoolhouse Rock Live! to New York, where it became an Off-Broadway hit before finding its way into schools and theatres all over the world.

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It led me to create books, films, workshops, lectures, and now podcasts.
 

Each project looked completely different. Yet somehow they all felt remarkably familiar. I just didn't understand why.

 

The Plot Twist I Never Saw Coming

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While all of this creative work was unfolding, another story had been quietly running alongside it.

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For as long as I can remember, I noticed things that didn't seem to fit neatly inside the world everyone else agreed we lived in. As a child I could sense presences in rooms. I often knew when someone wasn't telling the truth. Information would simply arrive, without any logical explanation for how I could possibly know it.

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To be perfectly honest, I found this considerably less exciting than musical theatre. So I ignored it. For years.

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Then life, as it often does, arranged a series of experiences that became increasingly difficult to explain away. A dear friend gently suggested that perhaps I wasn't imagining any of it.

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Being curious & skeptical, I decided the only reasonable response was to test everything. Repeatedly. If something couldn't stand up to scrutiny, I wasn't interested.

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But after enough years of questioning, experimenting, and trying very hard to prove myself wrong, I reached a conclusion I hadn't expected. Something unusual was happening. Rather than blindly believing it, I became fascinated by understanding it.

 

That curiosity has now taken me on a decades-long exploration of intuition, consciousness, creativity, human potential, and the invisible threads that seem to connect all of them.

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What surprised me most wasn't that psychic phenomenon was real. It was realizing that creativity and intuition had always been asking the same thing of me.
 

Listen. Trust. Pay attention. Bring something invisible into form.
 

Whether that's a story, a performance, a piece of music, a business, a relationship, or a new version of yourself.

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The Thread That Connects Everything

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People sometimes look at my work and wonder how it all fits together.

Broadway. Books. Film. Menopause. Intuition. Podcasting. Speaking. Private sessions. Creative consulting.

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On the surface, it seems wonderfully random. To me, it's all one conversation. I've always been fascinated by hidden potential. The singer inside someone convinced they can't sing. The story inside a writer who can't find the ending. The confidence inside a performer. The wisdom inside uncertainty. The larger life quietly waiting beneath the one someone has settled for.

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Every project I create, every workshop I teach, every client I work with, and every story I tell is really exploring the same idea. What becomes possible when we stop second-guessing ourselves and begin trusting the deepest parts of who we already are?


 

An Intuitive Fiction Series

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For years people would ask me what I did, and I'd smile because there was never a short answer.
 

Then I created my current show Far From Crazy about a woman waking up one day and discovering she is now psychic . Suddenly, everything made sense. This world isn't just a podcast or a companion book. It's the first creative project where every part of my life finally shook hands.

Storytelling. Humor. Relationships. Creativity. The entertainment industry. Intuition. The invisible world. The very human messiness of trying to figure life out.

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It feels less like a departure from everything I've done and more like the place where all the roads finally meet.


 

What I've Become

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Over the years I've discovered that my work isn't really about intuition. Or creativity. Or performance. Those are simply the languages I happen to speak.

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What I really care about is helping people remember themselves. Everyone & everything I touch breathes from that place. It's just wrapped in different packages of love, laughter and a whole lot of wonder.

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One of my favorite moments came after my first national television appearance for my project, MenOpop. The book was represented by Rogers & Cowan, and I walked into the expected media debrief prepared to hear everything I should have done differently.

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Instead, the publicist looked at me and smiled, "Frankly, after watching you last night, there's nothing for us to tell you. You can sell anything."

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I still laugh whenever I think about it. Because what she was really seeing wasn't salesmanship. It was enthusiasm. I genuinely love making complicated things feel approachable, meaningful, and even a little magical.

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