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What Hip Hop Can Teach You About Leading with Purpose
At some point in your career and in your life, you start asking different questions.
Not How do I get ahead?
But What am I building?
Not How do I lead others?
But Am I leading in a way that actually feels like me?

StevenMiyao
Jul 15, 20252 min read


Why Midlife Can Feel Lonely and How Reclaiming Friendship Changes Everything
My uncle, Axel Scholtz, with his friends Our lives are full of responsibility: partners, kids, aging parents, yet what’s often missing in...

StevenMiyao
Jul 1, 20255 min read


How Strong Leaders Can Overcome Self-Doubt
How the identity gap impacts your leadership and what to do about it What if the biggest barrier to your leadership impact isn’t what you...

StevenMiyao
Jun 20, 20255 min read


A Father’s Day Reflection: What Will My Kids Remember About Me?
Most parents I coach struggle with the same things: trying to be the best parent, figuring out how to take care of their aging parents, navigating work transitions, and the unspoken pressure of being able to manage everything without falling apart. I can relate to them because I’m going through the same thing. I help Kade get ready in the morning, he still can’t dress himself because he has special needs. My daughter lives on the West Coast, and I try to stay up late to talk

StevenMiyao
Jun 15, 20255 min read


To Begin Your Next Chapter, You Have to Let Go of Who You Were
There’s a feeling of deep melancholy in our generation and a low-level, underlying sense of discomfort that doesn’t always scream for attention, but it’s real. And it’s often the first sign that something deeper needs to shift. For many Gen Xers, it’s the realization they never got to where they thought they’d be, and they quietly carry that disappointment. For others, it’s worse: they got there, did everything right, and discovered they don’t even like what they are doing. A

StevenMiyao
Jun 7, 20254 min read


The Sacred Side of Success: One Entrepreneur’s Path to Conscious Leadership
The Sacred Side of Success: Bruno Del Ama on Intuition, Leadership, and Conscious Growth You're not alone if you’ve ever hit a...

StevenMiyao
May 20, 20254 min read


The Overlooked Generation: Why Gen X Feels Stuck (and What to Do About It)
Office Space — Peter Gibbons Leaning Back in His Cubicle It’s 10:00 pm. The dishes are finally done. Your teenager just yelled at you...

StevenMiyao
May 12, 20255 min read


How Gen X Can Future-Proof Their Careers in the Age of AI
We’re the generation who learned to rewind cassette tapes with a pencil, typed college papers in WordPerfect, and made calls from hallway...

StevenMiyao
May 1, 20256 min read


You Don’t Need a Plane Crash to Change Your Life
When Maryann Bruce survived US Airways Flight 1549—the "Miracle on the Hudson"—she described it this way: "It’s as if I went to my own...

StevenMiyao
Apr 29, 20253 min read


Executive Clarity in a Chaotic World: 5 Stories That Might Change How You Lead
Volatile economic conditions, shifting trade policies, and geopolitical tensions are driving markets down—and creating all kinds of challenges for leaders. For years, rising markets masked leadership gaps.

StevenMiyao
Apr 21, 20255 min read


What If the Life You’ve Built Isn’t Yours?
In my conversation with Marni — a transformational coach, speaker, and author of Your Radical Living Challenge — we explored what it means to radically reimagine your life, especially in midlife. From letting go of ego-based “needs” to experimenting with new ways of living, from rebuilding her business with soul to reinventing her marriage through shared values, Marni walked us through the deeply personal (and often uncomfortable) process of aligning with what truly matters.

StevenMiyao
Apr 14, 20255 min read


Navigating Economic Uncertainty: For anyone in their 40s or 50s wondering what comes next in their career
If you're in your mid-40s or 50s, this moment may feel like an unraveling. The stock market is plummeting, chipping away at the nest egg you

StevenMiyao
Apr 7, 20257 min read


Unemployed and Winning: Why Losing Your Job Might Be the Best Thing That Happens to You
“Some days you feel like you’ll have four competing offers. Other days you’re crying, convinced you’ll never work again.” – Raina Rusnak There’s something profoundly disorienting about losing your job. It disrupts your rhythm, your routine, and, often, your sense of identity. But here’s the thing — as hard as it is to believe in the moment, unemployment can also spur you to some of the most meaningful growth in your life. Recently, I spoke with Raina Rusnak — strategist, mou

StevenMiyao
Apr 1, 20254 min read


Feeling Stuck in Your Career? Here’s How to Move Forward with Confidence
You know that feeling—the nagging sense that something isn’t quite right at work. Maybe you wake up dreading your job or stopped feeling cha

StevenMiyao
Mar 18, 20254 min read
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