Mea Culpa
Did you know I’ve got a new podcast out? Yup! It’s called An Unscripted Woman and it’s available right now via SoundCloud – which means you can subscribe to it through your podcast app on your smart phone. Easy peasy. I started this as an experiment back in July this …
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Undeniable Perspective
I posted this video on my SheChanges Facebook page yesterday as a nod to my mother who celebrated her 77th birthday this week. I am who I am because of her, and yet — as the video below reveals — our stories around moving into motherhood while working in the workplace are …
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Whoopsie
I made a startling realization the other day. One that actually made me say “whoopsie” out loud – and had me kicking myself for letting it happen on my watch. The realization? I had inadvertently made the amount of money I earn the sole measure my worth. Whoopsie. And wtf! I knew better …
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Yes, And…
Earlier this summer I walked into a room at the Kripalu retreat center in the Berkshires and thought, “Oh shit…I don’t belong here.” One look around at the 108 women that had gathered for the REVEAL immersion weekend – an experience curated and led by Meggan Watterson that invited women to …
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Life In The Arena
My son and I sat on the couch last night and looked at the proof for the cover of my book. He nodded, and then got really quiet. I asked him why. “I’m afraid you’re going to get bullied.” I was speechless. His one comment touched on two raw nerves …
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Food For Thought: Your Worth
This is the latest in a video series I’m calling “Food for Thought”, where I explore a topic that seems to be really present and relevant among the women I know – which includes me. Since posting this video on my YouTube Channel last week and hearing how it’s resonated …
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My Next New Thing: Food For Thought
I am always so grateful when a period of intense introspection is rewarded by a sudden burst of inspiration. Argh…BOOM! Ahhhhh…. YES! It so good to get to the other side after walking over hot coals (which to be clear, means having myself sit still, “do” nothing, blow shit off, …
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Running Over My Rabbit. Repeatedly.
When I was in grad school, we were asked to share with the circle of thirty students in our cohort what animal best represented ourselves as a leader. Not surprisingly, as we went around this circle of bright and ambitious working-professional students, there were many fierce and classically top-of-the-food-chain animals …
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Sourcing New Stories
I’ve been playing around with the idea of our stories as a source – and how the things we tell ourselves ABOUT ourselves can guide us…but only up to a point. My most recent thought about this is that around mid-life, our stories start to run out of gas…we reach …
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Small Mirrors
This past Mother’s Day, my littlest son crawled into bed with me in the morning with a big grin, ready to finally give me the gift he’d been waiting a six-year-old’s version of forever to give me.In the days leading up to this big moment, he’d tried on multiple occasions …
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