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Defining the Essence of You
Your brand is what makes the essence of you tangible to the world around you. It’s what you’re known for. It’s how you speak, how you act, and what you stand for. But it also goes deeper…
Drop Your Ego & Discover Your Purpose
“I want to find my purpose!” From CEOs to rising Gen Zs, this desire has been at the heart of almost all of my client discussions over the past year. There seems to be a driving, collective shift in…
Seeking Stillness to Find the Answers
Let’s embrace the New Year as a blank canvas and a clean slate. To do that we have to release the past, accept what is, and reduce the stress that can cloud our realm of possibility. You may feel…
Exhaustion to Excitement: Who Are You Becoming?
As I write this, I’m in New York City, sitting in my cozy apartment and soaking up the buzz and excitement that I can hear from the streets below. This time last year, all of the neighborhood stores…
How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Gratitude — we’re surrounded by the concept every day. Hashtags on Instagram, an “I’m so blessed” overheard at the grocery store, society telling us to “be grateful for what you have.” We’re even…
Playing with Conflict
When conflicts arise in our relationships at home and at work, they are almost always pointing to something trying to shift, something trying to happen. Too often our discomfort with conflict creates…
Can You Change Your Stripes?
Behavioral change is one of the greatest challenges we face in the attempt to reach our potential. My work as a transformational coach is centered around helping strong-willed adults and leaders…
Navigating the Return of FOMO
Anxiety. Mine has been bad lately. Chest heavy angst like something is not quite right, like something might go wrong, like I’m not quite good enough. This kind of anxiety is isolating, the kind you…
The Truth About Lies
Lies… Studies show that men and women lie about 30 percent of the time in any given week, and up to one fifth of our social interactions are moderately to severely deceitful. Lying is proven to cause…
Pursuing Interdependence
The blue book… It still sits in an old drawer in my childhood home. Line after line of the money I still owe my mother for everything from candy to clothes to gas for the car. She tracked every penny…
Finding Your Clarity
Several months prior to the onset of the pandemic, I started to become conscious of some emerging signals of stagnation in my work. Lower energy, scattered focus, and distraction that resulted in…
Tapping into the Power of Nature
Close your eyes and imagine sitting near a cold, clear river. Imagine the sound of the flowing water, and spend a full minute listening to it. Now imagine you’re plunging into a fresh, salty ocean…
Women Trailblazers
How fortunate we are to have so many trailblazing women in our midst — women who break free from societal molds and forge radical paths for themselves, kicking tradition & convention to the curb. So…
Creating True Belonging
Belonging is a primal, innate human yearning — it drives our urge to create social connections, develop relationships, and form communities. In our homes, in our workplaces, in our networks both…
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