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NOTICE MORE

A practice for the between times

For people who want more from their experiences

The time between your big experiences can often feel like you're on autopilot.

The trip itself is the easiest part. What makes an experience resonate — and keep generating new ideas long after — is the time you spend on either side of it. That's the work I design.

Use your 4,000 weeks more meaningfully.

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— a game card for five toppings. they still talk about it.

— What this is

Notice More is a one-to-one practice that designs the time around a meaningful experience.

The premise: the trip itself is the easiest part. The months of preparation that come before, and the weeks of integration that follow, are where an experience becomes durable. Most travel companies and education programs ignore those windows. Notice More is built entirely inside them.

What's included: a custom syllabus calibrated to your specific trip or project — reading, journaling, drawing, cooking, language, history. Weekly check-ins to keep the practice alive between sessions. A field kit of high-quality materials (Midori paper, Lamy pen, Caran d'Ache crayons) shipped before the work begins. After the trip, a structured debrief and the design of a bring-it-home ritual: a tasting, a dinner, a piece of art, a project.

Who runs it: Rachel, a healthcare strategist and serial hobbyist based in Atlanta, Georgia, who has been running this method on herself for a decade across slow travel, natural-leaven baking, fermentation, drawing, and Ashtanga yoga.

What it isn't: not an alumni travel program. Not a luxury tour operator. Not a group reading a book together. Not a coach. The trip is yours — booked however you book trips. The practice is the months around it.

The Method

Autopilot doesn't have to be the default. It's what you do with your time around your experiences.

Same method, different for you than for anyone else. Your between will not look like mine. The framework is what we share — the discoveries are yours alone.

— Step One

We talk.

Defining what you actually want from the experience.

You'll receive your field kit with instructions to prep you for our call. We then have a conversation about what's coming up — a trip, a milestone, a long-imagined idea. We really get into what you need from it. This is the foundation.

— Step Two

I build a syllabus.

A custom plan calibrated to your time and trip.

Reading, journaling, drawing, cooking, language, or history — pulled from off-the-shelf books and resources you can buy yourself. Calibrated to the time you actually have.

— Step Three

You do the work.

The connections are yours alone to build.

I don't do it with you. We have built-in check-ins to keep you accountable and to help you notice what's emerging. The method is mine. The discoveries are yours.

— Step Four

You arrive. We close the loop.

Conceptual help with what you bring home.

You go on your trip — or your project, or your visit. You come back. We debrief — what stayed, what surprised you. If you want to make something from it, I'll help you think it through. The making is yours.

— What this is, and isn't

This isn't an alumni trip. It isn't a luxury tour. It isn't a group of strangers reading the same book.

The trip is yours — booked however you book trips. What I do is design the practice around it: the months of preparation, the way of seeing you bring with you, the rituals that make it stay with you afterward.

Most travel evaporates within a month. This is the work that keeps it from doing that — and it's calibrated to one person, one life, one specific thing on the calendar. Not to forty people. Not to a fixed itinerary. Not to whatever the institution wants the trip to be about.

Notice More is a complement to operators like Indagare, Black Tomato, or Audley — not a replacement. They book the trip. I design the months around it.

Currently Open

Three ways in.

One-to-one engagements at three depths, calibrated to a real trip or project on your calendar.

Founding Cohort Founding rates current through the first cohort. The Foundation is currently taking three clients.
i.

The Session

Field Kit · 60 minutes · single conversation · custom starter syllabus

You receive your Field Kit with instructions. We have a single deep-dive call — for people exploring the practice or with a near-term trip. We talk about what's coming up, what you want from it, and I deliver a custom starter syllabus. No ongoing support; if you want check-ins and integration, you upgrade to The Foundation.

Includes the Field Kit — paper, pens, crayons.

$549
regular $749
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ii.

The Foundation

16 weeks · 12 weeks of prep + 4 weeks post-trip · weekly check-ins · Field Kit

The version most people start with. We work for twelve weeks before your trip — building a custom syllabus of reading, journaling, and a noticing practice tuned to where you're going. Four weeks after, we close the loop and design your bring-it-home ritual: a tasting, a dinner, an artifact.

Includes the Field Kit shipped before we begin.

$2,400
regular $3,600
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iii.

The Long Form

8 months · 6 months of prep + 8 weeks post-trip · application required

For when the trip or project is far enough out that you can go deeper — language fundamentals, broader reading, a parallel making practice. This mirrors how I prepared for a year of Japan and six months of Turkey. Best for trips 7–12 months out, sabbaticals, or any second-act transition worth that runway.

Includes the Field Kit and an optional in-person session in Atlanta.

$4,800
regular $6,800
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Experiences That Stayed

Things I made after the trip ended.

I've been doing this for friends and family for years without naming it. These are some of the artifacts the practice produced — the dinners, tastings, drawings, and collages that came home with me after the suitcases were put away.

These are mine. The practice helps you make yours.

kyoto, summer

— Kyoto Collage. Hung in the entryway.

Art / Collage · Japan · 2025

Reading In Praise of Shadows, Then Two Weeks of Gold

I read In Praise of Shadows about a month before Japan. Tanizaki is funnier than I expected. Throughout the trip I kept noticing things he'd taught me to see: how the Japanese use reflection, how they use gold, how a single low light can do what a whole bright room cannot.

