Since I was a kid I have loved building stuff with my hands. 

My dad having his own workshop, let me play around with tools and various materials. 

It lead to a passion for technology and creating stuff. 

My dad got me into racing gokarts and formula/car racing from when i was 12 till i was 18. 

When I was 17 I got into MMA and have been having fights as well. 

I studied Mechanical engineering at Aalborg University for 3 years before I started my own company, DIC Group, during the summer before my 4th year. It was an incredible experience and I quickly saw that in the first 2 months of starting my own company that summer, I made more money that I would in half a year as a mechanical engineer. This, combined with my extensive background growing up in a workshop, allowed me to bet on myself and take the leap into DIC Group full time instead of finishing my studies. 

By age 22, I scaled DIC Group to 22 employees, $2 million (USD) in revenue, and made my first million in profit (DKK). Then, I experienced by biggest business hardship at the time when a massive contract went south. In the end it unfortunately cost me my company and ended in bankruptcy. Even though I felt like giving up, I refused to do so. I simply believe that the way to win is through perseverance. So, I got back up and took all of my learnings and experience into my next venture, Airflight.

Shortly after the bankruptcy I founded @Airflight together with a team ( now we are only 2 founders) with the aim of making ordinary people get an extraordinary experience by flying in a flying car.

We flew the flying car and got a lot of media attention that showed us an market opportunity within the Wind turbine industry for flying spare parts and tools. 

Airflight now applied for grants and investment to convert the flying car into an unmanned 100kg payload drone called the AF100. One of the largest quadcopters in the world. 

With the AF100 flying we raised capital and got more grants to build the AF200 a 200kg payload drone that would be able to solve multiple industry headaches. 

Unfortunately we crashed the AF200 in the midst of a funding round, forcing us to scale down operations. This crash seemed to be the end of Airflight. 

I have now partnered up with one of the best companies in Denmark, Jack Foged A/S, to head their sales efforts and deliver even more value to even more customers. 

If you want a serious partner to build your piping project, then reach out to me and let's talk. 

I love the game of business and will probably work till the day I die, because I just cant stop.

Mikkel K.

2026 er landet og det er vi også hos Jack Foged A/S hvor vi er i gang med flere projekter i både sort og rustfrit stål. 

2025 var et år med spændende projekter indenfor energi og industri. 
Det som er spændende for en teknologi nørd som mig selv er at være med til at se projekter som rent faktisk gør en forskel for Danmarks borgere. 

Altså det når projekter går fra ideer og koncepter til at stå som færdige løsninger som producerer varme eller andet. 

Det som vi oftest glemmer i vores branche er egentlig vigtigheden af vores arbejde. Vi bygger hvert år rør til anlæg som bidrager til en bedre verden. 

Det er sku meget fedt, hvis jeg selv skal sige det.

Mikkel Karsgaard

Welded piping experts: Design → installation | 39+ yrs | @JACK FOGED A/S

Så er vi landet tilbage på Dansk jord og må sige det er noget af en kontrast fra Brasilien.

At komme fra 30 grader og sol hjem til - 5 grader og sne er noget som sætter tingene i perspektiv. 

Det fik mig til at tænke at sådan er det også tit i erhvervslivet fordi hvordan ved vi egentlig hvad godt er hvis ikke vi har prøvet dårligt?

Hvis ikke vi har kontrasten at måle med så tager vi måske det gode for givet. 

En af de ting jeg tager med som vi kan være stolte af i Danmark det er vores infrastruktur på mange måder, lige fra toilettet til kloakken til veje uden de store huller. 

Er en stolt dansker idag.

I en verden der synes at blive mere og mere skør er det vigtigt at have stabile samarbejdspartnere. Jack startede Jack Foged A/S i 1986.

Ham og teamet bag Jack Foged A/S har klaret sig igennem flere kriser end de fleste og virksomheden styres idag af hans to sønner Philip og Jacob. 

Når man er virksomhedsejer som Jack var og som han har lært hans sønner så lader man ikke nyhederne gå sig på. 
Man møder stadig ind og lægger sig i selerne for de kunder som har brug for en. 

Vi har lavet rør i 40 år og som jeg ser det så sker det nok også de næste 40 år som ejerledet virksomhed. 

Så har du de lange briller på i jeres virksomhed eller skal have en samarbejdspartner der er stabil, så ring eller skriv og lad os tage en snak.

I have come to realize in my life that the time I feel the most alive is when I am growing.

But growth doesn't come without pain, suffering, or failure, which is what I usually try to avoid from a logic perspective. 

Which brings me to the quote: "A man who never fell has no glory; the man who fell 21 times but got up 22 times—that man has way more glory."

When we humans put the fear of suffering or failure behind us and try anyway, that is where the real growth and happiness are buried. 

At least I have found that to be true for me.

To ting som ikke kommer til gå af mode i 2026:

Den gode svejsning og den gode relation. 

To ting som vi går ekstremt meget op i hos Jack Foged A/S.

Fordi den gode relation er med til at danne fundamentet for den gode svejsning og den gode svejsning er fundamentet for den gode relation i vores verden. 

Står du med et projekt hvor du skal have lave et rørsystem og du gerne vil have en samarbejdspartner der har styr på alt hvad der har med svejste rørsystemer at gøre og som vægter den gode relation. 

Så kan det være tiden er inde til at række ud til mig og tage en uforpligtende snak og se om der kan opnås en god relation så vi kan leverer nogle gode svejsninger til jer.

