What if the uncertainty and discomfort you've been avoiding is actually essential to your vitality and your health?

That's the idea I couldn't stop thinking about on my morning walk around Boston. And then I found the research that backs it up.

In this Walk With Me episode, I share what psychologists call vitality — that state of being energized, resilient, and fully alive — and the science that shows the most direct path to it isn't comfort or stability. It's doing things that are genuinely challenging and uncertain.

(NOTE: I was walking too fast and did not name one of the scientists whose research on vitality I referred to. His name is Moshe Bar -- you can learn more about him and his work here.)

This one will completely reframe how you think about the change and stress you're navigating right now.

Your dare: the next time change brings stress and doubt, don't take it as a signal something is wrong. Ask yourself — what is this change inviting me to do in order to grow and evolve?

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What if the riskiest thing you can do isn't starting something new but standing still?

At 24, my husband Avi and I launched a publishing company from a 600-square-foot illegal sublet in New York City.

We both had full-time jobs, zero publishing experience, and one idea I came home with after jury duty. We called it NataviGuides, competed with the biggest publishing houses in the world, and figured out everything — printing, distribution, sales — as we went.

In this conversation, Avi and I look back 25 years later at what that audacious, messy, wonderful adventure actually taught us.

About starting before you feel ready, building something hard inside a marriage, knowing when it's time to let go, and why the person you become by doing the hard thing matters more than any outcome.

If you've been sitting on an idea waiting for the right moment, the right plan, or enough experience, this episode is your reminder to stop waiting and start moving.

Your dare this week: What's one "unreasonable" idea you've been dismissing? Identify one step toward it and take it today.

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Fear isn't a stop sign. It's your brain doing exactly what it's designed to do.

And once you understand why it shows up every single time you're on the threshold of something new, you stop letting it run the show.

In this first Walk With Me episode — an unedited, unfiltered series recorded live on Nataly's morning walks — she gets into how your brain works as a prediction machine, why breaking a pattern triggers fear every single time, and how to give your brain something powerful enough to move toward instead of just away from the unknown.

The real signal you're looking for isn't fearlessness. It's the magic combination of scared and excited — and once you know how to use it as your inner compass, everything changes.

Your dare this week: tell yourself the truth about the one thing that keeps quietly pulling at you — the thing you've been dismissing because of fear or doubt. And if it's scary and excited? Take one tiny step toward it.

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