A few weeks after the pandemic first broke out in March, a freaked out colleague asked me “how are you so centered? Aren’t you worried about the ‘unknowns’ coming in the next few months?” Don’t worry, this isn’t a self-congratulatory vanity show. Keep reading, this is about YOU. See, her business took a few hits when the pandemic started. Her in-person event had to be rescheduled and she lost money. Some clients, in a fear reaction, dropped out of her signature program, which made her revenue dip even more. And things “easy” to sell pre-pandemic, no longer are. As a result, she went into: Hoarding mode. Money she’d planned on investing in herself and her leadership suddenly got re-routed towards …

Have you ever opened up a mysterious letter only to find out you had some massive bill that you didn’t even realize was accruing? Or hired someone for what you thought would be a certain price, only to be surprised with a huge bill later?  While you may not have had these EXACT situations happen to you, I’m sure you know what it feels like to be blindsided with hidden, astronomical costs. And there’s something you’re doing right now that’s racking up quite the bill. And you’re not even aware of it.  Last week I was talking to a 1:1 client and we both kept high fiving each other through the screen.The transformation she’s undergone in the last year we’ve …

For as long as I’ve had a business, I’ve repeatedly heard a particular thing from people who choose to work with me: “You used to trigger me so much, but for some reason I stayed following you. Now I realize it’s because back then I wasn’t ready to face my stuff. Now I am.”  Then they sign up to work with me. Funny enough, those are usually my BEST clients. If I had a dollar for every time someone has said this to me… Growing up in a dictatorship, I learned quickly what it does to your soul to have your freedom of speech taken away. And I saw with my own eyes what happens when people don’t speak up …

Two years ago I wrote a post that went viral, “When the world is dying, do this”.  One thing you notice when you’re working with people on their capacity for over a decade is the world goes through cycles. And the cycles repeat until we learn our lessons and wake up to the blindspots we’ve been pushing aside. You may have noticed this when the pandemic started and then when the necessary, global upheaval over George Floyd’s murder: capacity dilemmas you’d been able to ignore became unignorable. This year has torn away all the hiding places and lifted all the veils.  It is demanding radical self-honesty, deep inner work and more integrity from leaders than ever before. You simply can’t …

Is it just me or have you seen some really strange and “out of left field” behavior coming out of people lately?  Scratch that. I know it’s not me. It’s something I keep hearing from everyone.  I’ve also seen some people who I thought were pretty stable and solid-at-the-core get REALLY thrown off their balance and do some silly, irrational things. Making poor decisions. Obsessing about petty things. Or acting downright out of character.  A few weeks ago, I had to spend an hour on the phone calming down a normally solid client who had gotten way too wrapped up in the conspiracy theories and was really paralyzed in fear. But, hey, we’re in the middle of a global pandemic …