Noget af det sværeste ved at være projektleder er når telefonen begynder at ringe oftere og oftere og emails bliver flere og flere med problemer omkring dit projekt. 

Jeg kender det, Philip og Jacob kender det. 

Derfor har vi fokus på at hjælpe projektledere med at have en partner som gør arbejdsloading for projektlederen mindre så de kan fokusere på det rigtige. 

Det er derfor vi ikke kun laver rørarbejde:
- Dimensionering og spændingsverifikation (Rohr2) 
- Support-design og sekundært stålgalleri 
- Præfabrikation, montage, NDT 
- Godkendelse gennem notified body 
- Komplet dokumentation

Fra første beregning til sidste mærkeplade.
Ikke fordi vi er bedre til hvert enkelt element.
Men fordi koordinations-overhead dræber bundlinjen i flere projekter end dårligt håndværk.
Og fordi én ansvarlig part betyder nul tid brugt på at finde ud af hvis fejl det egentlig var.
Hvis du har haft et projekt hvor koordinationen tog mere tid end arbejdet så ved du præcis hvad jeg snakker om.

Vi er ligeglade med hvad farve du gerne vil have dine rør i, vi er mest interesteret i at levere et godt stykke håndværk - Uanset farven og størrelsen.

Jack Foged A/S fordi vi elsker rør.

Power to X er en af de fremadgående industrier i Danmark. 
Derfor er jeg taget til konference i Vejle for at repræsentere Jack Foged A/S. 

Power to X anlæg kræver mange procesrør og vi står klar til at hjælpe med at bygge, installerer og dokumenterer dem for jer.

A little behind the scenes for when we were putting the finishing touches on a big piping project last year.

 The project had pipes with pressures up to 140Bar. 
Carbon pipes up to 12" 
stainless up to 8" PN100 

Complex system in general. 
Tight deadline. 

But we made it happen in the end. 
Because we love making pipes and we love trying our best for our customers.

Sharing this today as I couldn't help but feel this matches the way Philip and Jacob thinks in Jack Foged A/S.

Just always trying to expand the mindset and capabilities. 

Truly inspiring and a great place to work. 

It makes a big difference for our clients as well when you have a partner that constantly is looking to become better and deliver more. 

Because they are going for it.

I have found that some of the most profound insights and growth have come from traveling. 

This winter I changed the cold in Denmark 🇩🇰 with the heat of Brazil🇧🇷 

What you gain when you travel far and experience different cultures is perspective. 

One thing that traveling all over the world have taught me is that the majority of the world consists of great people that are soing their best to do good in the world. 

Remember that when the media portrays stuff. 

We only see the extreme stuff because that's what drives revenue because of clicks. 

If you were to report on the majority it would be boring. 

I will over the coming weeks share some of the insights I have gained and the contrasts between the two countries. 

Enjoy the weekend!

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LinkedIn er enten verdens mest kraftfulde salgsmaskine eller det er Facebook for folk i jakkesæt.

Forskellen er ikke platformen.
Det er hvordan du filtrerer den.

Jeg brugte sidste måned på at rydde op i mit feed.
Unfollowede 4000+ personer.

Ikke fordi de er dårlige mennesker.
Men fordi de fylder mit "intelligence dashboard" med støj.

Her er hvad jeg lærte:
De fleste bruger LinkedIn som "passiv scroll" - ligesom Instagram.
Scroller. Liker. Føler sig opdateret. Lukker app.
Nul forretningsmæssig værdi.
Men hvis du behandler LinkedIn som et intelligence filter i stedet, ændrer spillet sig totalt:

FØR min oprydning:
180 minutter om dagen på platformen
80% irrelevant indhold (motivational quotes, viral reposts, humble brags)
2-3 relevante posts om ugen
0 konkrete leads

EFTER min oprydning:
60 minutter om dagen
90% direkte relevant for Jack Foged A/S (industri-nyheder, projekt-opdateringer, potentielle kunder der poster om udfordringer)
2-3 relevante posts om DAGEN
4 konkrete samtaler startet sidste uge alene

Det er ikke ROI. Det er ROA: Return on Attention.
Så hvad unfollowede jeg?

Type 1: Motivation Merchants Folk der deler generisk "inspiration" uden branche-kontekst.

Type 2: Viral Chasers Folk der re-poster andres indhold for likes uden at tilføje indsigt.

Type 3: Personal Brand Performere Folk der deler "min rejse" stories uden praktisk værdi for mit arbejde.

Hvad FØLGER jeg stadig?
Type A: Problem Posters Folk der deler konkrete udfordringer i vores industri.

Type B: Markedsintelligens Folk der analyserer trends, regulering, nye projekter.

Type C: Potentielle Partnere Folk hvis virksomheder kunne bruge vores løsninger eller vi kunne samarbejde med.

Den simple test:
Hvis jeg læser dette post, ved jeg noget jeg ikke vidste før som gør mig bedre til mit arbejde?
Hvis nej → unfollow.

De fleste er bange for at unfollow fordi "hvad nu hvis jeg misser noget?"
Men det du misser ved at IKKE rydde op er langt værre:
Du misser signalerne i støjen.

Sidste uge postede en potentiel kunde om et rør-problem.
Jeg så det. Kommenterede. forsætter samtalen i DM's og får Email til at sætte et møde op. 
Den post havde 12 likes. Algoritmen viste det næsten ikke til nogen.
Men jeg så det fordi mit feed er renset for alt andet støj.

