The Blog
Here’s where I share thoughts on the work of moving toward our biggest lives and baddest selves.
A Rocky Part of Normal
Normal life isn’t all sunshine and unicorn toots. Normal life includes rocky parts… sometimes even downright jagged parts. The trick is noticing… and then doing something about it.
All Up in It with Rachel Winstead, finding the learnings in teaching
I remember the first time I met Rachel Winstead (she/they) in person. I was sitting in this wonderful (though now-defunct, sadly) coffee shop inside an even more wonderful art museum in Roanoke (truly, for a city our size, it’s quite a gift of an art space). The...
White Lady Safe Words: Creating more responsible connections
This was my first contribution to the online magazine, BIZCATALYST 360. Read the original post here. Safe words are a tool used by people who enjoy play-acting danger. In such scenarios, words like no, stop, or help might just be a part of the scene as the naughty...
All Up in It with Ryn Bennett, MPH
So often, people tell me they find networking to be an icky and unsettling prospect. There's something about equating it with insincerity and treating other humans as a means to an end. Ryn Bennett is a perfect example to blow that out of the water. We were introduced...
The Creative Transformation (A coaching group for humans)
You, my friend, are creative, whether you think of yourself that way or not. In this 6-month coaching group, we’ll transform your relationship with creativity so that you can let your unique shine brighten up the world!
All Up in It with Diane Wyzga
Diane Wyzga has been awe-inspiring to me from the first time I laid eyes on her on LinkedIn during the early days of the pandemic. I mean, just check out some of the lives she's lived - she's been: a US Navy nurse corporate businesswoman speaker educator lawyer...
Anxiety: The Annoying Kid of the Emotions World
If you were to think of your experiences with anxiety as though it were an annoying kid you wanted to love, how might you treat it/yourself differently?
All Up in It with Cynthia Jefferson about being better (without self-punishment)
Cynthia Jefferson is a coach and jewelry-maker, a mom and daughter, and most of all, a learning junkie who delights in raising her own bar time and again. Be inspired by what she’s all up in!
18 Months, 3 Hypotheses, and a Whole Lot of Learning
I spent 18 months in a hands-on coaching intensive – a full-time coaching job, that is – and now that I’m scaling back, I have some data around the hypotheses I had when I first said yes.
10 Years & Ever-Evolving
A decade of coaching is a little hard to wrap my head around… but the experience has grown my heart so much, that it easily groks the beauty and learning of these 10 years, and brings the excitement for what might come in the next 10!