From Grimm to Great
Ancient stories. Modern edge.
See the pattern.
Rewrite the story.
Most leaders reach a point where effort stops being the variable.
They're working. It's working. And something still isn't right.
That's not a performance problem.
That's a story problem.
The Framework
Every pattern has a name. Most people are living inside one they've never been shown.
GRIMM is where you are. GREAT is where you're going. Every edition maps the distance between them.
GRIMM
- G—Guilt
- R—Regret
- I—Indecision
- M—Mediocrity
- M—Misalignment
GREAT
- G—Growth
- R—Resilience
- E—Empathy
- A—Action
- T—Tenacity
Every edition begins in one of these states. Most readers find themselves in the first page — and their next move in the last.
Published Editions
Start where the story finds you.
Five openings. Five diagnoses. None of them polite.
Edition No. 1
Choose Yourself First — The World Follows
Cinderella waited for permission. You know how that feels.
Read on Substack →Edition No. 2
Own Your Power — Don't Rent It
Rumpelstiltskin had leverage. He just didn't know what it was worth until he lost it.
Read on Substack →Edition No. 3
Say What Others Won't
Everyone in the room knew. No one said it. That's not cowardice — it's a system.
Read on Substack →Edition No. 4
You Were Never Behind — You Were Becoming
The Ugly Duckling didn't transform. It relocated. That distinction is worth sitting with.
Read on Substack →Edition No. 5
Own the Story — Before Someone Else Writes It
The Tailor didn't wait to be believed. He wrote the story first. You know what you're waiting for.
Read on Substack →
From Grimm to Great
The Weekly Edition
One story. One pattern. One reframe you won't see coming.
Every edition takes a story you already know and shows you something inside it you missed.
A framework. A diagnosis. A question you won't be able to stop thinking about.
Published weekly. Free to start.
Have a story to share — or something you're working through?
Send a note →Coming Soon
Tools for the part of you that wants to do something with the insight.
The editions are the doorway. The tools are where the work begins.
- 01
GRIMM → GREAT Prompt Pack
Reading the pattern is one thing. Naming it in your own situation is another. AI prompts for diagnosing where you're stuck — and what the move out looks like.
- 02
Leadership Reflection Templates
The decision you're avoiding has a shape. These help you see it. Structured prompts for decisions, patterns, and the clarity you've been putting off.
- 03
Story-Based Decision Tools
The stories were designed for harder rooms than most frameworks prepare you for. Practical tools built from the stories — for leaders, teams, and the conversations that matter.
Why This Exists
This is not self-help. Good.
From Grimm to Great isn't about motivation.
It's about story recognition.
The stories were never meant to inspire you. They were meant to show you something — about power, about fear, about the patterns hiding in plain sight.
Each edition is a diagnostic. A mirror held up at an angle most leadership content won't risk.
No noise. Just old stories, told with a modern lens.
You already know what you're avoiding.
The stories just make it impossible to pretend you don't.