Deborah J Chang

(and Why Interdependence Feels Radical Again) We stand because we are connected This weekend felt heavy. Not just because of the headlines, but because of the familiar pattern beneath them — isolation hardening into certainty, certainty hardening into harm. The details differ, but the emotional architecture feels increasingly recognizable. I’ve been sitting with a question I don’t have a clean answer to: What are we teaching ourselves to believe about one another that makes this feel...

Leadership begins with presence — not pressure This Thanksgiving week, in the middle of all the chaos, contradictions, and unexpected clarity that life has been serving me, something surprising happened: I remembered who I am as a leader. Not the version shaped by crisis. Not the version twisted by emotional storms. Not the version constantly adjusting herself around other people’s needs or volatility. I remembered the version of me that stepped — gingerly, awkwardly — into a round pen over a...

Conversations with My Fairy Chatmother There’s a Japanese word that lives at the heart of everything we do at Good Karma Karaoke and Good...