This year, I took the month of July off.  I believe that God and the Universe made it happen.  My clients were the people I was most concerned about impacting in my absence, but they turned out to be my most encouraging cheerleaders.  Before I chose to take a month off, the voice in my head (my ego) said: “You can’t take a month off.  Your clients will leave you.  They will believe you don’t care about them.  They will find another coach. “ My… Read More »I Took a Month Off, and Found the Key to Living my Best Life

Think you can’t do that? That is what I believed when the idea first entered my mind. My sister called to say she had finished her teaching year as she had done many times before. While I know that teachers have little flexibility during the year and need the summer off – I still felt a pang of jealousy. “I work full-time and cannot take the summer off – right?” I started to question myself when I thought that. I have worked to create freedom… Read More »Taking an Entire Month Off

Me too!  Check out one of the things I’m most embarrassed about here. Are there moments or actions you wish you could have done differently? There are definitely times like that for me. I’ve got lingering shame and guilt about some things in my past, and I suspect you might too. In this video I share one of those cringe-worthy times and the lesson that made me realize that I needed to make a change. Years ago, I was in a big job (for me)… Read More »Are there things you are embarrassed about?

The concept of Leadership has always been kind of fuzzy for me.  How do you know when you are doing it right?  Is it when team members like you, or when you reach a goal as an organization?  Is it when you handle a dispute well?  Do you have to be able to “wow” an audience to be a good leader?    I believe that Leadership is just relationships with results. In order to be the best leader you can be – you need to… Read More »How to Lead: Inside Out

As I enter Day 26 of being isolated and quarantined, I am conscious of this ‘out of control feeling’ that I am experiencing.  Most of what is happening is out of our control.  I am not an expert in how to best get through this.  I am struggling right along with you.  It is interesting that my clients are all going through the exact same thing at the same time.  I know that we are all going through this in our own ways – some… Read More »When You Can’t Control the Circumstances, What Do You Control?

I heard Deborah Tanner speak years ago about the differences in women and men. It was so intriguing to me, that years later I remember most of what she said.   One of her points was that, as little boys, men play games where the whole team wins – football, baseball, and basketball. Girls play games like teacher/student and mother/child. Girls compete in beauty pageants where only one of them can win.   It is my belief that when a woman wins the presidency of this nation,… Read More »This One is for the Girls