Markley Dylen Albano

There’s a Latin phrase that I keep coming back to: Nemo dat quod non habet. It means “You cannot give what you do not have.” And maybe that’s where love begins. With you. So many of us grow up with the idea that love is something to find. That somewhere out there is someone who […]

There are a lot of things you can be in life—talented, lucky, connected, even brilliant. But grit? That’s the one that really sticks. Grit is what shows up when talent isn’t enough, when things get messy, and when finishing what you started feels harder than ever. We hear a lot about setting goals, chasing dreams,

You are not late, not early… you’re right on time I used to think changing careers meant I messed something up. That I didn’t stick it out long enough. That I couldn’t “figure it out.” But the truth is, people change. What we want changes. What we’re good at evolves. And deciding to shift direction

There’s a strange kind of peace that comes from letting people do what they want. I used to spend so much energy managing expectations—trying to be liked, trying to prove I was capable, trying to control how others saw me. It’s exhausting. Freelancing and travel taught me that the more you move through the world,

Some people think intelligence is a gift. I’ve started to believe it’s also a curse. Not in the dramatic, tortured-genius way. But in the slow, creeping awareness that the more you understand the world, the more it starts to look… unnecessary. At least in the way we’re told to live it. We weren’t built to