I have spent my whole career learning what it takes to adapt. Then I had to prove it.
I did not set out to be an entrepreneur. I set out to be an environmental scientist. To study living systems, understand how they survive disruption, and help communities prepare for a world that was already changing faster than most people wanted to admit. I worked across hydro, nuclear, solar, transportation, and infrastructure projects locally and internationally. Climate resilience was not an abstract concept to me.
I was good at it. I was also good at performing everything else that came with it. Overachiever. Always moving, always performing, always showing up for everyone else. My identity was built on what I could produce and who I could be for other people. I did not think twice about that until everything stopped.
Chronic illness exposed it all at once. The career momentum, the sense of self, the version of me I had spent years constructing. I spent months looking for the external fix. The right doctor. The right answer. The thing that would return me to who I was before. It did not come.
So I stopped looking outward and started looking inward. At who I actually was underneath all of it. What I valued. What I believed. The parts of myself I had never stopped to examine, including the parts I did not always like. That was where everything changed.
What I found did not surprise me as a scientist. It just surprised me as a person.
Living systems do not recover by going back to what they were. Forests after a fire. Coastlines after a storm. Communities after collapse. They adapt, reorganize around what is still standing, and become more resilient because of the disruption, not in spite of it. I had spent a decade studying patterns in ecosystems and communities. I just never expected to live it myself.
Years of hard questions turned into a process. That process became The Solstice Network, a space for women ready to find out who they are underneath everything life has required of them.
The same forces that dismantled my identity are dismantling communities, industries, and entire ways of living. Climate change is not just an environmental crisis. It is a disruption to how people understand themselves.
I had been watching that same disruption play out in my professional work for years. After years of working in the environmental and climate space, I kept running into the same thing. Organizations and communities would spend time and money building frameworks, writing plans, hiring the right people, and still nothing would move them meaningfully closer to their climate goals. I completed my Master of Climate Change and dedicated my thesis to understanding why. The answer kept pointing to the same place. Not the science and not necessarily the funding, but to the human and structural barriers that are harder to name and rarely get addressed directly. Knowledge and information gaps, political will, social equity, and governance. These are the things that keep good intentions from becoming real results.
That research became Eccentric Ninety.
E90 works with organizations, municipalities, NGOs, and community groups to close the gap between climate intention and action by addressing the specific barriers getting in the way of their sector.
So I built two entry points into it. Because I have lived both sides of this. The woman who had to rebuild her sense of self from scratch and the scientist who spent a decade watching communities and organizations struggle to adapt to a changing world.
These are not two separate problems. When people connect to themselves, the world around them starts to matter. That is where adaptation begins and where resilience gets built. That is why both of these exist.
WHERE DO YOU WANT TO START?
I am a woman ready to figure out who she is underneath the roles and titles
You have spent a long time being good at what everyone needed you to be. The Solstice Method is the process I built to help you find out who you actually are underneath all of it.
I'm an organization interested in helping my community lead from within
People are navigating more change than any job description or podcast has prepared them for. The ones who handle it well, know who they are when things get hard.
I'm here for the climate training and education
The gap between climate intention and climate action rarely comes down to bad strategy. It comes down to the human and structural barriers sitting underneath it. I work with organizations, municipalities, NGOs, and community groups through training, workshops, and keynotes built around the specific barriers getting in the way.
I want to explore how identity and climate connect.
These two things live together because the disconnection underneath them is the same. I design custom workshops and experiences built specifically around what your community or organization needs.
Kylie Paul
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