Are you willing to let go of your attachments to everything that you are not in order to become everything that you are?

This question isn't just thought-provoking—it's a powerful call to action for personal transformation. Today, I share a deeply personal journey of letting go. It’s a story that asks us to weigh our values and consider what really matters.

From Scarcity to Abundance: A Personal Journey

At 34, I was a single mother and barely paying my bills every month. The nanny I hired agr...

Understanding and aligning with your core values is a critical step in achieving personal growth and success. Core values are the fundamental beliefs that guide our behaviors, decisions, and interactions. When we are clear about what we value most, we can live more authentic lives and make choices that bring us closer to our true selves and our goals.

What Are Core Values?

Core values are the principles that you hold most dear, guiding your actions and serving as a compass in both your persona...

Introduction

There are many reasons that we get caught up in the day-to-day and forget to think about where we’re heading. Maybe we're too busy just getting stuff done. Or perhaps we're too distracted to sit with an intention for our life. It could be that we don't have a vision and don't know where to start, so we keep going on the path we're on. It could also be that too many people in our life need us not to change. So many women I work with come to coaching because they are asking, "is this...

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action in college admissions, leading business leaders to ask whether their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts could be interpreted as unlawful.

Following the ruling, at least one US senator sent threatening letters to hundreds of private employers warning them that certain diversity practices could subject them costly litigation.

And other companies are already being sued over policies they have enacted on social issues such a...

I was all set to take my first vacation in nearly a year - a trip to South America that had been planned for months. Then I got Covid (again).

With the trip canceled, I spent the next two days under the duvet watching two seasons of the
toxic masculinity that is Succession. As I emerged from the fog of Covid (and that show), I decided to create the restoration I needed with the rest of my time. Even if it was from home.

And it got me thinking about the importance of staycations. We would do we...

It’s that time of year again where many of us engage in some reflection, and we coaches have many exercises to choose from in helping us think about who we are and who we want to become. One I’ve been thinking about this week is reframing your story. Because as the novelist John Barth said, “the story of your life is not your life, it’s your story.”

In this exercise we think of a challenge or a challenging period in our lives that we survived. We consider what skills we relied upon and how they s...

As companies around the globe make the difficult decision to lay off a percentage of their workforce, they are faced with another challenge: how to help the remaining employees feel safe in their jobs. The problem becomes even more acute when senior leaders find themselves with less time to spend with their employees as they hustle to fill the gaps created by layoffs, revise strategy, protect their existing customer base, and double down on their solid revenue streams.

Employees who have survive...

If you’re working in tech, there is a chance that you or someone you know has been hit by the recent reductions in force. More than 45,000 U.S. tech employees were let go from their jobs in November 2022, according to data published on the website Layoffs. Twitter, Meta and Amazon accounted for nearly 25,000 of those jobs lost, and Forbes reports that layoffs at Google could surpass 10,000 employees by early 2023.

This is not good news for tech employees, and even worse news for women and for t...

Over the past fifteen years, I’ve been coaching women at some of the best professional services firms and the most exciting tech companies.  I’m privileged to hear women’s stories about their ambition for their careers and their organizations; yet, I remain challenged by the lack of female leadership at the top and their struggles to navigate the path to promotion.  

The first thing I tell them is this.  

“It’s not your fault”.  The system failed you by forcing you  to compete with men while p...