If Lost Start Here is a guide for the anxious, curious, lonely and lost. Featuring everyday places and at-home prompts designed to help you live a life that feels good.
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You are ... The Enlightened Extrovert
Highly motivated and self-aware, you care about the world and the role you play in it. Whether you’re rallying for a cause or celebrating the success of one of your own personal projects, you are no stranger to the spotlight. You're intelligent, tenacious, and endlessly driven.
You thrive when your professional and personal life align with your core values. Purpose-driven and committed, you’re a high achiever with a steadfast dedication to progress.
You have a love for art and culture and a keen eye for design. Your calendar is filled with meetups in interesting spaces, supporting the people and causes you care about. (Also: you know all the best restaurants.)
Your challenge? You are so connected to the world and your community, but may not be taking enough time to connect with yourself. If you have a hobby or creative project, maybe now is the time to revisit it.
Need a little push towards taking care of yourself in a new way?
Explore These Selections, Curated Just For You
A Magazine To Improve Your Life
With editorial teams in London, New York, and Los Angeles, Courier magazine is ‘the mentor you always wanted by your side’, full of inspiration, useful information, case studies, and how-tos on every aspect of running a modern business. Recommended for both the nuts-and-bolts needs and the big dreamy picture of working on a company today.
A Podcast To Improve Your Life
This award-winning podcast ranges across work into creativity and wellbeing – it’s all connected. We feel led by curiosity listening to host Emma Gannon talking to a range of guests who might not fit the natural business box. Also see, Gannon's latest book: Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World.
A Person You'll Love to Follow
When we’ve figured out our purpose, we turn to Holly Tucker’s podcast for how to make it actionable in the world. With each episode, Holly introduces us to the stories of founders, their hopes and vulnerabilities, and how they figured out how to make their business work for themselves and others. Check out episodes with David Gandy founder of Wellwear, particularly as it touches on men’s mental health, with Becky Sheraidah founder of Arthouse Unlimited on how creativity can bring value to how we see ourselves, and Fearne Cotton of Happy Place on how to live a life that better reflects who we are.
Pair with Holly’s brilliant book, which we’re currently working to implement, Do What You Love: The Empowering Secrets to Turn Your Passion into Profit.
Something We Made To Help You Through Your Day
The If Lost, Start Here Checklist
A daily checklist to help you find your way in an uncertain world.
How to Use this Information
If Lost, Starts Here takes an expansive view about how to approach our emotional and mental well-being. Our project explores Ten Key Pathways to Wellness.
As an Enlightened Extrovert, we think you'll love our Purpose Pathway. Where do can you go to find the inspiration and ideas to find your way? Here you'll find some of our starting points to connect with what makes you tick professionally.
Next, we thinking you'll love exploring Community and Connection.
If you're looking to expand to something more challenging, explore a category that feels unfamiliar, maybe for you that is Untethering, or maybe Awe and Wonder.
Who are we?
Hi, we're Claire and Amanda
(founders of online guide: If Lost, Start Here)
If Lost is a resource that combines everything we know about what people need in order to thrive, with all of the places, projects and initiatives that exist to meet those needs.
We believe that in shifting our daily lives in small ways, we have the power to transform our worlds; that strong communities make for happy individuals; that there are places in the world that can hold us, shape us, bring us back to ourselves . . . even when it feels we’ve forever lost our way.
Over are the days of navigating life alone. Let’s find our way, together.