Fire Island

This is unbelievable.

This is like going to Fire Island and trying to do anything.

No.

No, it's the land.

And during the pandemic, she just like felt bad that she was, she's like, I have so much and people are like dying.

Like, how can I be of service? She was living at her house in Fire Island just while COVID was happening and lockdown was happening in New York City.

So she went and became a volunteer firefighter, like with the fire department.

in fire island which you have to like become a real firefighter like she had to do all the training and she was out there like fighting fires in fire island she's also an emergency foster mom she fosters babies okay this a-list actress And, you know, I just think that's so remarkable.

And that's why I love telling the stories in the book.

So the book is not just like a self-help book that you're going to read and be bored.

This is unbelievable.

This is like going to Fire Island and trying to do anything.

No.

No, it's the land.

was.

This was a house on Fire Island.

Yeah.

Long Island.

go on.

Just one note about the group we've assembled, too, is that we have people who are very well established, like we have Josh Trujillo, who's doing a story about Fire Island on Labor Day, and who not only has multiple credits with Marvel and DC, but also has published books such as Washington Gay General through the traditional publication process, which made a big splash in in recent years.

And then we've also got people that have never been published in a proper book before, such as Mac McLean, a non-binary cartoonist that came to us recommended by genderqueer's Maya Kobabe.

So we are going from people who have big fan bases to people who have just moved from making comics in their basement to getting them on the page.

Today, I am joined by someone who took a 20-year career in engineering and corporate strategy, a summer in Fire Island, and a deck of tarot cards and turned it all into something entirely new.

Leah Goldman is the founder of the Intuition Strategist and the creator of Intuition Strategy, a framework that brings what she calls invisible data into leadership and decision making.

She spent two decades as a strategy consultant, a transformation leader, and an internal change maker inside a major tech company, she was always the one running toward the hardest problems, leading the biggest teams, building the newest things.

And then she was laid off.

The second time, instead of putting the pieces back together, she said, add me to the list.

She signed up for a writing class, spent a month reading on Fire Island, and started selling three-card tarot readings next to her daughter's friendship bracelet stand.

What she discovered there, that corporate leaders were lining up for clarity they couldn't get anywhere else, became the seed of intuition strategy.

Today, Leah advises executives and organizations on how to integrate that invisible data, the intuitive signals that algorithms can't measure, into strategies they feel genuinely confident in.