Det er ikke om at se ALT.
Det er om at se det RIGTIGE.

Næste gang du åbner LinkedIn:
Spørg dig selv: "Bruger jeg dette som entertainment eller som intelligence?"
Hvis entertainment → Du konkurrerer mod TikTok og taber.
Hvis intelligence → Du har en unfair advantage ingen andre bruger.

Dit feed er dit våben.
Rens det.

Det i får ved at vælge Jack Foged A/S som jeres partner det kan ses på dette billede: 

To knejter der har haft passion for rør næsten lige så lang tid som vi har eksisteret. 

Philip Foged og Jacob Foged brænder for at drive virksomheden deres far byggede op videre I samme ånd. 

Jeg vil næste vædde med virksomheden stadig eksisterer om 40 år og stadig er i familien. 

Det gør mig stolt at være med på en rejse der har lange briller på og som er bygget på de gode værdier. 

Har I brug for en stærk samarbejdspartner til at lave jeres rør projekter så ræk ud. 

Vi elsker rør.

Something magical happens when you speak from the heart. 
People see you in your purest form, and then if they decide, they will connect to you in the deepest way possible. 

In moments like these, we create relationships that has a foundation that is rock solid because we know who the people are.

Because they showed their heart, not their intellect. 

Some people want to use their intellect to divide and conquer the world. 

Love is the strongest force in the world and has the power to restore order. 

Let's come together and use our hearts to guide us. 

This Monday starts with gratitude for all the amazing people I have met around the world who showed me their heart.

For nogen er det bare en svejsning, for os er det meget mere. 

Rør - Fittings - svejsning - dokumentation - installation - svejsning - dokumentation. 

Alt sammen med et forsøg på at blive 1% bedre hver gang for vores kunder og for Danmark. 

For med en stærk industri så står Danmark stærkt i verden. 

Vi er glad for at bidrage til en stærk industri. 

Jack Foged A/S Vi elsker rør. 

Har du et projekt hvor i skal have lavet rør så ræk ud og få en snak.

Jeg er ved at læse Morten Münsters's nye bog afdelingen for magisk tænkning og der er en ting jeg bider fast i. 

Gør mindre. 
og 
bliv bedre. 

Noget der går meget imod hustler culture men som faktisk giver rigtig god mening. 

Vi har alle sammen et livs hjul fyldt med: 

Bolig 
Sundhed
familie/venner
Arbejde/studie
Parforhold
Personlig udvikling
Fritid
Økonomi

Når vi bliver forblændet af folks highlight reels på sociale medier så kan vi få den forståelse at nogle folks livshjul er maxet ud og er 10/10 på alle områderne. 

Fakta er at du ser 10/10 på et område, hvilket i de fleste tilfælde betyder 1/10 på et eller flere områder. 

Hvis du skal have et godt mentalt helbred så er vi nødt til at sænke forventningerne til os selv på alle områderne og vide at hvis vi rammer 7/10 på de fleste områder så er vi faktisk mest lykkelig. 

Men vil du gerne være verdens bedste til noget og vinde guld til OL, så glem balance og gå ALL-in på et område og forsøm alle de andre i den periode. 

De fleste er ikke klar til at ofre det som skal til for at være verdens bedste og det er helt okay. 

Sænk forventningerne til dig selv og lad være med at sammenlign dig selv med andres ekstraordinære highlight reels og fokuser på at være middelmådig og lykkelig på de fleste områder. 

Med det sagt husk at intet er perfekt og alting er dynamisk. 
Godt nok er bedst for langtids lykke for den almindelige borger uden ønske om OL.

I går så jeg vigtigheden af kommunikation. 

Hvis du som kommunikator ikke får segmenteret dit budskab i folk så de husker dig og din info så har du fejlet. 

I den tekniske verden er der efter min mening simpelthen ikke nok fokus på at give folk træning i kommunikation. 

Hvis folk ikke kan huske dine slides og dine pointer fordi din kommunikation er dårlig, ja så har du spildt din egen tid, virksomhedens tid og andres tid. 

Men det er ikke din skyld, det er simpelthen fordi kommunikation som fagkundskab aldrig bliver prioriteret, da det jo virker som spild af tid. 

Men det er det virkelig ikke, det er noget som kan have stor værdi for dig, dine kunder og dine samarbejdspartnere. 

For mere fokus på kommunikation.

For most of my adult life and career, I have been training the wrong muscle.

I have realized the true impact of that now. 

Coming from a home where alcohol abuse was close to my everyday, "normal" was something I wanted to get away from. 
Hence, I have never wanted to be "normal" or do normal stuff.  

What that has allowed me to do in my career is to do extraordinary stuff and also in my personal life. But 33 years in and closing in on 34 years, it has struck me what the downside is:

Doing the basic stuff is HARD. 

Why? 

Because deep down I associated that with pain. 

Yet most of the really extraordinary achievements and joyful moments come from doing the basic stuff really, really well. 

We are constantly looking for the next hack or tip that can advance us in our lives. 
Yet, what you are looking for is already there; in most cases, you are just not doing it. 

The muscle I have been more aware of training the last couple of years, without me knowing fully, is the muscle of doing the basic stuff really well. 

Training the muscle of doing what you know you should be doing but you aren't. 

That muscle is what many of us should be training. 

Not looking for an extra PDF to download from LinkedIn that you end up not using anyway. 

