I knew that I could do more I was hit with a question I wasn’t expecting during a meeting Friday afternoon.A meeting about the need for leadership training in the financial sector went a different direction when, after I described the community that I live in, I was asked:“Are you concerned about your kids not […]
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“What the heck are we doing?!” Have you had this happen?When you do something purely on instinct and then your rational/logical brain catches up and yells at you “WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?? ”.Someone captured that very moment a few weeks ago while I was speaking at a conference in Cleveland. And because vulnerability
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On Shifting Perspective What if I’m wrong?What if I’m doing something not because it is the right thing to do, but because I BELIEVE it is the right thing to do?Are you willing to turn around and look at something from another perspective?It is when we refuse to consider the possibility that we could be
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September is Suicide Prevention Month “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up- so what?”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditation 7.7 The most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome at the
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My Humbling Moment I haven’t shared this story with you before…But after being asked to Chair the March of Dimes fundraiser this fall, an organization that is actively working on reducing the racial and income disparity in healthcare for mothers and babies and addressing implicit bias- I felt that it was time to share.When I
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Meeting Our Emotions With Curiosity I felt myself getting pissed off.Part of me wanted to take the anger and run with it.The Stoic in me won out.Not because it caused me to shove down my emotions. That’s not what Stoicism teaches.It won out because I got curious instead of angry.I called Finn over and told
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An Ode To My Father Always hug your dad. There was a stretch of time when I was a teen that I barely spoke to my dad. I wrote earlier this week about how much shame I felt when I got out of the hospital for anorexia. That silence and shame is what led to
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Champion Others Don’t be a team of bittersweet.From sports to medical to corporate – I have run into team after team made up of bittersweet. And very few made up of champions.Yesterday, I ended up butt down in a shallow creek after tripping over a vine while clearing out the heavy brush in the timber.
A Urgent Message to Coaches and Parents Dear Coaches and Parents,Your athletes, your children are hurting.Let’s start doing something about it now instead of waiting for the next headline of an athlete taking their life, and hoping it won’t be one of yours.Athletes are told over and over that they have to be mentally tough.To
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Fighting Shame Shame…we all deal with it- so let’s talk about it.There’s no shame in box cake.And for most of you reading this, that statement is a no brainer. But to some, getting caught baking from a box would cause shame to come running. Shame tells them that baking from a box you aren’t a