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I was asking a client today when the last time she felt the most alive. When had she last jumped out of bed with enthusiasm, excited...

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

My purpose is to encourage the light within leaders to shine brighter. Yet, for so many of us, the feedback and evaluation process does...

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...

As much as I love stories, the hero’s journey narrative arc never really felt like it was quite the right fit for me. Too...

“What might integrated leadership look like for me?” That’s what one of the people who joined our women’s leadership retreat recently...

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...

This year, rather than setting a goal, creating a vision board, or making a New Years resolution, consider choosing a single word to...

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

Imagination is a powerful thing. It can reduce stress. It can help achieve your goals. It can allow you to escape reality for a time and...

If you haven’t read the original story about my phone being stolen, you may wish to read Part 1 of Ode to Being Phoneless first. Quick...

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...

I had a dinner table conversation with my daughter yesterday. My husband and I were talking about spending $5,000 on the kids’ education....

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...