Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 January brings pressure. Pressure to set the goals.Pressure to launch them and do better than last year.Pressure to declare them publicly—and stick to them. If you’re not crystal clear yet, it can feel like you’re already behind. And, even if you are clear, that behind feeling persists. [I saw the most amazing vision board this week! Eeek. Mine is not complete.] I believe the goal-getting process is widely misunderstood. We’ve been taught that...
4 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, We can all do big things.Big things you can’t even imagine—until you do. This past Christmas, my son climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Six days.Nearly 20,000 feet where oxygen is scarce.Four miles straight up.The equivalent of 14 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. He told me it was the hardest thing he’s ever done—and the most beautiful sight he’s ever seen. A view from the climb His climb reminded me of another Kilimanjaro story. In 1997, Martha Stewart climbed the same...
11 days ago • 1 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 It’s January 4. By now, you 'should' have your goals set.Your resolutions written.Your vision board complete.Your word of the year chosen. That’s what the world tells us. But for many people, instead of feeling fired up, you feel… flat. You think you should be ready to spring forward.But maybe your nervous system hasn’t caught up yet. If you feel quiet.Resistant.Unmotivated. You’re not behind. January 4 isn’t actually different from June 4.We just...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 There has always been a part of me that knew my life would be shaped by big, audacious dreams.Not because I had a clear plan.Not because I knew how.But because my mother told me, for as long as I can remember:“Christina, you write your own life script.” Maybe you know that feeling, too. That sense that something bigger is meant for you, even if you can’t fully name it yet. For years, I've been chasing that "something bigger" - growing, stretching,...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 There are times when I would die if you saw my closet. The remnants of a hurricane. So bad... Tangled belts, forgotten shoes, scarves wrapped around hangers jammed so tightly together that nothing has room to breathe. It makes getting dressed every day harder. The disorder becomes so overwhelming that I’d rather grab the leggings off the bathroom floor than face the chaos. My closet didn’t get messy overnight. It gets bad. I avoid. It gets worse. I...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Getting a job at Martha Stewart Living was my first impossible possibility. I was 26, working as a marketing manager at Time Inc., exhausted, frustrated with my boss, and hustling. The first issue of Martha Stewart Living landed in my office mailbox — back when we still had those. I read it cover to cover. Martha’s Editor’s Letter felt like she was speaking to the version of me I didn’t yet know how to become. The magazine took off.With every...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Reader, As we approach year-end, I want to support you in finishing strong and launching into 2026 with a mindset that turns impossible possibilities into your new normal. But this week, let’s pause. It’s Thanksgiving—and gratitude is the grounding force that carries you powerfully into what’s next. A time to give thanks and give back. There’s a chaotic magic to Thanksgiving in my house—the kids pounding in and out of the kitchen, a fresh puzzle on the kitchen island, the chatter of 1,000...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I heard Rhonda Byrne, the author of The Secret, say: You can't think of the way things are and expect change. We are the authors of our own life script and on the days that feel really hard it’s time to get a new pen, a new journal to lean on your two superpowers: Awareness and Imagination. Winners - and we all want to be winner - aren’t the ones who cling to the old normal. They’re the ones who design for a new reality. To many of us rely on our...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 People tell me that they are surprised that I have something to write to you every week. I write because I’m still in the work—growing, stretching, and pursuing my own impossible possibility. You've probably heard the idea that we only tap into 10% of our potential. This idea haunts me. Whether I'm journaling about my future, zoning out on my commute to NYC or getting ready in the morning, I catch myself wondering: If I'm only at 10%, what does my...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I could care less if I inspire you. Here me out... Inspiration is a spark. It’s lovely. It’s warm.But it does not create a new life. Action does. That’s how I opened my keynote at the Maine Women’s Conference.For years, I wanted to inform and inspire.But inspiration alone gives you… hope.And hope without action? Nada. From that stage, I asked 400 women to do one thing:Make one new decision in pursuit of who they want to become. We resist...
3 months ago • 3 min read