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My ikigai is guiding people through Self Healing Leadership – a practice designed to help leaders recognize the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that create resistance in their decisions, conversations, and actions; heal and reintegrate what holds them back or what they are holding back; and lead from their truest Self. I started building online communities in 1996 and was the Community Architect at Zappos.com. After working for multiple startups with exits I tried building five of my own. That led to two exits, multiple failures, and several lifetimes of lessons learned. I have mentored over 1000 founders and leaders through Techstars, 500Global, Hatchet Ventures, Gener8or, and other entrepreneur organizations. And I have worked with more than 300 of them for 3+ months. While I have a technical background, I prefer to speak in gardening and architecture metaphors. I am inspired by storytelling, psychology, evangelism, architectural theory, social economics, game mechanics, cultural anthropology, compassion, and ants. Yes, ants. Oh, and I fall in love with almost everyone I meet.