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Feedback zingers. You know the ones. Those sarcastic one liners that feel like a hunting knife straight to the heart. Or sometimes it...

Rejection. It’s a part of life and often a necessity if we want to make our way forward in this world. For instance, last spring, I was...

Have you ever felt paralyzed with fear… then motivated, passionate, and on fire… and then been forced to slow down? Freeze. Go fast. Go...

I asked my husband, Jason, “It’s the last morning of our Gap Year. Do you think we’ve changed?” Our family has just spent the past...

Do you ever feel like you’re Sisyphus – cursed by Hades, God of the Underworld, to push a boulder uphill for all eternity. After...

Since childhood I’ve suppressed, hidden, and compartmentalized negative emotions like fear, sadness, and anger… especially anger. All...

When was the last time you got to look down on your life and the world from a completely different perspective? I recently had the...

Navigating a chaotic, ever-changing, uncertain, risky, ambiguous, volatile landscape seems like standard operating procedure for many...

You know the one. There’s a “look” I got as an Asian female each time I walked into a board room full of superintendents in collared...

Email Stress The first email was sent 50 years ago. Today, it’s ever so easy for email to become a source of tremendous stress,...

Since October, I’ve been engaged in a mini-research project trying to understand the needs of the leaders I serve. I had a hunch that...

Stacking. Dysregulation. Stress. Recentering. Visions. Armor. A lot has happened since Thanksgiving. My family spent a glorious...

Modern day professionals like me rely on our phones so much. They’re so much more than a simple piece of technology. We can practically...

Do you ever get stuck on a project, with a big goal, or in life? Do you sometimes feel like you’d rather hide under a rock than do that...

Some people seem to live impossibly dreamy lives and achieve things that appear completely unreachable for us normal human beings. I’m...

2020 seemed like a dumpster fire of a year for many of us. How has this year been for you? These are the news headlines: COVID. Political...

I was about to apologize to you for not publishing a blog post in the past two months. But I won’t. Passionate leaders often find it’s...

Today the last day of school where I can still call myself a staff member at Chrysalis Charter School. This school has meant so much to...

There’s a racial reckoning in America right now. I’m the daughter of Chinese immigrants. There have been 3,795 reported hate crimes...

As educators nationwide limp towards the finish line of the most disruptive school year in living memory, educational leaders face a...