I love good memes, deep conversations, curse words, and cozy socks. I collect feathers, I rewatch all seasons of Friends just about once a year, I drink borderline inappropriate amounts of sparkling water, and I am strangely good at lip reading — and can tell if someone is speaking with an accent on a muted video. I have lived in New York, St. Marten, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Colorado, Lake Tahoe, and Seattle, (to name a few) — and now, after four years of traveling through the oceans of Central and South America, I am back on land, in Maine. My pack is completed by my husband and our two English setter dogs, and when I’m not working or writing or reading, you can find me walking on the beach or in the woods, hula hooping, or learning the ukulele.

I am Taylor — a coach, writer, podcaster, filmmaker, public speaker, workshop/seminar host, and teacher. I am a sailor, nomad, philosophy nerd, consciousness explorer, and student of the world.

You may know me from my Instagram, where for nearly a decade I shared teachings, lessons, and reflections to a following of tens of thousands. Or you may know me from the podcast I’ve hosted since 2017, you may have worked with me in my signature coaching program, STA.

Or you might know me from Substack, where I write newsletters and essays on slow living, creativity, stillness, embodiment, community, and technology. Or, your might be new to me and my work. A brief introduction to what I do:

I’m Taylor Gage, a coach, entrepreneur, and creative. My public facing work has always mirrored my inner life, passions, and path.

The earliest iteration of this space was a blog launched in 2012 about beginning strength training for women, and finding a nutritional and holistic path to wellbeing that differed from the mainstream American guidelines, born from my own transition from a decade-long pack-a-day smoker and drinker/partier into the world of physical health.

Over the last decade my focus has slowly evolved inward from physical wellbeing, into mental, emotional, and spiritual terrain, and for the last five years I have worked as a mindset and inner transformation coach in a business I built from scratch into a successful enterprise, before shuttering my instagram account and walking away from it all to sail around the world.

Through the insights gained from my years of work, my personal path of leaving behind a ‘successful’ life and getting rid of all my possessions to sail around the world for four years, my meditation practice, sitting retreats, and regular plant medicine journeys, it has become increasingly clear to me that the most salient experiences in this life are not some triumph of acquisition, not a place we work to arrive to, but rather a quiet place of knowing that we return to. We are enriched and awakened not when we ascend to some lofty level, but rather when we come back to the ground floor of who and what we really are.

Connection is what I study — to ourselves, to others, to the earth, to our place in the cosmos. This is what I am both learning and teaching right now, and I hope you join me.