We recently had April Fools and it sparked my thinking about how our brains can play tricks on us. One headline I read two days after April 1st was something about Vail Resorts banning the sale of alcohol at all of its 19 properties. My first reaction was, “Really!...

https://youtu.be/vBTttWKWh2s There’s a quote attributed to Dick Cavet that says “It’s the rare person who wants to hear what they don’t want to hear.” So the question I ask myself is, how do you get people who don’t want to hear,...

I’m enjoying Adam Grant’s book, Think Again. Among the many things I learned was a fun insight that might alleviate some of the Impostor Syndrome attacks that I hear about from so many of my colleagues, and that I encounter myself! Grant talks in his book about some...

I’m betting that this message is evergreen, even though it’s birthed from today’s headlines – which is that Simone Biles pulled out of the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Wow. Today's message is evergreen because it has to do with being able to say no, even...

In one of our leadership coaching classes, we had a fascinating discussion about getting to the root of a client’s challenge. I had to laugh, because that same day, I joined my husband in digging a trench in our backyard so that we could lay an electrical line out to...