After the pandemic unfolded, I ran toward more change. I don’t know why. But the pandemic putting the kibosh on my livelihood and lifestyle made it easy for me to wrap my now-empty arms around all kinds of creative opportunities that came my way.

Within a month, I had done countless livestreams, guest talks, facilitated sessions, Zoom meetings, and otherwise honed best practices. Then I wrote a workshop on those virtual best practices and taught it.

The next month, I started a podcast with my friend Lucas. Which is what happens when you quarantine a public speaker at home and give her a microphone. By summertime, I’d started a second podcast.

A month after that, I became a gamer.

A month after that, George Floyd had been murdered and lots of people woke up and suddenly the divide between my social conscience and my professional work didn’t exist anymore. After all, right is still right and wrong is still wrong, regardless of whether you’re at home or in the workplace. I think that’s what we call integrity.

Change is always happening. Some change should be resisted — the change that hurts people, puts others at risk, is morally wrong. Other change can’t be, or shouldn’t be resisted. But when change like the pandemic chooses us and we can’t loose its grip, wonderful things can happen when we allow ourselves to fully explore that new space.