Start doing the basic boring stuff.

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Stop chasing success alone.

Every innovator who built something great had 1 thing in common

Connection
It’s not that creativity happens alone…
It’s that the brain creates better in connection.

The brain evolved to think with other brains.
When connection is present, threat detection quiets.

The amygdala relaxes.
The prefrontal cortex stays online.
That’s where creativity lives.

Connection increases neural synchrony.
Brains begin to align.
Ideas move faster.
Patterns emerge you can’t see solo.

Isolation does the opposite.
Thinking loops.
Risk tolerance drops.
Novelty dries up.

Creativity isn’t just about safety.
It’s about belonging.
Here’s how :

1️⃣ Think out loud with others
 Speaking activates more neural networks than silent thought.
 Shared dialogue creates neural synchrony,
 helping the brain integrate patterns it can’t access alone.
 Half-formed ideas are fuel, not flaws.

2️⃣ Build before you judge
 Evaluation triggers the amygdala.
 Threat shuts down the prefrontal cortex.
 Sequence matters: expand first, critique later.
 Flow requires a brain that isn’t defending itself.

3️⃣ Create spaces to explore, not perform
 Performance activates social threat circuitry.
 Play lowers cortisol and increases cognitive flexibility.
 A relaxed nervous system makes wider, more novel connections.

Innovation doesn’t come from brilliance.
It comes from brains that feel safe thinking together.

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New ideas don’t land when the mind is closed

They land when the brain feels receptive.

Most people try to improve thinking
by defending what they already know.

❌ Proving they’re right.
❌ Protecting past decisions.
❌ Filtering out disconfirming information.

The brain reads that as threat.
So it resists.
When certainty feels required,
the nervous system shifts into protection mode.

Attention filters aggressively.
Contradictory data gets rejected.
Novel information never makes it in.

The brain prioritizes consistency, not accuracy.
That’s why growth stalls
when identity gets attached to being right.

Receptivity requires a different state.
When the parasympathetic nervous system activates,
the body settles.
Heart rate slows.
Breath deepens.
Defensiveness drops.

In that state, the brain becomes plastic again
instead of rigid.

Prediction errors are tolerated.
New inputs are explored.
Old models get updated.

You don’t fight new information.
You metabolize it.
Psychological safety is what allows this shift.

It tells the brain:
🧠 You won’t lose status for reconsidering.
🧠 You’re allowed to change your mind.
🧠 You can hold uncertainty without danger.

Without safety, the brain defends.
With safety, the brain learns.
No openness, no updating.
No updating, no evolution.

Here’s how to become more receptive:
1️⃣ Regulate before you evaluate
A calm nervous system tolerates contradiction.
Learning follows regulation.

2️⃣ Separate identity from ideas
Threat drops when beliefs aren’t tied to self-worth.
Flexibility increases.

3️⃣ Slow down first reactions
Pausing interrupts reflexive rejection.
Curiosity has time to emerge.

The next level isn’t hidden.
It’s already available once the brain feels safe enough.

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This feels illegal.

I built a mobile app while sailing.

Out there, things get quiet.
No notifications fighting for attention.
No noise telling you who to be.

Just wind, water, and time to notice what’s inside.

That’s where the idea came from.

Not everyone can disappear onto a boat.
But everyone needs a way to reconnect with themselves
In a loud world that never shuts up.

So I opened Replit
and described an app idea I’d already been researching. 

How to connect with yourself in a tech heavy world using…
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You guessed it. 

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A live phone preview appeared.
I played with it and iterated between tacks. 
A few messages later, the app matched the intention.

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It's not that you aren't creative...

It's that your brain doesn't get enough breathing room

When outcomes matter too much,
the nervous system shifts into protection.

Certainty over curiosity.
Efficiency over exploration.

The amygdala scans for mistakes.
The prefrontal cortex goes quiet.
Thinking narrows to what’s already proven.

That feels like a creativity problem.
It’s actually a safety problem.

Innovation doesn’t come from pushing harder.
It comes from widening the mental field.

Creative insight requires a brain
that isn’t bracing for consequences.

One that feels free to test, miss, and iterate
without immediate judgment.

That’s why pressure-heavy environments
produce more output…
and fewer breakthroughs.

Creativity is a state, not a talent.
Change the state and ideas follow.

Here’s how to heighten creativity on demand:

1/ Slow the body before you think
Creativity follows regulation.
Lengthen your exhale for 60 seconds before ideating.
A calmer nervous system reopens cognitive range.

2/ Create “low-stakes” thinking space
Tell your brain nothing here has to be right.
Set a 10-minute window for bad ideas only.
Permission removes the fear that blocks novelty.

3/ Shift environments, not effort
New inputs disrupt rigid patterns.
Walk. Change rooms. Look farther into the distance.
Movement and visual expansion spark new connections.

When the brain feels safe enough to explore,
it starts to play.
And play is where innovation lives.

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Your best ideas don’t show up when you’re busy

They show up when your nervous system settles.

Most people chase creativity by adding pressure.
More urgency.
More stakes.
More noise.

The brain responds by tightening.
Sympathetic activation rises.
Attention narrows.
Thinking becomes reactive.

It’s biology doing its job.
Insight comes from a different state.
When the parasympathetic nervous system activates,
💖The body slows.
💖Breath deepens.
💖Perception widens.

In that state, the prefrontal cortex regains flexibility.
The default mode network comes online.
Problems stop looking fixed and start looking solvable.

