“A solemn, sentimental celebration, Wigilia asts hours and includes twelve meatless courses, featuring mushroom soup, carp, herring, rye bread, pierogi, sauerkraut, gołąbki (cabbage rolls), honey vodka, and desserts like kołaczki.

Feeling present and connected in my body again was powerful and it made me conscious of how robotically I’d been moving through life.

Thought leadership article for Booth Magazine about the history of entrepreneurship and startups at the Chicago Booth business school at the University of Chicago.