How To Travel Lighter—and Live Honestly
One of my clients began her week with a moment so wretched, she had to laugh. Like so many of us, she had made it to the holiday season on a low tank of gas, sputtering into her driveway after a rugged home stretch of the year, having driven on …
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The Answer to Every Question
Sometimes I think the answer to every question is this: Music. How do I get unstuck? Music. How do I know what I want? Music. How will I know which way to go? Music. Why does it matter? Music. What do I wear? Music. What’s happening to me? Music. How …
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Why Elevator Pitches Aren’t for Me
The thing is, I hate elevators. I just do. That might be a random way to start, but that one realization struck me right between the eyes this week and you know why? I’ve never had an elevator pitch. And truth be told I’ve always felt some shame about it, …
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How Sadness Can Move You Forward
Grief has found me and I’m trying to ignore it. I’m back from the trip of a lifetime—an EPIC adventure with my family to Scandinavia that we’d been planning and looking forward to for months. Now it’s over and I feel like I can’t complain because who does that after …
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Don’t Know What You Want? Read This.
12 years ago I had this deeply embarrassing moment. It was unsightly, unseemly, shameful… AND it was a turning point in my life—one that plugged me back into one of my favorite things ever. Bottom line: I was super jealous—like green-eyed monster jealous—of one of my friends. Let’s call her …
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What To Do if You’re Stuck in the Muck of Transition
How do you know where to go if you can’t see where you are? This is the question that really lives at the heart of my work with clients. It’s also the question I spend 99% of my own time as I live my way into that answer. I’m popping …
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How to live—and lead—in the mess
I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to lead in transition. Indeed, what we now call “hard” would have been deemed “impossible” even two short years ago—pre-pandemic. Most of my 1:1 clients are senior leaders in organizations and are at the helm, steering across vast oceans with what feels …
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Calling in the Women
There was a moment in my life nearly nineteen years ago when I struggled to believe something seemingly natural—and as old as time—was even possible. “Struggle” is putting it delicately, actually. It was full-on doubt…a hair away from resignation. I was in the throes of delivering my first son and …
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How to Make a Move When You’re Terrified
Watching my dog is so helpful sometimes. This morning I watched our dog, Max, make his way EVER so slowly down the stairs. He gave a slightly anxious exhale at the top, and then—one step, by one step, by one step—he made his way down, low and tight to the …
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The Difference Between Change and Transition
“Lael helps people to be brave.” A kindergarten teacher once introduced me to her class with these words and twenty-five pairs of little eyes looked up at me from the circle carpet like Big Bird had just walked into a henhouse. To be honest, teenagers are more my jam, but …
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