Nourishment for the mind and heart. Essays, interviews and unexpected connections between story, culture, business and the inner life, explored with curiosity and generosity of intent.
The Mettā View is a weekly newsletter, and audio companion, for the curious and open-minded. I write about story, identity, mindful leadership and the work of seeing yourself and your ideas more clearly. Each edition weaves essays, spoken-word reflections, curated links and meditations, think business brain and inner work in the same place. For thoughtful, intellectually curious people navigating reinvention, visibility and self-expression. Even if you’ve never thought of yourself as the “mindful” type.
Where Anne explores the stories we inherit, tell and come to believe, and how those rooted in our values can resonate far beyond the rooms in which they're told.
Finding the values woven through our stories, and how they help us tell stories that resonate.
The small, deliberate ways we bring our beliefs into everyday life.
The art of bringing ideas to life, finding the right people and creating the conditions for meaningful work to flourish.
A space to explore the author inside the word, and learn to reauthor the stories we inherit, the ones we believe and the ones we tell ourselves, to (re)discover our creative agency.
Paying attention to our inner lives, to others, and to the world with greater care.
How we make ourselves understood, connect with others and help ideas find resonance.
On the imagination, courage and resourcefulness it takes to bring an idea into the world.
Think of the Mettā View as a grand facade with varied windows, doors, and balconies even. My essays are one way in. The curated digest is another. The interviews, the meditations, the conversations, each one a different opening.
With each, I bring a particular point of view. You get to peer into each of these, see if you want to explore any of these perspectives further.
The only way to know if it’s for you is to sign up.
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Getting featured in the media isn’t luck: it’s a skill. Journalist and Pressflow co-founder Bianca Barratt (Vogue, The Sunday Times, Forbes) shows how to find the right journalists, craft a pitch that gets opened, and time your story to land. Live on Zoom, pay what you can.
Many women composers were celebrated in their day, then disappeared from history. After hosting soprano and Les Inoubliables founder Amelia Feuer at my salon, I found myself asking what it takes for a story to be remembered, and what we lose when it isn't.
A Substack notification, an empty inbox, and the discovery that my favourite writers hadn't stopped writing: their essays had stopped reaching me. On enshittification, the small decisions that reveal a company's values, and the choices that reveal ours.
From a French saying my father used to deliver whenever I failed to make my point, to my brother, aged two, pulling at the tablecloth because nobody understood him. And what I eventually learned about what happens when we stop listening to ourselves.
Sometimes a story about who we are becomes so familiar we can no longer see beyond it. On changing where we look from, self-access, writing and what becomes visible when we take a step back.
No one can ever see the whole of another person. But perhaps understanding was never the goal. An essay on perspective, communication and what it means to be truly seen.
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The Mettā View brings together Anne V Mühlethaler's essays, interviews and audio explorations in one editorial home.
At its heart is a fascination with stories: the ones we inherit, the ones we tell about ourselves and the world, and the influence they have on what we believe, how we communicate and what we make possible.
Its explorations move between identity, values, culture, creativity, business, technology and the future of work. Along the way, it asks what it means to know what we stand for, to own our narrative, and to communicate in ways that genuinely resonate with others.
These questions also run through Anne's work on Story of You, her forthcoming Authored project, and her approach to resonant communication.
Expect long-form essays, interviews, curated discoveries, spoken-word reflections and occasional guided meditations. Sometimes practical, sometimes philosophical, often following a thread somewhere unexpected.
To read, listen to and return to in your own time.
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