This year has felt unexpectedly quiet. Not in a way that feels wrong, but in a way that has made me pause. I usually come into January with a lot of momentum and urgency around the work I’m doing. This January has been different. I’ve been moving more slowly, and I’ve been trying to understand whether that slowness is coming from exhaustion after a very full year, or from something deeper... For most of my life as a founder, I’ve been driven by a very specific kind of fire. It came from being...

January always arrives with a lot of opinions. Reset your routine. Fix what’s broken. Decide who you’re going to be this year! And yet, every January, I notice the same thing, both as a parent and as someone who has spent years watching children settle back into care after the holidays. What families are actually craving isn’t a fresh start. It isn’t reinvention. It’s rhythm. The holidays are magical. They’re also disruptive in ways we don’t always name until January shows up and everything...

I was asked a simple question recently: What is the hardest, most stressful part of this season for you right now?