ONE CONVERSATION
It started with one conversation.
Across more than 4,000 paint projects.
I kept meeting people who were riddle with the misery of should have known better moments that became doubt, regret, blame, and shame. In less than an hour, one conversation could clear the air, bearing what they knew, didn't know, and had to know to trust themselves and confidently do better.
Same room. Same belongings. Different world.
Eventually I wondered:
Could the same conversation work without a bucket of paint?
WITHOUT THE BUCKET
It could.
Beginning in 2008, after the market crashed, I declared myself a writer. For one full year, I wrote and interviewed more than a hundred people. They had to have the conversation with themselves first, before having it with others they believed should known better.
Again and again, when the conversation was actually had, people cleared the air by knowing together and doing better.
And on and off for the next eighteen years, I kept writing, researching, having the conversation, and trying to understand what I had discovered without the bucket of paint.
This year, I finally knew what to call it.
BURP.
Clear The Air. Know Together. Do Better.
