by | | Emotional Agility, Practices for You, Resilience, Self Awareness
“Grief is a mutiny against established patterns”- Báyò Akómoláfé The Rough Ocean of Being Fully Human Over the last week, I’ve been witnessing hard things. Burnout. Exhaustion. Loss. Over the last week, I’ve been witnessing easier...
by | | Confidence, Emotional Agility, Perfectionism, Practices for You, Resilience
Hiding Weakness Me too. Honestly, it took me ages to realize how much I avoid it. How many decades I tried to bypass and ignore my weaknesses and insecurities. Camouflage or hide them by doubling down on what I was good at. Performing in ways that the...
by | | Culture Change, Practices for You, Success
How your gonna get ‘what’s next’? Feel like you need more than just clarity on where you’re going? Like the fire of action to attain your next promotion or opportunity? Ambition. Someone might say…. “you just need more ambition”. Truth-...
by | | Influence, Practices for You
For those with big hearts and a conscience, the idea of influence can feel shallow or harmful. But holding our influence as “shallow” (a dimension of power) limits skillful ways of working with our gifts and experience. As a leader of social change- we can’t get...
by | | Personal Fulfillment, Practices for You, Relationships
The Art of Being Good When I was about nine years old, I wrote a letter to God and asked, “Help me to be a nice person”. There is nothing unremarkable about that hand-drawn note. I was socialized in a culture that liked kids quiet, studious, and helpful. Women...
by | | Confidence, Conflict + Power, Navigating Uncertainty, Practices for You
The Illusion of Individualism Do you ever feel like you are in a period of So. Much. Learning? For me, it feels like a particularly potent time, 6 months into the pandemic. Themes I’m hearing from committed leaders of social change speak to interdependence,...
