I have a concrete framework to guide me throughout the year, but my plans don’t hold me hostage or create a shame spiral if I don’t accomplish them perfectly. Years ago, I abandoned the practice of making New Year’s resolutions. It didn’t work for me. Why not? Because it triggered…

A lot of high-achieving people are self-critical, fueled by a feeling of not being enough. In 2022, I decided to let that feeling go, and it turned out to be the best year yet for my business, and in many ways, for my life. …

Over the past several years, I’ve developed a toolkit of mental, emotional, and physical techniques to move you from where you don’t want to be or live, toward what you do want to be or live. I think of this as alchemy. According to Google, alchemy is “the medieval forerunner…

If you haven’t yet received feedback that you (or what you want) are… Inappropriate… Too much… Crazy… Impossible… Unthinkable… Difficult… …then I have news for you: You haven’t been dreaming, thinking, being, speaking, or acting nearly big enough. …

I entered the workforce straight from music conservatory, with only a few jobs under my belt as a waitress, private music teacher, and performer of paid gigs. I didn’t see it at the time, but those roles-server, teacher, and performer-had one thing in common: the expectations were extremely clear. …

Several of my clients know each other, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they talk about our coaching work when they get together. However, this was news to me. And it’s how I discovered a term they coined and use with each other about what it’s like to decide to…

When I was a brand new executive, I was super excited, I had tons of ideas, and I felt jazzed to dive right into the pool–to lead, leverage my experience and my strategic mind at the helm of a great organization. I went in, full-force. Immediately, I immersed myself in…

I began my grant writing career accidentally. Due to lack of staffing (sound familiar?), I was asked to take on two projects outside my primary expertise area, at my first nonprofit job in New York City. I’m proud that both projects were funded, including the organization’s first National Endowment for…

I recently collaborated with a small group of scholars from the Watson Institute at Lynn University, a social impact incubator program that is part of the university’s business school. At Watson, students “major in their mission.” Our purpose together? To prepare the class of 16 seniors for post-graduate and professional…