The Intentional Pursuit of Big Dreams
I am honored to have been featured by my teacher and unofficial mentor, Tara Mohr, in a recent newsletter. Sharing here and encouraging you to check out her book, Playing Big, and her incredible body of work. Also, the profile ended up illustrating what I think of as living an integrated life, or living life... Continue Reading →
What does my leadership look like when it comes to service? It’s something I am exploring in this chapter. And it’s a question I’ve seen the power of with clients, mentees and friends alike. In one sense, it’s always been at the heart of all that I do. It was a big part of my... Continue Reading →
I find I’ve been thinking a lot about boxes. The boxes we find ourselves in. The boxes we put ourselves in. The boxes our world puts us in. Not to mention, the boxes of the shoulds. Of identity. The boxes of how we’ve always seen ourselves or thought we had to be. The boxes of... Continue Reading →
Daydreams are the seeds from which all the flowers grow… After all, what is a dream but a vision? Look at any creative undertaking (in which, I would include all types of entrepreneurial ventures and building things more broadly, including building a life) and you will see that the vision (the dream) is an integral... Continue Reading →
Some days, we find ourselves adrift in a sea of “shoulds.” And “coulds.” Even a lot of “goods.” We open our phones. A book. A podcast. A conversation. And the floodgates open. So much external noise underscores what has always been true. The answer we are looking for often lies within. I was talking with... Continue Reading →
Find your people. You know the ones… The ones who bring you hope and inspiration. Comfort. Care. Encouragement. The ones who help you clarify your thinking. Shape your ideas. Believe in possibility. The ones who see and honor the real you. And you, them. This is the advice I gave my son when he started... Continue Reading →
As I took a reflective walk to start my day on Thursday morning, I was deep in ongoing thought about how to meet this moment in the world and in my life when the flap of a pair of mystical black wings and the call of crows drew my attention to the treetop just ahead.... Continue Reading →
This fall, my husband and I decided to make good on a long-deferred Some Day. Some Day, we will take our son to UCLA for a fall football weekend. My alma mater. Games were an activity I admittedly did not partake in as much as I could have while I was there. However, to me,... Continue Reading →
One of the things I have struggled with in my life and career is making space for my personal big rocks. I’m very intentional about doing so and I fare pretty well most of the time. But, even so, the end result often leaves a gap between where I am and where my heart longs... Continue Reading →
I am someone who has a hard time turning off. Whether it’s because of the systems that reinforce this, the demands that those systems create and enable or the Productivity = Value equation we have all been conditioned to believe. Or whether it’s pure inspiration and excitement. Whatever the reason, my operating system tends to... Continue Reading →