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Issue No. 8 | What if identity wasn't something you discovered, but something you ordered from a menu? A bizarre writing prompt became a story about an Identity Café—and unexpectedly, a reflection on the roles we perform, the shortcuts we chase, and why some parts of becoming can't be optimized. Plus: Olive Garden parmesan, Grey's Anatomy, and why it's okay to say "when."

You’re sitting across from the interviewer when they open with “Tell me about yourself.” All of a sudden, your mind goes blank and you forget everything. We’ve all been there. It’s tough to have a ready-made answer that also feels genuine and off-the-cuff. Most of us default to word salad or reading off our resume. But how you answer this first question sets a tone for the rest of the interview. So, EverMore has a 4 sentence formula to help you prepare.

Create a Personal User Guide (PUG)— living document that helps others understand who you are, how you work, and what makes you unique. Whether you call it a User Guide, About Me, How I Operate, My Work Style, think of it as a cheat sheet into you—your communication, preferences, quirks, and more. It’s a shortcut for others to speak your language and understand where you may be coming from.

EverMore's reflection guide and decision-making framework for whether to stay or leave a role is available as a free resource. Get support with navigating the emotional, practical, and strategic elements of "Should I Stay or Should I Go" in a way that's wholly authentic to you, your situation, and your ideal scenario.

Issue No. 7 | Where are you willing to be The Fool? Technology has made it easy to bypass the learning process; we never have to not know. But not knowing is the first step of growth of taking a leap of faith. In tarot, The Fool walks off the cliff—trusting the journey before knowing how it ends. EverMore can meet you there, at a new beginning, to help cultivate your magic, but we’re also here for messy middles and unexpected endings.

Issue No. 6 | As bleak as this job market feels, it’s also a time for redefinition of work and life for the collective and for you. A new world will emerge—one that’s cooperative, connected, and shows reverence for the interdependence of humanity, including in the workplace. Along with it comes reimagining roles and an opportunity for Gen X and Millennials to claim the influence they were promised.

Welcome to Career Diaries: Noa Stisin spills her wisdom and career lore. From living across the globe, working in HR, becoming a mom, and starting her coaching company, Rewriting Childhood—Noa believes in order to have healthier, kinder, and more grounded leaders, we need to start by reshaping their childhood experiences and how they see children.

Issue No. 5 | Dancing on the resume's grave—The workplace and career landscape got bleak, but our tools didn't change. The career ladder and resume are long dead, but the solution won't be found in using AI to flatten people into identical tales and bullet points. Instead the opportunity belongs to the folks who can understand who they are, harness it at work, and tell the story only they can tell. It's kind of the whole point of EverMore.

Discover valuable career advice from real people at SXSW 2026. Learn how career advice can shape your journey and inspire your future.

Will AI take your job? We don’t think so, but we do think it’s being misused. AI is great at pattern recognition and being a thought partner, but it can’t create something truly novel or replace the human element. The real concern? Companies laying off workers expecting AI to fill the gap, and AI amplifying the bias already baked into our work systems. In this episode, we break down what AI is actually good at and where it falls short.

A Case Study: Before EverMore, a director was drowning in pressure, avoiding hard conversations, and carrying his team’s growth alone. Then he met Stone. This is the story of how reflection, a North Star, and an AI coach who doesn’t placate helped him shed his armor and transform his leadership style.

Issue No. 4 | Every strange thing: the hobbies you loved and abandoned, the relationships that didn't work out, the pivots that felt like failures—they come back to you. It's what makes you interesting. Also in the issue: writing your own rubric for success, using reflection for tough decisions, and reimagining performance to truly support individuals.

When individual performance falters, the answer isn’t clear-cut. It’s buried under company quirks and constraints, team dynamics, and personal realities. This manager guide walks through scenarios like role elimination, skills mismatch, overleveling, and values misalignment to unearth the considerations, traps, and answer the question—Should I coach or not? Because deciding to let someone go deserves care lest you erode a culture under the tyranny of competition and fear.

To fully understand ourselves, we have to unwind the systems that make us. That includes how performance reviews influence our futures and self-esteem. These antiquated processes stick around because the system maintains a semblance of fairness, is open to interpretation, and places the burden of proof on the less powerful party. But there's a better way to center individual, team, and company growth. So here's how we'd build a performance system from scratch.

Your career leaves clues long before it offers answers. These tools for sharing your career story act as windows into the soul, helping you articulate who you are when you’re at your best, even when that’s hard to describe. For those who feel stuck, untethered, or ready to take authorship of their career, this is an invitation to find your voice before choosing your next step.

Issue No. 3 | Getting sentimental and attracting “why not me” energy into the month of love. What if you channeled compassion inward to fall in love with your own career story—it's scars and strengths? Why it may be time to stop counting yourself out. Also included—an interview with 3x founder & CTO Scott Hertel, predictions for the future of work, and reflections for giving your career a voice.

Get to know the career story of EverMore founder and CTO, Scott Hertel. A three-time founder, Scott approaches building companies with the scientific method—testing ideas, learning quickly, and iterating with care. His story reflects a deep comfort with failure, a bias toward thoughtful experimentation, and an intentional approach to growing ethical, resilient businesses.

Issue No. 2 | Reflection renaissance—stepping back to untangle who you are from who you've been told to be. Work has a way of defining and shaping us. Reflection is the way out. Also in this issue: new year rituals, the thin line of cults and culture and why it's scary to make a company your identity, and an interview with cofounder, Kelsey Peterson.

​​A reflective guide to giving peer or manager feedback without deluding or soul-crushing others. Sort out your own biases, calibrate overly positive or overly negative takes, and find where folks thrive. Includes prompts and exercises to craft clear feedback, reduce projection, and help direct reports navigate hard notes with dignity and momentum.