Work With Carmen
Tending the Sacred Thread: From metrics to mycelium—reclaiming the deeper reason we do this work.

Lately, I’ve been tangled in the weeds—strategy, structure, timelines, metrics, spreadsheets.
All the unsexy bits of the work I do.
Necessary, yes—but rarely nourishing.

Between my role as a Fractional CMO and the behind-the-scenes effort of birthing a new vision, I’ve been spending more time inside Go...

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This Is Not Starting Over. This Is the Sacred Spiral. A love note to those who keep circling back to their truth.

I keep thinking I’ve lost the thread.

I sit down to write, and nothing comes.
Not the vision, not the clarity, not the spark.
Just this quiet ache in my chest—the familiar hum of you should be further along.

It’s easy to believe I’ve failed myself. Again.
That I’m circling the same place for the hund...

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Have I missed my greening? When Creativity Slows and the Spirit Goes Underground

I came to the Hudson River on retreat—because I was feeling a little lost. My ideas had slowed. My spark had dimmed. I didn’t know what was next—for myself, or for my business.

I’m in a season of transition. And I needed time to rest, to dream, to remember who I am beneath the doing.

The Lenape ca...

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We have forgotten, haven't we? Let it rot. Let it root. Let it begin again.

but they forgot to mention
dirt is where the mycelium sings.
where seeds dream in the dark.
where god got on her knees and played.
where our ancestors buried their prayers
and still listen
with their mouths open
for the moans of the living.
— christopher sexton

We have forgotten, haven’t we?

Forgotten...

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Listening is the Strategy: A new way to grow a business—rooted in reverence, not performance

In my last piece, I shared the story of an eagle I encountered on the side of the road—regal, still, standing over a bed of carrion. She appeared as an omen for March, carrying a message in a form I hadn’t expected: increase your capacity for abundance.

But what she offered wasn’t inspiration wrapp...

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What a Dead Possum Taught Me About Prosperity (yes, really)

The most important data doesn’t come from strategy or spreadsheets. It comes from the shimmer of something you almost ignored.

“This vigor that hugs the world—it is warm, it is moistening, it is firm, it is greening.”
—Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard called it viriditasgreening power. A sacred v...

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