People are always coming to Nell Wulfhart with questions: Should I break up? Should I have a baby? Should I take this job? Should I adopt a dog? Should I give the dog back? “That was a couple of people, actually,” she says, speaking from her home in Montevideo, Uruguay. Wulfhart, a decision coach who previously wrote a travel column for The New York Times, left her native Philadelphia to live abroad more than two decades ago. In 2013, friends convinced her to make a business out of her knack for guiding others. Now, Wulfhart has built a successful career on the strength of a simple but powerful idea: that most seemingly indecisive people are simply looking for a permission slip to do what they really want. This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Nine Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 49 Karin Mamma Andersson Inside the moody, mysterious world of Sweden’s preeminent painter. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Jenny Odell The acclaimed author in search of lost time. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Amalie Smith The Danish arts writer finding clarity between the lines. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Ryan Heffington Meet the man bringing choreography, community and queer joy to the desert. Arts & Culture Fashion Issue 49 A World of Difference A fun lesson in cultural faux pas. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Mass Destruction “Artists are often left baffled by the fact that they have millions of monthly streams, yet only a couple of thousand followers on social media.”
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