This is why breakthroughs arrive in the shower.
On walks.
After you stop trying.

Psychological safety is what allows this shift to happen.
When the brain doesn’t feel rushed or judged,
 
💡It explores.
💡It reframes.
💡It sees options that pressure hides.

No safety, no space.
No space, no insight.

Here’s how to design for it:
1️⃣ Slow the body before thinking
 Regulation opens cognitive range.
 Insight follows physiological calm.

2️⃣ Reduce perceived consequences
 Lower stakes keep the prefrontal cortex online.
 Safety precedes creativity.

3️⃣ Create margin in your schedule
 White space invites recombination.
 Ideas need room to collide.

Innovation doesn’t come from force.
It comes from a nervous system that’s allowed
to settle and see differently.

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Clarity doesn’t come from thinking harder

It comes from feeling safer.

When the brain senses pressure, it prepares to defend.
 
Attention narrows.
Options collapse.
The mind looks for certainty.

That state is efficient.
It’s not creative.

Innovation requires uncertainty tolerance.
That tolerance lives in the nervous system,
not the intellect.

When the parasympathetic nervous system activates,

✅ The body slows.
✅ The threat response stands down.
✅ The brain regains flexibility.

This is when perception widens.
Old assumptions loosen.

Problems reorganize themselves.
New pathways become visible.
Psychological safety is what allows this shift.

It tells the brain nothing bad will happen
if you explore a different angle.

Without safety, the brain repeats.
With safety, the brain imagines.

No regulation, no reframing.
No reframing, no innovation.

Here’s how to design for it:
1️⃣ Regulate before you reason
 Slowing the breath reduces neural noise.
 Clear thinking follows bodily calm.

2️⃣ Delay decisions during ideation
 Premature judgment triggers threat circuits.
 Time preserves creative flexibility.

3️⃣ Create private space to think freely
 Privacy lowers social evaluation.
 Safety expands possibility.

Breakthroughs come from a nervous system 
that feels safe enough
to see the problem differently.

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You’re not broken.

You're just not connected...

...in a way no one taught you to recognize.

We have more connection technology than ever.
Group chats. Slack threads. Social feeds.
Standing meetings. Faces everywhere.

You can be busy, productive, and surrounded by people
And still feel unseen, unfelt, and unsupported.

Modern life keeps the nervous system overstimulated.
Your brain is flooded with input, decisions,
and performance cues.

When that happens, the social brain goes offline.
You don’t lose the desire for connection.
You lose access to it.

So you adapt.

You stay functional instead of present.
You keep conversations light instead of real.
You handle things alone because it feels safer.
You tell yourself you’re “fine”
while feeling disconnected from yourself.

Over time, that state becomes your baseline.
And the most painful part?

You start to believe this is just how life is.
It’s not.

Disconnection isn’t a personality trait.
It’s a nervous system state.
And nervous system states can change.

Here’s what neuroscience shows actually helps.

1/ regulation comes before connection.
 When your system is overloaded,
 bonding chemistry can’t do its job.
 You don’t need better words.
 You need your body to feel safe enough
 to be real.

2/ small moments matter more
 than deep conversations.
 Eye contact that lasts a beat longer.
 A pause instead of rushing away.
 Naming what you notice
 instead of what sounds impressive.

3/ connection accelerates in the right environment.
Trying to heal disconnection alone
 keeps the brain in protection mode.
 Being around others doing hard inner work
 creates co-regulation.

Your nervous system learns:
“I don’t have to carry this by myself.”
That’s why community matters.

Not noisy.
Not performative.
Not networking.

But a grounded space of people 
reconnecting with themselves
and with others.

This is what I’m building.
A community for capable, thoughtful people
doing hard things
who don’t want to do them alone.

A place to regulate, reflect, and be real
without fixing yourself
or pretending you’re fine.

If you’ve felt alone in a world full of people,
it’s not because something is wrong with you.
It’s because your nervous system
hasn’t had the right conditions yet.

And you don’t have to create those alone.
If this resonated, the community is open
for people ready to reconnect with themselves and with others.

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It’s not that your team doesn't have new ideas…

It’s that they don’t feel safe enough to share them with you.

When people sense evaluation,
their nervous systems switch to self-protection.

😶‍🌫️ They edit.
😶‍🌫️ They hedge.
😶‍🌫️ They stick to what’s already approved.

That looks like alignment.
It’s actually inhibition.

Innovation requires exposure.
New ideas are, by definition, unproven.
And the brain treats being wrong like a social threat.

So the amygdala gets loud.
Risk tolerance drops.
Thinking narrows to what won’t get you in trouble.

That’s why teams with “high standards”
but low psychological safety
produce execution…
not breakthroughs.

Psychological safety isn’t about being nice.
It’s about creating conditions
where the prefrontal cortex stays online.

When people believe they won’t be punished
for experimenting,
their brains stay open.

They challenge assumptions.
They connect unlikely dots.
They surface problems early.

No safety, no innovation.
No innovation, no future edge.

If you want better ideas, don’t ask for more creativity.
Design environments where
people don’t have to protect themselves first.

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Your CRM shows ACTIVITY.

It doesn't show REALITY.

Most managers think they understand their pipeline.
But they’re only seeing the version their reps feel comfortable sharing.

The CRM shows progress.
The reps show confidence.
The pipeline shows movement.

But underneath all of that
there’s hesitation, uncertainty, and doubt
that never makes it into the forecast.

