Welcome.
This Substack is where I write sometimes funny life & travel mishaps and observations about what makes life and people so cool. And interesting. And sometimes weird. THERE ARE STORIES.
It took me a mere 17 months on Substack to figure out that the above is what I write. I’ve been like a teenager going through life phases here. If you scroll back a ways, you’ll find my advice phase, my pickleball phase (I wrote several articles for another Substack I’ve since retired), my “Memo” phase…
Thankfully, I’ve finally settled into what I really write about here. So what we have here is a veritable cornucopia of things: scary animals, bad names, travel mishaps, unwelcome encouragement, Dateline close-calls, funny prayers, corporate idiosyncrasies, overanalyzing, bad dates, my foibles. Those sorts of things. Sometimes I’m accidentally insightful, but that’s only here and there.
Some background on me:
(Before and during the Substack phases described above): I used to be a cushy corporate person with a cushy gig in tech. It was my third distinctly different career, and one that allowed me to think I’d “made it.” But I heard the call of the wild and when it got really loud, I left to explore, build a business, and see what this whole life thing is about when you give up certainty.
I worked on my business as I wandered my way around Europe looking for places that seemed historically important (read: everywhere) and where I might get warm (it was winter). Below is proof of me NOT being warm somewhere in the middle of Greece in February 2023.
Going into this chapter of change, I’d done what experts recommend for really committing yourself: I sold my house. This is akin to burning the boat so you literally can’t get home. While I could technically get home to the US, I didn’t have an actual house to get to, so I kept traveling.
And talking with strangers.
And writing. And thinking about all the things I actually wanted to write. Then I’d write what I thought I should, but I don’t do that anymore. I also don’t travel full-time anymore, and am at home again/for now in the West, happily writing to you from MY VERY OWN DESK. It’s the small things…
Oh yeah! Also in this travel chapter, I published a book (Dear Fellow Spender), and started another one (Dear Fellow Dreamer) which will be published Fall 2025. Professionally, I continue to offer financial coaching for individuals, and speaking and workshops for organizations. It’s all a very fun combination.
What happens at MTYL:
Free subscribers to my Substack get one post per week. On Tuesdays. I can’t remember why I picked Tuesdays, but it’s as valid a day as any other day of the week.
Paid subscribers to my Substack also get the weekly post, but for just $5/month you also get to feel really good about yourself for supporting my work before I become VERY famous. You get random surprises, like the occasional (audio) behind-the-scenes and whatever else I think of to delight you.
If your inbox and life could use more stories and more of what I’ve described here, the button below will tell you what to do. We obviously share an interest in life and people, and finding what’s cool, funny, and interesting about all of it, so I’m tickled we’ve found each other.
