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5 Simple Steps to Make A Hard Conversation Easier
5 Simple Steps to Make A Hard Conversation Easier Have you realized you needed to have a difficult conversation, but find yourself making every excuse why now is never the right time? Tell me if this sounds familiar… You’ve agonized for days over the talk you...
The Power of Breath
The Power of Breath Yeah, it's a weird conscious leadership trick to ask your team members to breathe together before a meeting. But if you've ever rushed from one meeting to another (like every hour, right!), without time to go to the bathroom, you'd feel...
How 10 days in Wilderness Changed My Mornings
How 10 Days in Wilderness Changed My Mornings Every morning I opened my eyes to blue skies and the sun streaming through majestic Douglas firs. Between me, the earth, and the sky, was just a bit of translucent nylon. The wilderness woke me up to just how far my...
Catching Yourself in the Act…And What to Do Next
Catching Yourself in the Act... And What Self-Aware Conscious Leaders Do Next Face palm, cringe, and “Oh there I go again! Argh!” Congratulations! You caught yourself! You’re building your self-awareness, the key to Conscious Leadership. What you...
Sad, Angry & Scared About Current Events? Use Your Conscious Leadership Tools
I'm feeling angry, sad and scared about what's happening in the world these days. Maybe you are wondering how to talk to your team about world problems, too. No matter where you are on the org chart, you can use these conscious leadership tools to help the...
Helping Women Become Conscious Leaders (Brag a Bit!)
It's OK to brag around here. I mean that. I'm all about helping women become conscious leaders and I want to hear you shout from the rooftops! What are you proud of today? What have you overcome? Reach out to me and let me know. I want to hear about it. What's an...
This kid jumped off the cliff!
This photo was in my photo album. Turns out it's my son jumping off a cliff in Australia. Not sorry I missed it! You Can't Swim Unless You Get in the Water It's a favorite phrase of swim teachers whose reluctant students are windmilling their arms over the water. At...
Strangers know I was sobbing on the red couch…
I was sitting on the red sofa you see behind me, I said on the Zoom call. I corrected myself. Actually, I was sobbing There’s a canyon between sitting and sobbing, a vastness in how you understand me sitting on my red couch and me sobbing on the red couch. And that's...
Ahhhh, February Romance, But What About Friendship?
I've oodles of ideas for improving your romantic relationship. I've tested and written about most of them, including the Blame and Criticism Diet of 2013. (I can say with seven years of practice, that Tim and I are pretty much there.) We've been through several cycles...
One Word to Guide You Through 2021. Mine is GLOW
GLOW: A steady radiance of light or heat without flame; a strong feeling of pleasure or wellbeing. I'll be writing it on my bathroom mirror, drawing on a poster for my office, and putting it on my phone cover so I weave it into life and bring it into action each day...