Grief Exposed the Myth of Capacity

How We Navigate Grief with Blair · Jan 16, 2026 · 6m

For most of my career, I believed leadership meant endurance. Hold more. Carry more. Push harder. Expand capacity at all costs. Work long hours. Make more money.

Then grief showed up and took that belief out back for a very humbling conversation.

Grief did not arrive quietly. It arrived as loss stacked on loss. It was a shitstorm of pain. With a calendar full of meetings and deadlines, my body wanted the floor. As a business, I had built on momentum, only to suddenly collide with a nervous system in survival mode. I was still leading workshops, signing contracts, and showing up publicly. On…