How to Grow a Business (or Anything) From Dirt
I am obsessed with women’s business models—and the feminine principles that guide them. So it’s not surprising that I’m obsessed with Growing Floret. If you don’t know what Floret is, rest assured I didn’t either until last week. But it’s one of those things that once you know it, you …
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Who Do We Choose To Be? Another Reckoning.
I was sitting on my front lawn the other day staring at the two items in my online cart—one was a book, the other was a weapon. Clearly I had chosen to purchase these at some point in time, and I was struck by their stark contrast. It felt like …
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3 Ways Dangerous Women Make Good Trouble
My nickname was “Trouble” thirty years ago. Apparently when I came on the scene, it meant something was about to happen that was going to disrupt someone’s status quo. Thirty years ago I was a director of an overnight camp in New Hampshire, which means I was one of two …
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A Flock of Women Leaders Leading
I hear these themes among my clients and I literally start to salivate. Why? Because this handful of topics I’m about to share with you under this new moon feels symbolic—like geese flying in a distinct V, they work together to point in a particular direction. What direction is that, …
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How to Lead When the Whole House Feels Upside Down
Doesn’t it feel like we are perched between two worlds right now—the one we’ve been living in and the one we want to live in? I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership these days. And if you’re wondering how I define that, it’s quite simple, actually. I’m not talking about …
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The Other Way: Women Leading with Our Full Power
When I was a little girl, I used to loll on my bed looking up at the ceiling when I was supposed to be getting ready for school. I used to wonder about things, looking up at that blank expanse of nothingness, untainted by nail holes, fingerprints, or scuff marks. …
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Daily Verse 11.30.20—The Opposite of Dangerous
This fall I started to refer to myself as “dangerous”. I don’t know that it was conscious, but it was more of a consistent mumbling I started to do out loud to those that know me well. Ordinarily outspoken and opinionated, it was like I had entered a new realm, …
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Daily Verse 11.27.20—White Womanness
I am a woman who has spent much of her professional energies in the world being a supporter and champion of women’s leadership. I’m also a woman who didn’t realize she was a woman until my early 30s and pregnant with my first child—a fact, which revealed me to myself …
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Daily Verse 11.7.20: Read My Face
My eldest son told me about the climate change countdown clock in NYC. I hadn’t heard about it—maybe because it’s not in my backyard here in Maine. Apparently, on Sept 20th of this year, the clock was set to 7 years, and is now counting down…visually demonstrating that time is limited …
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