Welcome to Authenticity & Ambition, my new Substack publication. Thanks to an ask from my massage therapist, I recently started reading some of my essays on a Podcast and YouTube channel. I’m three weeks in and really enjoying it.
It’s a rainy day here near Stowe, Vermont, where I’m sitting in my cozy Airstream. Frank the dog is asleep on the bench next to me. Gus, the dog, is asleep on the floor under this table where I’m writing, getting blasted by the furnace heat. Abby, my wife, is asleep on the bed. While everyone is sleeping, I’m starting a Substack.
Why? Because I found something else cool on Substack, and it was the gateway.
To date, I have 85 published stories on Medium. The topics range from parenting to spirituality. It’s not until creating the podcast that I honed in on the theme of Authenticity & Ambition.
What I plan to do here on Substack is focus on an audience that wants to subscribe to this essay theme and get a behind-the-scenes look at why I’m writing what I’m writing about. It’s different from the essays that stand on their own in Medium, I think. We’ll see.
This Substack is me riffing. Those Mediums are my words, often edited, polished, and when I’m lucky, boosted. Here, you, the audience, are personally boosting me. That’s different.
I hope you enjoy it.
Originally published: 23 May 2025 on Substack.