How to want more without feeling guilty for new moms: honest answers for Montpelier

For Montpelier: grateful, not finished

Ask a Montpelier reader what they're grateful for and you'll get a beautiful list. Ask what they're building and you'll get the look this whole book was written about.

And this is Montpelier: a community in the Burlington VT orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot That's why the answer can't be a slogan. It has to be lived.

🎧 A note for Montpelier readers (with audio)

“This is not a hustle book. It is not toxic positivity.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

If your life looks great and feels flat

You've become fluent in the language of 'should be grateful' — and it's crowding out 'actually am.'
Your ambition didn't die; it just stopped being invited places.
You're the most together person you know and the most quietly stuck.

The two-column dinner question

At dinner this week, ask someone you trust: 'What am I better at than I was a year ago?' Sit with the pause before they answer.
Write the pause down. The topic of the pause is your next move in Montpelier.

Your gratitude is real. So is the knock. Open both doors.

The ending that spreads

It ends with a question, not a checklist — and that question is why readers from Northeast and everywhere else keep sending each other this book instead of just recommending it.

The honest FAQ — Montpelier

Is it another hustle-culture book? The opposite. One of its most-quoted lines is literally 'This is not a hustle book.' It's about honest ambition, not grinding.

Is it available in audio? The heart of the book is read aloud on this site, and the Kindle version (free on Kindle Unlimited) is perfect for phone reading.

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