I want to be radically honest with you.
I’m collecting your nosiest, bluntest, curious-est, wildest (or mildest) questions. Will I regret this? 🤷♀️ Ask me in 3 months.
Tl;dr: Ask me a nosy Q.
I want to be radically honest with you.
It’s not that I haven’t been sharing my truths. It’s that I now realize that if I focus on sharing my stories more, and more loudly, that it can inspire others to do the same. And when all of us start to boldly share our truths, we’ll see positive change in our communities, because we’re focusing more on what matters.
Deep questions are my jam. 😏 And lately, as I more closely examine my own relationship with “the tough stuff,” I’ve found myself grasping for others’ stories so that I can make sense of my own.
I love following small business owners who are “building in public.” We get to see their struggles and successes with launching new services, managing clients, and forecasting finances. 💸
I love seeing athletes share the less glam sides of training for races and adventures. We get specific examples of how to juggle passion and athletics with the rest of life, and normalize when goals don’t go to plan. 😓
I love hearing people’s goals and how they craft a strategy and checkpoints to get to their desired outcomes. We get to see the spectrum of decisions around parenthood, investing, relationships, and all the other juicy stuff that’s been on my mind. 👶
So, in Q2 2025, I’m leaning hard into “Radical Honesty.”
I’m collecting your nosiest, bluntest, curious-est, wildest (or mildest) questions and answering them right here on my Substack to get in the practice of being radially honest. And to normalize openly discussing the thoughts we’re usually quiet about.
✨ Here’s the form to submit an anonymous question. ✨
Certain questions tend to pop up often when I meet new people or dig into topics with friends, and they’re often related to menstrual cycles and outdoor sports. I’d say the most “frequently asked questions” revolve around:
Donating my eggs (I did this 11 years ago and still get asked often about it!)
Training for a 100 mile run (from body stuff to food to mental toughness)
Starting businesses (my first biz was to be a birth doula… until realized that wasn’t meant for me!)
Staying organized with approx. 2 billion projects (let’s open that can of worms…)
Getting a book published (I didn’t self publish but it wasn’t a traditional process, either)
Money, grief, sexism, and changing my mind are topics also on my mind lately that I’m planning to flex my radical honesty muscle on. And also, the fun stuff, like how I managed to get like 15x more confident on skis this season! ⛷️
SO. If you’ve got a question that feels a little taboo or “too personal,” or a question that’s lighter but you want a real-life, specific look into how I came to my answer…
In the meantime, I’m going to close March out with Big Ocotillo Energy: bright, weird, scrambly, and unafraid to be a bit prickly.
See ya next week!
-Angie