Here’s the thing: when you’re starting out on your own or taking on a new role, you can follow the books and blogs about how to set up and go about your business. You don’t have to, but you can.

You’ll try and fail and try and learn and try again. You’ll bump into things.

What to do when the signs were there, demanding a major change and I ignored them and explained them away.

In my change management work, I spend a lot of time talking to employees about what keeps them at their jobs and what motivates them to leave. Much like the Gallup quote above, their answer is almost unanimously leadership-related.

Have you ever wondered how the phrase "imposter syndrome" began? Understand where your feelings of self-doubt come from a little bit more.⁠

Why do you say yes when you really want to say no? What happens if you:

✨Set boundaries

✨Honor those boundaries

✨Choose yourself

With the privilege of hindsight I'm struck by those little things that hit me hardest over this last year; lessons I may not have otherwise experienced

In my 13-plus years in this field, I can share key questions that boost the likelihood of success if they're addressed in planning for change (and how they apply to coaching). So here we

Choose you. Those two simple words have stuck with me for seven months, at the front of my mind and on the tip of my tongue.

If you're feeling like making a tweak to your life, if you're looking to set some goals to help you dominate in this new year, here are four tips to help drive your success and make those goals stick

I'm curious: what are you doing to give back to yourself? How are you giving yourself the gift of transformation?

If we don't know what we're measuring as your progress towards your success, then how will we know when to celebrate?

Who are my people? What defines "my clients"?

Who do I coach? Why?

"Tell me about a time you've failed" is a trick question. Interviewers ask it to gain a sense of your ego, your ability to handle adversity, and how you rebound. But it is a trick question.

Here's the thing: you never, ever have to apologize to me for being your badass self. Ever. And I'm not sorry for that.

Where can we make little changes to how we dress (or behave, or feel) more like ourselves every day, all day? Because don't little changes become big changes when added together and given time?

If you wanted to make that leap from what you do to what you want to do, what would it take? What would you like to be when you grow up?

Why rapidly point out perceived imperfections? Why downplay our accomplishments? Why is it so scary to be brave?