Welcome to The Relay
On what brought you here, and what to do with it.
If you’re here, something brought you.
Maybe your career is working by every external measure and something still feels off. Maybe you know what you want but every time you move toward it, something pulls you back. Maybe you’ve started to wonder whether the ladder you’ve been climbing was ever actually yours.
This feels more existential than burnout. The ambition is still there. The capability is still there. The alignment isn’t.
This newsletter is for people in that particular kind of stuck. Each issue goes into one idea: the research, the questions, the specific tools that help you hear the signal again.
I’m Rebecca Silliman. I’m a therapist working in community mental health and a strategic communications consultant with over 20 years of experience. Signal Strength draws on both disciplines, and on my own experience of ignoring a signal for too long.
Start here: Why (and How) to Embrace Your Inner Bananagrams — the first issue. It introduces the concept of cog qualities: what your particular system rewards, and why confusing them with character is how people end up stuck.
If you want to start working on your own before the next issue, the Values Sort takes about ten minutes. Free: signalstrength.coach/values
Reply to any issue and tell me what brought you here. I read everything.
Rebecca