110. Living A More Sustainable, Intentional, Happy Life with Sabrina Moyle

Overview

It’s easy to get caught in the loop of looking to external markers of success and constantly striving toward ever-moving goalposts of what it means to be successful.

Striving doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We can strive towards our goals and strive to improve ourselves, our relationships, and our work. But when striving towards someone else’s definition of success creates suffering in our lives, it’s time to question what and whose purpose we’re serving.

Today, I’m in conversation with the CEO of Hello!Lucky, Sabrina Moyle.

Sabrina shares her journey through founding the company with her sister, redefining success on her own terms, and the inner work she’s done to support creating a sustainable, creative, joyful life for herself and her family. We discuss finding purpose in our day-to-day and she shares valuable insight about managing time and nurturing the community around us.

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More About Our Guest

Sabrina Moyle is a writer and co-founder of Hello!Lucky, a creative studio based in San Francisco known for its letterpress greeting cards, and children's books, with her sister, illustrator Eunice Moyle. She has written over 20 humorous and inspirational books for children and adults, including the best-selling board books My Mom is Magical! and My Dad is Amazing!, as well as an illustrated inspirational guide for adults, Escargot for It: A Snail's Guide to Finding Your Own Trail & Shell-ebrating Success. Sabrina holds a BA in Art History from Swarthmore College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, three sons, and dog.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• Sabrina’s journey with her sister from childhood creative partners in crime to starting Hello!Lucky

• The underlying philosophy of bringing joy, connection, and creativity to the world that guides Sabrina’s work

• What Sabrina had to unlearn about success as her business grew and she took on new roles in her career

• The practices that Sabrina adopted in order to support redefining success in a sustainable way

• How Sabrina sees the difference between working towards your goals and striving for external markers of success

• How Sabrina defines purpose in the day-to-day

• How Sabrina considers time for herself and her employees as a flow rather than a rigid structure

Learn more about Sabrina Moyle:

• Hello!Lucky

• Instagram: @helloluckycards @helloluckykids

• Escargot for It: A Snail's Guide to Finding Your Own Trail & Shell-ebrating Success

Resources Mentioned

• John Kabat-Zinn

• The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, Daniel Markovits

• Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr

• Sacred Stream

• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Jenny Odell

• Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, Micheal Hyatt

• Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want, Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

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