It didn't stop. The gold leaf on the temples in Kyoto. The gold seams in kintsugi. My reflection in the jumble of balls at Kusama's Narcissus Garden in Naoshima. The funhouse mirror effect in the toilet at the Teshima Yokoo House. Watching (for an absurd amount of hypnotic time!) streams of water droplets reflect and merge at the Teshima Art Museum. The gold detail in paintings at the Sato Sakura Museum. That lens stays with me.

When I got back to Atlanta, I had a collage class starting and I incorporated this vein into the piece. I'd asked each of my travel companions to draw something about Japan on small watercolor cards I found at Tokyu Hands. I used our shared drawings as part of my canvas.

The one thing I couldn't put in the collage was the bouquet of geisha flowers we had in our Airbnb. The whole villa smelled of it for a week. I never took a picture. But I remember that smell and experience it again every time I walk into my house.

Food · Sicily · 2022

The Sicilian Bread That Changed My Life

A loaf I thought tasted like a health food store. The porchetta sandwich that proved me wrong, and the WhatsApp I sent the bakery the next day.

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Art / Ceramics · Lisbon · 2025

Pigeon Lady (and Why I Buy Ceramics in Other Countries)

I returned to Lisbon alone to stock up on ceramics. It rained for six hours. The photograph is a reenactment.

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Food · France & Atlanta · 2023

Bring Home the Butter (and Throw a Tasting)

A blind butter tasting with friends after a trip to France. Bordier, La Peyson, and Vermont. The "ugh" face was unanimous.

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Field Notes

Things I notice when I move between systems.

Field Notes is the appendix for the careful reader. The pieces above show what the practice produces. These pieces show what the practice looks like in operation — on me, before any client is involved.

Two scenes from two systems. A Shinkansen running every five minutes; a Santorini ferry cancelled with no plan. A Brittany boulangerie with a line down the block; a chain bakery in Atlanta with a heat lamp. The cumulative effect of trains versus parking decks. The cumulative effect of public benches versus none.

If you've worked with me, this is what we'll be debriefing when you return from your own trip.

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Frequently Asked.

The questions everyone asks before booking the call.

How is Notice More different from a tour operator?

Tour operators (Indagare, Black Tomato, Audley, Trufflepig) sell the trip itself — logistics, access, curated itineraries. Notice More does not book trips. The practice designs the months of preparation and integration around a trip you book yourself. The two are complements, not substitutes.

How is it different from an alumni travel program?

Alumni programs (Smithsonian Journeys, Stanford Travel/Study, MoMA, Road Scholar) run group trips with lectures and fixed itineraries. Notice More is one-to-one and custom, not affiliated with any institution. The depth is calibrated to one person, not forty.

Who is the practice for?

People who want more from their experiences than experiences usually give. Travelers preparing for a meaningful trip. People navigating a transition. Solo travelers in their 30s through 60s. The practice is calibrated to one person's specific life — not a demographic.

Will Rachel make the artifacts (collages, tastings, dinners) for me?

No. The practice teaches the method of noticing; the artifacts you make are yours. In the integration phase, I help you think through what to make and how to structure it — the execution is yours. Hands-on project work is outside standard scope and would be a separate engagement.

Can I do this without a trip planned?

Yes. The Foundation works equally well for projects, transitions, sabbaticals, or any milestone where the months before and after matter. The Long Form is designed specifically for sabbaticals and second-act transitions.

What if I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to 16 weeks?

Start with The Session ($549). One 60-minute call, a custom starter syllabus, and the Field Kit. If you decide to continue afterward, the Session fee credits toward The Foundation.

Where is Notice More based?

Atlanta, Georgia. The practice is delivered remotely worldwide via video calls, with optional in-person sessions for clients in The Long Form tier.

What's the refund policy?

Full refund within the first two weeks of any engagement, no questions asked. After two weeks, refunds are pro-rated based on what's been delivered.

About

"My partner once asked me what my purpose in life was. No hesitation: to learn as many things as possible."

I'm Rachel, founder of Notice More. I'm a serial hobbyist on the things that matter to me — I'll give anything a go just to see what sticks. The things that have stuck: traveling, running, yoga, cooking, drawing, collage, painting (badly, on purpose), reading, and learning about science, art, and how artists changed their thinking.

By day I work in healthcare analytics. The practice you're reading about is built on a method that uses environmental hacks, behavioral science, and neurological principles — much of which is only just being studied formally. I've been running it on myself for years.

— Facts

  • Founder Rachel
  • Founded 2026, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Practice type One-to-one custom preparation and integration practice
  • Engagements The Session ($549), The Foundation ($2,400), The Long Form ($4,800)
  • Duration 60 minutes to 8 months
  • Delivered Remotely worldwide (video), with optional in-person in Atlanta
  • Adjacent to Slow travel, intentional living, deep work, contemplative practice
  • Contact [email protected]

— Influences

Writers, thinkers, and traditions that shaped this practice:

  • Junichirō Tanizaki — In Praise of Shadows (Japanese aesthetics of attention)
  • Alain de Botton — Status Anxiety; Architecture of Happiness; Art as Therapy
  • Oliver Burkeman — Four Thousand Weeks (mortality and time)
  • Chuck Klosterman — But What If We're Wrong? (epistemic humility)
  • Gabriel García Márquez — One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • E. H. Gombrich — The Story of Art
  • Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab podcast (behavioral protocols)
  • David Runciman — Past, Present, Future podcast

If something here resonates, the next step is a short call.

Twenty minutes. No pitch, no pressure. We'll talk about what's coming up for you and whether the practice is the right fit. If it isn't, I'll tell you.

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Three founding-rate Foundation seats currently open. Sessions booking through next month.