And that’s the part that costs you.

Reps aren’t trying to mislead you.
They’re trying to look competent.
So they hold back the early warning signs.
They soften how shaky a deal feels.
They overstate buyer momentum.

They wait until a problem becomes undeniable
and by then
your quarter is already in danger.

That’s why so many leaders get blindsided.
Not because the deals are bad
but because the real signals were never visible.

A CRM tracks activity.
It doesn’t track conviction.
It doesn’t track buyer emotions.
It doesn’t track rep confidence.
It doesn’t track the energy of the deal
which is the part that collapses first.

SalesSage exposes that hidden layer.
It reveals where reps feel unsure.
It highlights deals that look fine on paper
but feel unstable underneath.
It identifies slipping belief before it becomes slipping revenue.
It gives you truth early
so you can fix the problem while there’s still time.

Leaders don’t need more data.
They need the truth behind the data.
That’s the gap SalesSage closes.

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You can’t fix a quarter your team’s afraid to talk about.

Your biggest revenue leak isn’t pipeline. It’s silence.

The worst part of running a sales team
is thinking you’re safe right before the quarter blows up.

Your CRM says you’re good.
Your reps say deals are “strong”.
Forecast looks clean.
You breathe for two seconds.

Then the quarter flips
and you’re standing there like
what the hell just happened?

Here’s the truth nobody wants to say:
Reps aren’t lying.
Their brains are.

People say things are fine when they’re overwhelmed.
They overestimate deals when they’re stressed.
They downplay risk when they don’t want to look behind.

So you get the truth only after it hits your number.
Sales Sage catches it earlier.

It spots confidence dips.
Avoidance patterns.
Dead deals dressed up as healthy ones.
Execution cracks that never show in a CRM.

Stuff reps don’t say out loud but absolutely tank a quarter.
If you’re tired of getting blindsided
by “everything looks good” data

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Stop telling yourself that you're too busy to DM.

Stop telling yourself DMs are too pushy. 

DMs close sales. Period. 

Most people think outreach stalls
because they don’t know what to say.
That’s rarely true.

What’s actually happening is identity protection.
Your brain isn’t avoiding DMs to save time.
It’s protecting how you see yourself.

So you stay visible.
You post.
You wait.

And the conversations that move revenue never start.

When the nervous system flags selling as risk,
avoidance looks like strategy.

Weeks pass.
Opportunities decay.
Revenue becomes unpredictable.
That delay has a real cost.

Avoiding just 3–5 high-value messages a week
can quietly leave $15K–$100K per quarter on the table.

Not because you lack ability.
Because “selling” feels unsafe.

This is why scripts don’t stick.
Knowledge ≠ movement.

Insight shows up first.
Behavior only follows when the underlying pattern shifts.

That’s what Butterhood is for.
Not more information.
Not performance.
Not pressure.

It’s a place to notice friction in real time
and make small, deliberate moves
that change momentum.

Inside, we work on:
Why certain conversations stall even when you say the right thing
What makes outreach feel heavy and how to remove that friction
How to move conversations forward without forcing or performing
Installing a sales rhythm that feels stable instead of stressful

They’re ordered intentionally.
Each layer stabilizes the nervous system for the next.

If you’ve ever thought, “This makes sense…
so why am I not doing it yet?”

That’s the signal.
GET IN THE DMS.
Still resisting?
GET INTO THE BUTTERHOOD.

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Why do you have that stupid look on your face?

A C-level executive asked me on my first day

I was sitting across his desk of my first big girl job
(Talk about an executive onboarding)
I was just 20 years old.

I remember freezing.
Not answering.
Just blinking.

I laughed it off and swallowed my pride. 

Meeting over.
But my body stayed locked.

Jaw tight.
Chest and body buzzing.
Mind replaying every word.

Later that day a coworker asked if I was okay.

I said yes.
I wasn’t lying on purpose.
I just didn’t know what “okay” even meant anymore.

That’s the problem with stress.
It normalizes.
Your nervous system adapts.
Your baseline quietly shifts.

You think its no big deal. 
I’m fine. 

Your body knows that you’re not.
For years, I relied on vibes.
Am I handling it or barely holding it together?

No data.
No baseline.
Just guessing.

That’s why I built a these resources
✅ An entire toxic boss armor system
✅ 25-question nervous system audit
✅ An app that helps you each step of the way

Not a personality quiz.
Not mindset fluff.

Actual signals of load, recovery,
and how close you are to the edge.

The site and app give you a real baseline.
Clear data.
Practical next steps.

You don’t need thicker skin.
You need awareness and a hand up. 

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Why do you have that stupid look on your face

Everyone wants AI magic.

Few want to invest in the foundation.

People light up when they talk about AI lead gen.

AI outreach.
AI follow up.
AI prospecting.
The promise of more output with less effort...
It's intoxicating.

But effectiveness still comes from the human brain.
The seller’s state.
The buyer’s state.
The interaction between the two.

If your nervous system is overloaded, 
your messages won’t land.

If your prospect’s nervous system is tense,
your tools won’t move them.

If your clarity wobbles,
your AI will wobble with it.

Tools can accelerate your behavior.
They can’t upgrade your regulation.
They can’t deepen your presence.
They can’t create safety for a buyer who isn’t sure yet.

So you can very quickly send a bad message to 
a lot of people (and I see this a lot).
Super efficient. 
Effective?
Not so much. 

You would have been better off 
not to send anything at all. 

