How you show up shapes what your team can do. Presence, energy, fear and the stories we tell ourselves.
As soon as I got on the call, I could tell that she wasn’t herself. When we worked together, her creativity and openness to new ideas made her unstoppable. Today she seemed smaller. 2026 has been a good year, and yet she sees storm clouds on the horizon. “Nothing is coming easy this year, and…
Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to hear Steve Chandler talk live for 3 days. I just can’t stop thinking about one of the stories he told, so I’m sharing it with you. He said: I wrote a play. The only problem with the play is that it only lasts one minute. So it’s not marketable….
“You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don’t care what happens. If you don’t care, you’ve won.” — Felix Dennis I learned this lesson when I had the chance to sell to the same prospect twice. The first time, a mutual contact vouched for her as he introduced us. “She is perfect for what…
Lately, I’ve been living in more gratitude. It could be that I’m reading less news, getting more coaching, and getting outside, but I’ve noticed it showing up everywhere: in my family, my work, my community, even the way my pets want to hang out with me. Over that same time period, my business has been…
For about 5 years I was a solo parent of 3 school aged kids. During that same period I was starting my consulting business. It was a busy time! I spent a tremendous percentage of my of time feeling like I was behind, under resourced, and generally failing. This was not a situation that cultivates…
Is the drive to achieve a powerful motivator for you? If so, it’s likely been a positive force in your life–that drive, along with grit and hard work, has likely brought you acclaim and success. But, I’ll bet that no matter how hard you work, or how much you’ve achieved, you’re still pushing for more….
Imagine we live in a world where everyone wears glasses that have a particular distorting effect. When you wear the glasses, your senses notice only the positive in what others have or do and diminish what you have or do. Through those glasses, my experience would be: What would it be like to live with…
I was heads down developing workshop content for a client’s team meeting. I had the outline open, the cursor was blinking, and I was stuck. I knew what I wanted to do, but the structure wasn’t coming together. The longer I stared at it, the more my mind started to wander, and before I knew…
I spent two hours the other morning struggling to write a single email. I made two different starts. Neither of them felt right. As the deadline for sending it loomed, my frustration and anger rose, further clouding my thinking. My natural instinct in those moments is to bear down. To push harder, forcing the words…
When I was about 11, my parents took my sister and me skiing for the first time. They weren’t skiers, but they wanted us to have the experience. We spent a day in lessons, and by the next afternoon, we were practicing turns on the bunny slope. Right at the bottom of that slope stood…