Hi, I’m Sarah Peck.

I’m a writer, leadership coach, community builder, and founder of Startup Parent and The Wise Women’s Council. Across all my work, I bring interesting people together to ask deeper questions. 

How do we build meaningful lives without giving all of ourselves away to work? How do we become wiser, braver, more honest leaders? How do we make friends, build community, and create the kinds of rooms we wish existed? And what does ambition look like when we get to define it for ourselves?

I write about work, leadership, friendship, parenting, community, reinvention, creativity, and the strange experience of being a human trying to figure things out.

I’m especially interested in the messy middle: the parts that don’t fit neatly into a five-step framework. Starting over, changing your mind, or building a business while raising children. Wanting more and wanting less at the same time. Making friends as an adult. Becoming a beginner again. Learning how to listen to yourself.

I use my own life as part laboratory, part source material. I try things. I ask questions. I gather people together. I pay attention to what happens. Then I write about what I’m learning.