What I'm doing now
I'm telling stories, and I'm working on AI content and product development. The center of it is my Substack, Tita Gwen | Roots & Curls: personal stories and second-act advice.
The Substack
Tita Gwen | Roots & Curls
Personal stories from the Filipino and Black diaspora, and second-act advice.
My Hawaiian friends have a term for it: talk story. That is what I do here.
What the stories are about
Tell your own story
Three ideas run through every story I tell and everything I make.
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Tell your own story.
A job title, a resume or a role will tell your story for you if you let it. Don't. It's your story to tell. A second act begins when you decide what to keep, what to retire and what comes next.
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Calm is a practice.
Calm does not arrive when life quiets down. I practice it daily, most of all when work is loud. After 30-plus years across academia and corporate, I trust steady over frantic.
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Let purpose lead.
Busy and useful are different things. Before I take something on, I ask what it is for and who it serves. The pace and the plan follow from the answer.
I work these ideas out in the stories. The tools put them to use.
The tools
Calm Creator Life
Calm Creator Life is where I make tools you can use to get unstuck.
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The Unstuck series
Journals for working your way out of a stuck place. The first is Unstuck in the Garden, a fall letting-go journal.
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The Bulletproof Calm Toolkit
A toolkit that helps working professionals thrive in challenging work environments.
AI content and product development
Alongside the storytelling, I work on AI automation, AI-assisted content and product development.