You create
👀 noise.
👀 hesitation.
👀 stall points.

Before you automate anything,
your nervous system has to support the interaction.
Your messaging has to speak to the real pressure points.
Your awareness has to read what the buyer is actually signaling.

Here are the pieces that shift everything:
1️⃣ A regulated internal state
A steady system writes messages people lean into.

2️⃣ Understanding buyer pressure
Not their demographics.
Their actual cognitive load.

3️⃣ Signal-based communication
Warmth, recency, micro-openings, lowered stakes.

Without this foundation in place, AI becomes clutter.
😶‍🌫️ Damages your brand.
😶‍🌫️ Irritates your people. 
😶‍🌫️ Loses your clients.

Inside Butterhood, this is the core work.
The human layer that makes every tool
more powerful, more accurate, and more profitable.
EFFECTIVE.

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7 signs you're tough enough for your toxic boss...

without quitting your job.

Your nervous system has a baseline.
That baseline shapes how pressure lands.

Here are 7 signs you're tough enough:

1/ Your baseline state
 A system that rarely rests stays closer to threat.
 From that state, stress hits faster and harder.
 Do this: notice how you feel when you first wake up.
 Do this: schedule one daily pause with no objective.

2/ Continuous motion
 Moving task to task keeps activation high.
 The body never completes a stress cycle.
 Do this: insert a 2-minute pause between blocks.
 Do this: stand still and breathe before switching tasks.

3/ Mental load during “rest”
 A busy mind keeps the system activated.
 Physical stillness alone doesn’t equal recovery.
 Do this: notice if your mind stays busy at rest.
 Do this: gently bring attention to body sensations.

4/ Guilt around slowing down
 Guilt keeps the nervous system alert.
 Safety requires permission to stop.
 Do this: notice the urge to justify rest.
 Do this: remind yourself recovery supports performance.

5/ Morning and evening carryover
 Tension on waking signals unresolved load.
 Evening stress blocks downshifting.
 Do this: check your body before checking your phone.
 Do this: create a short shutdown ritual at night.

6/ Recovery timing
 Waiting for exhaustion delays regulation.
 Late recovery takes longer to work.
 Do this: rest before you feel depleted.
 Do this: add small resets throughout the day.

7/ Social threat sensitivity
 Overloaded systems struggle with power dynamics.
 Emotional range narrows under pressure.
 Do this: regulate before interactions, not after.
 Do this: widen awareness when tension rises.

This comes before any boss strategy.
Awareness of starting state is the first layer of immunity.

PS Which point showed you something you hadn’t noticed before?

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 7 signs you're tough enough for a toxic boss

Don't just pray for a job.

Pray for a leader, not a toxic boss. 

They say you leave your manager, not your job.
So. True. 

Culture lives in nervous systems.
Leaders set the baseline every day.
Teams regulate around that signal automatically.

Here are 5 signs of a great leader:

1/ Self-regulation
 A great leader notices their own stress.
 They slow down before they speak.
 The room settles when they enter.

A toxic leader brings unprocessed stress.
The room tightens immediately.

2/ Clarity under pressure
 A great leader keeps priorities stable.
 Expectations stay clear during chaos.
 Brains relax when rules do not shift.

A toxic leader changes direction emotionally.
The team scans moods instead of work.

3/ Pressure flows upward
 A great leader absorbs pressure from above.
 They filter noise before it hits the team.
 Focus stays intact.

A toxic leader pushes pressure downward.
Urgency spreads through the group.

4/ Recovery is allowed
 A great leader respects human limits.
 Pauses are normal and safe.
 Energy and thinking stay strong.

A toxic leader rewards constant output.
Rest feels risky or earned.

5/ Response over reaction
 A great leader pauses in conflict.
 Their nervous system stays online.
 Hard talks feel contained.

A toxic leader reacts emotionally.
Others mirror the instability.
Trust erodes quietly.

Leadership is not control.
It is regulation.

PS Which one of these have you felt?

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Behind every “I’m not qualified”

Is a future you haven’t met yet. 

I’m not technical.
I’ve never wanted to be “the code person.”
And honestly, that used to stop me.

Because most AI coding hype assumes
you already know what you’re doing.
Repos.
Installs.
Setup before you even start.

That’s where Replit felt different.
I stayed in the browser.
I described what I wanted in plain words.
And I watched a real app come to life.
Live.

I wasn’t struggling to learn syntax.
I was refining an idea using my own language. 

You grow by doing things you aren’t qualified to do yet.
Most people don’t fail because they can’t.

They stop because they tell themselves
“I’m not technical enough.”

I didn’t suddenly become technical.
The barrier just disappeared.

Replit handled the setup, hosting, and deployment.
I focused on what the app should feel like.
That’s the unlock.

If you already code,
pairing Replit with Claude Code accelerates shipping.
If you don’t,
Replit still lets you build something real.

No identity change required.

You don’t need permission.
You don’t need a team.
You don’t need to be “qualified” yet.
You just need to start.

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If you can’t regulate...

You can’t close.

Sales exposes you.
You meet yourself in every conversation.

Your patterns.
Your pressure points.
Your nervous system.
And there are truths you can’t bypass.

You can only face them and train your brain to handle them.
Here are the fifteen brutal truths that shape every 
👀 coach
👀 solopreneur
👀 salesperson

Skinny to long.
Short to heavy.

Exactly how they hit in real life.

