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Hi, I’m Shelby. You’ve found my internet home!

10-second bio:

I’ve been on an unconventional journey for the last 10 years to get to where I am. Every year of my life since 2012, I’ve taken at least one big risk which has drastically altered my path.

In the last year alone, I’ve updated my identity with the following endeavors:

  • Head of Community at an early-stage startup.
  • Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming and certified coach.
  • Most recently, I’ve become a wife and a mom.

I’m an experimenter, making regular habits out of trying something new and changing my mind.

Noteworthy experiments:

  • 2012: Skipping college to cofound a personal development company with friends [FAILED]
  • 2016:Taking a year off social media at age 21 [SUCCESS]
    • BONUS: I quit Instagram and Facebook cold turkey in 2020 and haven’t looked back.
  • 2017-18: Moving to two different South American countries by myself without knowing anyone there [SUCCESS]
  • 2021: Taking a year off drinking with a goal to meditate, walk 5K steps, and do yoga every day [FAILED]
  • 2021: Quitting my job to take a sabbatical without a backup plan [SUCCESS]
  • 2021: Moving to an island to live with someone I just met [SUCCESS]

You can read about many more in my articles.

Whether I failed (did not achieve what I initially set out to do) or succeeded in my experiments, they’re ultimately all successes. They’ve led me to the next endeavor, the next opportunity, and the right people.

You’ve found my online home, where I share my thinking.

Themes in my writing:

In addition to publishing my writing on this website, I’m writing about the science of hypnosis here.

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