A few years ago, I was at a leadership conference where a ton of the typical leadership platitudes were delivered, but when John Maxwell stood to remind everyone that growth was only realized through the struggle, I was triggered.
I slung a few texts like “I’m so sick of the message that the grind is the only…
The summer between third and fourth grade, my family moved from Columbus, GA, to Memphis.
After every grading period in my new school, we had to take our report cards home to be signed by our parents. I didn’t remember to get my signed, and I don’t remember it being a particularly bad report card;…
When I experience overwhelm, I feel desperate for space and solitude – the top of the mountain, the ocean, or in a forest. It’s like my body knows that physical space is the only way I can breathe again.
Yet, it's paradoxical how, during times of overwhelm, my response is to tighten up and constrict.…
“You did it again. You can never keep up with anything. You are so absent-minded.”
I had been on a 5-day work trip, coming home from the west coast on a red-eye flight.
I had just delivered an important speech that I needed to nail.
My husband had been on a trip for 14 days,…
Warning: Reference to statistics in suicides included.
As I sat down to write this week's post, my sister sent me the link to devastating yet shockingly unsurprising new research from the CDC.
The CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey is fielded every two years to high schoolers across the United States. The results from its most…
A woman's confidence is lower than a man's confidence. I’ve heard it a zillion times, and it makes sense considering the socialization of girls.
Did I have confidence issues as a child? Um yes. I was 6 feet tall in the 8th grade and stuck out like a sore thumb, I had learning challenges that…
It feels like an exceptionally hard time to be a human in general and an even harder time to show up daily as a leader. To enthusiastically guide people through cultural upheaval, economic uncertainty, and the never-ending feeling that the other shoe is always about to fall.
Middle-Managers are Done
At the end of last…
I'm about to tell you one of my LEAST favorite feelings at work…
That cringey feeling after a meeting you join when you're incredibly irritated where you leave fully understanding that you showed up unprofessionally. Maybe you didn't say much, but you sat with arms crossed, multitasking or giving vaguely judgemental looks?
It's one of…
If you think you have high self-awareness, you're probably wrong. A whopping 95% of people say they are self-aware. Still, ten research initiatives from the brilliant organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich found that only 10-15% of people actually are self-aware.
At first, this SHOCKED me as this seems like a surprisingly low number. When I think…
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If I could go back in time, the topic I WISH I had studied more is emotional intelligence. The data around its impact on career success and personal fulfillment are quite staggering, and it’s a topic that I believe is totally misunderstood.
Check out some recent data on the…