This is one way to connect with your board

Is your team having a hard time? Are you? Are you wondering why going through the day-to-day just seems to be hard these days? Maybe it’s ambiguous loss. Lately I’ve been reading about and talking about ambiguous loss. What is that? According to Psychology Today, “While we’re trying to find ways to soothe ourselves and each […]
What I learned from one year of staying home

How was 2022 radically different? I spent one year staying home. It was radically different for me. While people attended conferences all over the country in 2022, I stayed still. When my family invited me to a giant party for my grandparents 90th, I had to say no. When people asked me to do in-person speaking […]
It’s ok if you don’t feel like working

If you don’t feel like working right now, you are not alone. This tiktok makes me hopeful that we'll end capitalism in our lifetime. pic.twitter.com/hlErP41m9Z — Black Midwife (@SassyE) January 28, 2023 This time of year in the northern hemisphere feels right to go inside, to feel, a dreaming time. How can you respect seasonal […]
9 Best Books of 2022

I read a lot. These are my 9 best books of 2022. And I’ll also give you a list of my favorite podcast episodes of this year, and also the books I haven’t gotten around to reading yet, but which are next on my list! Books I’m glad I read this year: 1. Rest is […]
My mistakes of 2022

Let’s get ready for a big slice of humble pie. My mistakes of 2022 are… so face-palm. I’ll go first, shall I? FIRST MISTAKE! I forgot to do this post for the last 3 years! OMG! I was pretty good about doing my mistakes posts for nearly every year til 2019. I think the last […]
Anger is a gift

I went out with someone recently who said, “I’m not angry” and said it a couple times when talking about their family, and I thought, “Oh you are definitely angry” And when the subject came up again, they admitted they were angry, but they didn’t want to be angry, because they felt anger was a […]