Amor fati…

Three weeks ago I was approached to be a guest on a podcast series launching this summer. Naturally I screamed yes before actually thinking it through (and yes I am well aware that saying yes on impulse may one day be my downfall); but I was excited about the project and downright stoked to be…

SclScn 2.0

If you follow me on Instagram, then you likely already know that I have decided to re-launch SclScn. When I initially created this site, I was just starting to figure out who I was and what would fulfill me as I navigate my way through life. This blog has been a platform for every emotion…

The art of trusting

There’s been a lot of chatter regarding my last blog post so please treat this as a continuation piece. I get it, you all have questions – Who is Mr Nike Store? Why don’t you seem to have trust issues? Let’s talk about trust (and not talk about my avoidance of the very popular question…

How would you live if you weren’t afraid?

The absence of an experience has always been my greatest fear and for most of my adult life, I’ve structured my entire belief system and justified my actions based on this fear. I defined my success through rigid, self imposed forms of measurement and felt serious anxiety whenever I felt like I was off track…

All I knew is, I never ever wanted to be average

I recently connected with a fellow Torontonian (trust me, we’re everywhere) based in the Cairo office of the company I work for and naturally we’ve been trading stories of how we ended up on this side of the world. In one of our many ramblings she shared with me that on her last day in Toronto,…