On the heels of an intense weeklong mastermind retreat with my mentor, I was ambling along the Atlantic coast deep in thought when suddenly I felt the strong pull of the ocean beneath my feet. I’d started out at the water’s edge, just where the salty water gently lapped over my toes, but I became so lost in thought that I didn’t notice a shift in the water… read more
In the earlier, more naive days of my corporate career, I used to think brute force was the way to get things done. I mistakenly thought I had to bulldoze a path to get ahead in a male-dominated company and industry. At the time, it seemed like a natural continuation of my childhood belief that exerting power over others was the way to progress in… read more
When we react immediately to something with, "I don't like this," it's a flashing neon sign of a potential opportunity to grow because such a reaction often is borne of an aversion to being stretched in new ways, literally and figuratively. My personal trainer recently was teaching me a new exercise that I found awkward and challenging, and I told him, "I don't like this,"… read more
