https://www.vanessainn.com/home daily 1.0 2026-08-13 https://www.vanessainn.com/vanessa-inn-talks daily 0.75 2026-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec091dbdfef5d1e25cc8ca4/150baae5-1b1a-4de7-9e8c-3c5149245edb/IMG_8599.jpeg Talks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vanessainn.com/contact-vanessa-inn daily 0.75 2026-08-06 https://www.vanessainn.com/essential-conversations daily 0.75 2026-07-30 https://www.vanessainn.com/about-vanessa-inn daily 0.75 2026-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec091dbdfef5d1e25cc8ca4/589b0e6e-193b-48f7-bc06-2601be1145a6/IMG_6870+%281%29.jpeg About Vanessa Inn - About Vanessa I think of myself as a dual citizen of two worlds: the sharp, messy practicality of everyday life and the vast, unseen mystery of what lies beyond it. When I was five years old, I nearly drowned in a lake and had a near-death experience. I came away from it with a knowing I couldn’t have explained then: that beneath the life we can see is something larger—an underlying reality of profound Love, connection, and goodness. Then I went back to being five. I grew up. I fell in love. I became a mother. I built a career. I made mistakes. I experienced extraordinary joy and devastating loss. And I learned, as we all do, that knowing something deeply and knowing how to live it are two very different things. For more than 45 years, I’ve had the extraordinary privilege of sitting with people in the middle of their own lives. More than 40,000 conversations have taken me into the places where being human gets real: love and work, fear and courage, relationships and endings, ambition and meaning, creativity and loss. I’ve worked with people from many different walks of life—from those building careers on the world stage to those whose lives unfold far from the public eye. The circumstances may be very different. The human questions underneath them rarely are. People come to me when something hurts or isn’t working. But they also come because they want something—to create extraordinary work, build a meaningful career, deepen a relationship, make a difficult choice, take a risk, or bring something into the world that matters deeply to them. My work has always lived in both places: pain and desire, healing and ambition, loss and creation. After all these years, people still fascinate me. So does life. I love dogs and trees and oceans. I adore my grandsons. I love a conversation that goes somewhere neither person expected. I love the moment someone sees something differently and suddenly has more room to move. I’ve lived through profound grief without losing my love of being here. I’m still surprised by beauty. I’m still curious about mystery. And I still believe there is a part of each of us that has never stopped belonging to love. How I Work My work has never been based on a formula. I listen closely—to the problem someone brings me, certainly, but also to what may be underneath it. I ask questions. I challenge when challenge is useful. I pay attention to what someone may already know but hasn’t quite been able to hear. Sometimes the work is about healing or letting go. Sometimes it’s about getting very clear about what you want and finding the courage to go after it. Often, it’s both. I’m interested in what makes us come alive—and in how we live what we know in the middle of this wonderfully messy business of being human. That curiosity has taken me from decades of private conversations to talks, public conversations, gatherings, and now to my writing and Coming Home. The work of a lifetime is not becoming someone else. It’s becoming more yourself. — Vanessa Explore My Work Coming Home A weekly letter and conversation about the messy, beautiful work of being human—and remembering what matters most. Explore Coming Home → Essential Conversations Ten intimate conversations about the questions underneath our lives. Watch the Series → Talks & Conversations Selected talks and conversations, including TEDx, my conversation with P!NK, the Greater Good Science Center, and more. Watch & Listen →