Jun 12 2022
May 29 2022
Getting Back to Busy - How to Manage Post-Pandemic Overwhelm
For my creative colleagues, the ease in restrictions is glorious, but now calendars are filling up. I imagine it's not just the arts industry that's experiencing a sudden boom.
Add to that the family and friends who are making summer…
May 22 2022
How the Arts Take DEI to the Next Level
This past weekend, I attended a statewide arts conference. Like most creatives, I spent the majority of the past two years in professional isolation, trying to make the best of the situation but ultimately falling short because the arts are…
Read moreMay 9 2022
When Tension Gets Out of Control - 3 Ways to DeStress
When personalities collide or the latest disaster hits the news-cycle,
the physical tension can be almost unbearable.
All the self care in the world can't seem to stop the emotional response of some trauma. It doesn't mean you're not taking…
May 2 2022
Accepting Feedback - 4 Ways to Make the Most Out of Criticism
We've all been there...our egos get bruised from feedback (solicited or unsolicited) and we feel the need to either defend ourselves or hide away and lick our wounds. In fact, a recent study by Tasha Eurich showed that even those…
Read moreApr 25 2022
Why a Predictable Character Matters – 3 Reasons for Consistency in Leadership
In a pedagogy class, the professor told us it was good to keep students off balance, that it was a positive if they didn't know where they stood with you. This was the opposite of what I found to be…
Read moreApr 11 2022
Self-Care: Four Ways in Which Mindset Matters
Being an overachiever was my M.O. in my early adult years. Graves disease and back problems forced me to prioritize self-care in my thirties, but it wasn't easy. I was devastated that I wasn't able to work full-time and do…
Read moreMar 28 2022
Five Life Lessons I've Learned Through Managing Chronic Pain
I've been managing chronic pain for over twelve years. Although I've found strategies and a health support team to increase my mobility and decrease the pain over this time, I'd given up on finding any answers as to why.
I…
Mar 22 2022
Recovering from the Great Resignation - What Your Team Needs
I'm constantly having conversations with professionals as an aspect of my coaching business, and what I'm hearing over and over again from people in their fifties, sixties, and even forties is that they are just wanting to retire. Some are…
Read moreMar 14 2022
Ubuntu and Inspirational Leadership
I use the African word ubuntu to help my clients who have trouble asking for help
to realize that they've already received an endless amount of support already
and that their journey to success is not theirs alone, but a…
Mar 7 2022
Four Ways to Help a Stressed-Out Team Focus
Friends and clients are confiding in me that it's incredibly challenging to focus right now. That should be no surprise to leaders everywhere as we've maneuvered two years of "unprecedented" times with the pandemic and its workplace, political, and societal…
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