1. Pain shows.
2. Hope lies.
3. Buyers drift.
4. Silence grows teeth.
5. Confidence is unstable.
6. Urgency fades overnight.
7. Your tone leaks your pressure.
8. Your pipeline mirrors your mind.
9. Hard calls get pushed tomorrow.
10. Deals die from emotional overload.
11. You cling to maybes to avoid rejection.
12. You chase when your nervous system spikes.
13. You fill your calendar instead of your forecast.
14. You talk more when your brain feels threatened.
15. You lose more deals from dysregulation than bad skills.

The people who win aren’t the hardest closers.
They’re the ones who can think when the noise hits.

They regulate faster.
They recover quicker.
They protect their cognitive bandwidth.

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increases yeses..
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Don’t be afraid to start all over again.

You might like your new story better.

Most people don’t stay with toxic bosses
because they love the job.

They stay because starting over feels risky.

You already invested time.
You already proved yourself.
You already survived this much.

So you tell yourself to push through.
But toxic environments don’t just drain energy.
They slowly rewrite who you think you are.

Confidence narrows.
Vision shrinks.
Your nervous system learns to expect threat.

Starting over isn’t failure.
It’s interruption.
And sometimes, leaving isn’t possible yet.
That’s where people get stuck.

Here’s how to regain agency
even if you can’t leave right now.

Three pillars.
Practical. Grounded. Usable.

1/ Establish your baseline
You need to know your starting state.
Stress feels normal when it’s chronic.
Without data, you guess how you’re doing.
Do this: assess how activated you feel most days.
Do this: track sleep, tension, and recovery honestly.
Baseline awareness tells you whether you’re already 
overloaded before the boss even enters the picture.

2/ Predict instead of brace
Toxic bosses are patterned.
The same situations trigger the same behavior.
Surprise is what spikes threat.
Do this: list the moments they escalate.
Do this: plan your response before it happens.
Prediction gives your nervous system what it desperately wants.
Certainty.

3/Plan recovery like it’s required
Stress doesn’t end when the meeting ends.
Unreleased activation carries forward.
That’s how burnout accumulates.
Do this: schedule recovery after interactions.
Do this: close the stress cycle deliberately.
Recovery restores clarity, confidence, and choice.

This is how you protect yourself
while you decide what comes next.

And if there truly is no exit right now,
you still don’t have to white-knuckle it.

That’s why I built
Toxic Boss Armor.

It gives you a baseline.
Helps you predict patterns.
Builds plans that keep your nervous system intact.

Starting over doesn’t always mean leaving tomorrow.
Sometimes it means reclaiming yourself first.

PS If you could rewrite your work story, 
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Micromanagement breeds compliance.

Not commitment.

When every move is monitored,
every decision is corrected,
and every mistake is highlighted,
the brain stops optimizing for growth.

It starts optimizing for safety.
Micromanagement increases uncertainty.
Uncertainty activates the amygdala.
Threat signaling rises.
The prefrontal cortex goes partially offline.

That’s the biology of it.
The prefrontal cortex is where initiative lives,
creativity lives, and ownership lives.

When threat is present, those functions are deprioritized.
So the nervous system adapts.
People do what’s asked.

They stop offering ideas.
They wait for instructions.
They avoid visibility.

From the outside, it looks like control is working.
From the inside, commitment is already gone.

Chronic micromanagement also keeps the stress axis activated.
Cortisol stays elevated.
Recovery shortens.
Motivation drops.
Burnout becomes inevitable.

This is nervous system load.
Leaders often assume disengagement = people don’t care.

More often, it means their nervous system 
doesn’t feel safe enough to invest.

And if you’re on the receiving end of this,
you don’t need thicker skin.

You need regulation, data, and strategy.

That’s why I built
Toxic Boss Armor.

It helps you understand your nervous system baseline,
predict toxic patterns,
and protect your clarity and confidence
even when leadership doesn’t change.

Compliance is a warning sign.
Commitment only emerges when the brain feels safe.

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The answer doesn’t show up when you chase it

It shows up when you stop gripping.

Most people try to solve problems by applying more force.

❌ More analysis.
❌ More urgency.
❌ More mental effort.

The brain hears that as threat.
So it tightens.

When pressure rises,
the nervous system shifts into control mode.

Attention narrows.
Thinking becomes repetitive.

The brain looks for the least risky answer,
not the most interesting one.

That’s why clarity feels elusive when you need it most.
Insight lives in a quieter state.

When the parasympathetic nervous system activates,
the body settles.

Heart rate slows.
Breath deepens.
Internal noise drops.

In that state, the brain starts integrating 
instead of defending.

Patterns rearrange.
Meaning surfaces.
You don’t force the answer.
You notice it.

Psychological safety is what gives the nervous system
permission to loosen its grip.

It tells the brain:
🧠 You’re allowed to pause.
🧠 You’re allowed to wonder.
🧠 You’re allowed to see this differently.

Without safety, the brain loops.
With safety, the brain listens.

No calm, no coherence.
No coherence, no insight.

Here’s how to invite clarity back in:
1️⃣ Soften the body first
Longer exhales reduce neural noise.
The mind follows the body into calm.

2️⃣ Remove time pressure from thinking
Urgency activates threat circuits.
Space restores perspective.

3️⃣ Be alone long enough to hear yourself
Solitude lowers social evaluation.
The quiet reveals what you already know.

The answer isn’t missing.
It’s waiting for peace to rise high enough
for you to hear it.

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