🌟 Enjoy a special preview of this month's call replay! We're sharing a clip from our opening conversation on mapping your personal energy cycles and why the calendar you're using might be working against you. If you're not already a paid subscriber, consider upgrading to access the full recording and be part of upcoming sessions.
Thank you to everyone who joined our May Monthly Momentum Call!
There is a moment in May where you start to feel it. The rhythm that carried you through spring begins to shift. Energy changes, the summer stretches out ahead, and the months to come look and feel different from the ones behind you. (And for those of you in the southern hemisphere, the same is true as you move into winter and your own seasonal shift takes hold.)
This month, we explored what it actually looks like to plan around your own seasonal energy rather than defaulting to a calendar that wasn’t designed with you in mind. Our OpTempo Wheel worksheet was built for teams, but it turns out it’s just as useful for mapping the natural rhythms of your own year. Plotting your energy across 12 months makes the patterns hard to ignore, and might have you asking the same question it raised for us:
What if your planning year started when your energy peaks, not when the calendar says to?
Here are some of the other topics we explored this month:
Timing a creative relaunch around life transitions: How to think about when to restart a project you’ve been sitting on, when major life transitions are already asking a lot of you
Re-engaging event registrants: What to put in pre-event emails to remind people who signed up for free why showing up is worth their time
Project clarity when working with a consultant: What to do when outside advice keeps shifting your plan, and how to figure out who’s actually driving the project
Building a local audience through connections rather than content: Why starting with super connectors may matter more than scaling a content calendar before your message is dialed in
Protecting creative work from being co-opted: How to think about trust when sharing ideas publicly, and what the real risk of obscurity costs compared to the fear of someone running with your work
A thread that ran through nearly every conversation this month: the importance of getting clear on what you’re actually trying to accomplish before you dive headlong into a project. Whether the question was about relaunching a podcast, re-engaging event attendees, or building a local audience, the move that mattered most was calibrating your goals to your actual capacity first, and then building your plan from there.
New This Summer: Hands-On Workshops to Put the Tools to Work
Over the coming months, we’re planning a series of pop-up workshops designed to get you actually using the tools, worksheets, and frameworks we’ve built over the years. Less theory, more doing. Our first one will focus on the OpTempo Wheel, a chance to work through your own energy map with guidance and community. These workshops will be open to all paid subscribers, and we’ll be sharing details soon. If you’d like to join us for these workshops and put these tools to work, consider upgrading your subscription.
Our next Monthly Momentum Call will be on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
Premium subscribers can watch the full recording and find the session highlights below, along with all the resources mentioned throughout the call. 👇🏽
