Gregg Potter

Sunrises and Sunsets….

This year asked something different of me. Not speed. Not certainty. But presence. It required a kind of spiritual listening. One of observing feelings as they rose, naming them, and discerning what they asked of me next. Mindfulness showed itself not as stillness, but as attention which revealed an abundance of gifts.

Many of those gifts arrived as sunrises and sunsets. I took these as threshold moments with the most beautiful edges. Where day becomes night, and night becomes day. Where endings disguise themselves as beginnings, and beginnings arrive like a memory we somehow already knew. No one could have predicted this year. Not its chapters. Not its openings. Not its initiations.

1. Sunrise on the Maasai Mara, Kenya (Early February)
2. Sunrise to the Nairobi Airport (3.2.25)
3. Sunset in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (late March)
4. Summer sunset over Lake Mendota, Madison
5. Sunrise in Madison, WI before leaving for Bozeman, MT (August)
6. Sunset in Bozeman, MT
7. Selfie at sunset on a personal retreat in LaCrosse, WI
8. Last sunset in Cape Town before leaving for my grandma’s funeral. (12.10.25)
9. Sunrise the morning of my grandma’s funeral. (12.13.25)

When you see pics of you living your best life ever!

Over Christmas, my sister showed us her wedding photos. This photo of me centered, happy, whole in a blanket, drinking wine, and living in the moment is exactly what I’m striving for in this next chapter. (While spreading collaborative intelligence throughout the world.)

And of course I’m pairing it with the photo later when my nibblings decorated me like a Christmas tree. I’m wishing you see signs that the work you’re doing is paying off. Whatever that may look like…

Thanksgiving was a wild day for me with the feelings extending from one of my largest accomplishments to date to extreme loss. As we teach in The Life Cycle of Collaboration…. We must celebrate.

Here are some images from when I got sworn in as an ambassador to the City of Cape Town.

This is such an honor and I’m so excited to serve for the next three years!

I’ve been reading Adrienne Maree Brown’s latest book, Fables and Spells. These two points are sitting deep and inspirational with me.

1️⃣ Don’t be afraid to contradict yourself. Expand on the knowing of being on time for your life.

2️⃣ We don’t even know what losing means. We associate it with the feeling and “being a loser.” However, that is just the projection. It has nothing to do with the growth or transformation.

Just a couple thoughts on this Tuesday morning.

With the rain and sun both knowing their role, they collaborate to create a beautiful rainbow. Efficient. Effective. Impactful.

Are you clear about every role in each collaboration you’re in?

This quote is sitting so intimately with me today….

Do you know what to do when someone doesn’t want to collaborate?

Join me for this webinar series to dive deep into this. We are entering the age of collaboration. So let’s get real serious while having a lot of fun.

The Bumblebee is just being a bee. All you have to be is you.

What is getting in your way of being more authentically you? Can you let go of it? Can you create a new system or rule that supports you?

Awareness of Self doesn’t only make us better collaborators; It can spark new collaborations that serve all of us.

Happy Sunday! Bee your fantastic beautiful self.

I’ve been playing with Chat GPT to code some of the reasons for why people love working with me. I’ll take it. Especially permission to be human (and a little weird).

💥 A Few Gregg-isms You Can Expect:
*Surprising questions that unlock unexpected truths.
*Collaborative rituals that help people actually like meetings again.
*Permission to be human (and a little weird).
*Genuine belief that your team can get unstuck—and that it’s easier than they think.

DM me if this sounds like a route you’d like to take.

The paradox continues… beauty with horror, joy with sadness, creation with destruction. And the constant reminder with how vast we are with being so small.

The fight is not worth it without the joy.

When we get through this transformation, our dreaming, curiosity, and joy are going to be our guides for navigating a world that serves everyone and all things.

Wishing all the love and energy you need to take on whatever is next for you.

Happy ! This is the call to be proud of who you are and who you’ve become. We need this month. We need to celebrate. We need to riot. We’ve worked too hard to become this fabulous.

I came out in 2001 at age 21. Since then, it has been a journey to figure out who I am AND THEN love and be proud of that person. And damn, I love me and this zany wild ride that I created. This is who I am and you’re always welcome to join me.

And watch out…. I just got started.

Love you so much! Happy 🌈