A focused, permission-giving conversation for people standing at a crossroads.
Remember that magic moment in elementary school when a teacher handed you a hallpass? It gave you a few coveted minutes of freedom in a day that was otherwise scripted for you. You decided how quick (or not) you walked and whether you risked a detour to peek into other classrooms. But for those precious few minutes, you decided.
Somewhere along the way, the hallpasses disappeared. We gained freedom, and also expectations and identities that slowly hardened around us. The lives we built worked…until they didn’t.
It started feeling like the calendar filled up before you could even choose what went on it. You realize it’s been years since you made a real decision. You’ve become good at something you don’t care about anymore. You have a full life but it somehow feels too small.
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had glimmers of something else. A different path. A quieter or braver version of yourself.
You find yourself scrolling at the end of the night, lingering on something but you can’t explain why. You feel an unexpected tug while you’re reading, watching TV, on a flight, or in the shower. A different version of you pops into your imagination, but you quickly shut it down because it seems too far fetched.
But your life isn’t that bad, so you keep going, even as something inside you shifts. Maybe you say to yourself:
One of the most freeing moments of my life was arriving at a writing conference and introducing myself as a writer. No explanation. No resume. Just permission to be who I said I was.
Hallpass is a one-hour conversation that offers you the same thing: a temporary release from roles and expectations so you can meet yourself honestly and decide what comes next.