When Lauryn Hill asked, “How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?” in “Doo Wop (That Thing),”  she was speaking to something deeper than success. So much of our lives revolves around achieving—securing the dream job, building a family, buying a home. We all want to win. But I’m learning that winning isn’t limited to just what’s tangible.  Sometimes winning looks like doing the inner work: seeking God, going to therapy, choosing discipline over comfort, or finally bookin

“Ugly people just walking around with all these luxuries,” my brother said to me in a recent, lengthy conversation. No, he wasn’t referring to the physical ugliness of people. He was referencing the internal blemishes that people have inside and are quite comfortable with — sometimes unknowingly, and other times knowingly. And it got me thinking. Most of the things that we [humans] are pursuing are extrinsic. Whether it’s a new house, car, money, a promotion, traveling first

As I sit behind my laptop writing this letter of reflection exactly ten days to my 25th birthday (LOL), I have an overwhelming sense of...