Step Into Freedom

I'm sitting in Kalkan, Türkiye, a coastal town so beautiful it almost distracts you from the work that has to get done before your tourist visa expires in June.

Almost.

This morning, before most people in my timezone had made coffee…

I want to close this series the way I try to close every significant chapter of my life: with clarity about what it actually meant.

What connects all of it is a single process. I'm calling it The Great Unlearning — and it is the most important work I've done in my life, more than any business I've built or visa I've applied for or country I've navigated.

I didn't arrive at this point quickly.

My first dark night of the soul was in 2005. By 2012, when my mother passed, I had been wanting to leave the United States for years. I just hadn't built the infrastructure to do it yet.

Then 2020 happened.