# We're back! Our summer hiatus recap

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Podcast: [Aggressively Human: For experts choosing expansion over extraction.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/aggressively-human-for-experts-choosing-expansion-over-extraction-7113678)
Published: 2026-08-06T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://aggressivelyhuman.substack.com/p/80-back-from-hiatus
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Aggressively Human went on hiatus for July, and we’re back to talk about what the break actually looked like! In this episode, we catch up on what our month off actually looked like — Jessica’s West Coast “book tour” meeting Deeper Foundations members across four cities, and Meg’s glaucoma surgery and a quieter, more foundational summer of business work. We talk about travel, illness, eye surgery, membership relaunches, and the discomfort of resting without immediately filling the space with something new — plus why a genuine pause turned out to be exactly what both the business and the podcast needed. * Why Jessica took her book on an unofficial “tour” through Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and LA * The public transit challenge: one rideshare in twelve days across four major cities * Meg’s glaucoma surgery, what a week without screen time actually looks like, and why she scheduled it for the slow season * What it actually looks like to let go of “big, hairy, ferocious projects” for a season without the business falling apart * Relaunching the Deeper Foundations membership without ever having done a formal launch sequence before * The “collective pause”: a shared sense that clients, colleagues, and the industry at large all pulled back at the same time this summer * Why reflection is the step that gets skipped in a weekly podcast cadence — and why that’s a problem worth solving * The World Cup as a rare moment of monoculture in an increasingly fractured media landscape * What “resting but not regenerating” feels like when travel and motion replace actual stillness “I think sometimes when you’re in a production content creation process, you don’t have a chance for reflection. When it comes to podcasting, because of the weekly cadence, you’re always gathering ideas, l…

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