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Lana Starchuck (she/her/elle) @lanastarchuck

Helping purpose driven teams navigate uncertainty by reframing fear | resilience expert | courage coach | speaker | skydiver | editor | author 🦁

Joined December 2008
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Rehearsing emotional state seths.blog/2025/12/rehearsin…

Rehearsing emotional state

If you walk into the Parthenon or paddle at dawn on Joe Lake, it’s easy to feel a sense of wonder. And waiting in a long line for an important flight can trigger frustration. But much of the …

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“Be yourself” seths.blog/2025/03/be-yourse…

“Be yourself”

Really? Which self? The self you were when you were two years old, almost out of diapers? The self you were when you were screaming with the fans at the big game? The self you were after a long nig…

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🫵You are the only self you have, like it or not. 😎#authenticity #uniquebydefault “Be yourself” seths.blog/2025/03/be-yourse…

“Be yourself”

Really? Which self? The self you were when you were two years old, almost out of diapers? The self you were when you were screaming with the fans at the big game? The self you were after a long nig…

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♻️🙂Repeat happy accidents ✅seths.blog/2025/02/repeat-ha…

Repeat happy accidents

Those three words unlock our understanding of innovation and of biological evolution. Successful outcomes often follow unpredicted actions. If we allow ourselves to do things that might not work, w…

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Well written post on shifting your perspective ✌️🤍♻️Rage, Reflection, and Redirection open.substack.com/pub/compas…
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#HappyNewYear ✌️✨🌎The reality of meliorism seths.blog/2024/12/the-reali…

The reality of meliorism

Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could ameliorate the problems of the human condition, day by day, year by year, toward better. Max Roser h…

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Egg Yolk Sky

11x15 watercolour on 140lb cold press acid free paper and matted to fit a 16x20 frame

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🌄New day 💝Clear ice 🏒Solid advice...⛸️ seths.blog/2024/11/clear-ice…

Clear ice

I love Zamboni machines. They’re ungainly, they’re slow but they’re also majestic. Like an elephant for ice hockey. After each period, when the ice is chopped up by play, the Zamb…

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Rafflebox: Help support the Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 50/50 Fundraiser and have a chance to win some real prizes. rafflebox.ca/raffle/avws
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🌎✨Everything feels different once we realize that something happened for it to become what it is now. 🤔🥫Embodied energy seths.blog/2024/09/embodied-…

Embodied energy

It might only cost $2 in the vending machine, but that can of soda is a complicated battery. It stores the energy of the machines that were used to mine the bauxite, the ship that brought the ore t…

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🧘‍♀️🪷❤️Silence vs noise seths.blog/2024/08/silence-v…

Silence vs noise

When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to happen. But silence requires everyone to be in sync.

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Glib seths.blog/2024/07/glib/

Glib

One of the valid complaints about some AI systems is that they make stuff up, with confidence, and without sourcing, and then argue when challenged. Unsurprisingly, this sounds a lot like people. W…

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#ChillOut #Meditation Much ado about nothing: world’s most relaxed people gather in Seoul for ‘space-out’ competition | South Korea | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/articl…

Much ado about nothing: world’s most relaxed people gather in Seoul for ‘space-out’ competition

Participant with the lowest resting heart rate wins contest aimed at reminding workers to stop and take a breather

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RIP #AliceMunro #CanadianIcon #shortstory ✌️💜📚 Alice Munro, Canadian author who mastered the short story, dead at 92 cbc.ca/news/canada/alice-mun…

Alice Munro, Canadian literary titan, dead at 92 | CBC News

Alice Munro, the Canadian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was acclaimed for blending ordinary lives with extraordinary themes, has died at the age of 92.

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The unwarranted smile seths.blog/2024/05/the-unwar…

The unwarranted smile

When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we…

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Just subscribed to Heidi Reimer’s Visibility Letters because of her story of perseverance and not giving up on her creative goals. A role model. An inspiration. Testament to what happens when you stick with it. 💪☯️ heidireimer.substack.com/?ut…
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Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse)

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