I dream about a world led by sages.
Not celebrities.
Not charismatic manipulators.
Not people addicted to power.
Sages.
People whose inner development matches the scale of the responsibility they hold.
Sometimes it feels like a memory buried inside our species.
Sometimes it feels like grief.
Because I don’t know if there has ever truly been a time when humans were led by people whose sole orientation was altruism—whose guiding philosophy was:
What will be best for everyone?
What will lift the collective?
How can we care for and serve all life?
I want to believe that world is possible.
I also feel the weight of how far we seem from it.
We Live on a Planet of Enough
We live on a planet that has the resources to care for everyone.
Not hypothetically.
Not someday.
Now.
There is enough food.
Enough water.
Enough land.
Enough ingenuity.
Enough intelligence.
Enough technology.
Every human and every animal on this planet could live in good health.
Well tended to.
Abundantly.
The problem is not scarcity.
The problem is the belief in scarcity.
Somewhere along the way, we learned a story:
There isn’t enough.
You better get yours.
You better protect yourself.
You better have more than them.
That story became identity.
Identity became policy.
Policy became systems.
And ego filled the gaps.
Not capitalism.
Not socialism.
Not any single structure.
Ego.
The need to win.
The need to dominate.
The need to be superior.
The need to matter more.
I don’t experience this as a political issue.
I experience it as a consciousness issue.
Thirty Years of Watching Leadership
I have studied leadership.
Worked in leadership.
Coached leaders.
For thirty years.
I entered this work with enormous hope.
I believed that if people could understand themselves—truly see themselves, heal what they carry, and make themselves whole—they would stop inflicting pain on others.
Because:
When you hurt, you hurt people.
When you are healed, you heal people.
I still believe this is true.
What exhausts me is how little progress we seem to have made at scale.
Most people who rise into leadership are not evil.
Many are good people.
Many are also not particularly evolved people.
Their decision-making still runs through a narrow filter:
What’s best for me?
How do I protect myself?
How do I secure my position?
That has been true for hundreds of years.
What devastates me more is how many people still admire it.
Still reward it.
Still follow it.
The Seduction of Rage
Any leader who invites you to connect through fear, cruelty, or hatred is not elevating you.
You are being used.
You are a rung on a ladder.
A means to someone else’s personal ascendancy.
Leaders who activate rage are not offering freedom.
They are offering intoxication.
And we are susceptible to it because:
Peace can feel boring.
Stability can feel flat.
Harmony lacks spectacle.
We are stimulated by drama.
So even when we know better, we still consume what dysregulates us.
We still follow people who activate us instead of expand us.
That is not leadership.
That is addiction.
What Humans Actually Want
Most humans don’t want dominance.
They don’t want to rule the world.
They want:
A place to live.
People to love.
Maybe a little land.
Maybe a small apartment.
Maybe a big house.
Some rest.
Some beauty.
Some peace.
Simple.
Much of what people claim to want is inherited desire.
Someone else told them they should want it.
I have worked with many very wealthy people.
You know what happens?
They start shedding.
Houses become burdens.
Stuff becomes heavy.
They begin stripping away everything that once symbolized success.
Until what remains is simple:
Their place.
Their people.
Their animals.
Their life.
Money does not make anyone immune to mortality.
No one is promised tomorrow.
Why I Still Work With Women
Some days I wonder where to place my hope.
And then I sit with a woman who says:
This doesn’t feel right.
I could feel better than this.
I want to be better.
She is willing to look at herself.
She is willing to tell the truth.
She is willing to evolve.
When one woman heals, an entire ecosystem shifts.
Her children feel it.
Her team feels it.
Her partner feels it.
Her clients feel it.
Maybe that is the path.
Not mass enlightenment.
But cellular change.
One nervous system at a time.
A Quiet Prayer
I don’t know if we will ever be led by sages.
But I hope we become people who can recognize them.
I hope we learn to isolate the wolf instead of follow it.
I hope we remember that no one has to lose for us to win.
That freedom is not a limited resource.
That everyone is safer when everyone is free.
So maybe the work is simpler than we think:
Become a little more honest.
Become a little more self-aware.
Choose leaders who calm rather than inflame.
Choose conversations that expand rather than polarize.
And perhaps, quietly, steadily, imperfectly…
We grow ourselves into the kind of people who could live in a world led by sages.
If these words stirred something, you are not alone.
The Curious Sage is a weekly space for women who sense there is more—more depth, more truth, more interior freedom available than most leadership conversations allow.
It’s where I share contemplations, client-derived insights, and quiet questions for women who are done being told who to be and are ready to listen inward instead.
You’re warmly invited to join us.
Because becoming a sage is not a title.
It’s a remembering.
