This past week I lost my sh*t with my boys on two separate occasions. Over-tired, under-appreciated and flimsy boundaries are a tough combination to begin with… add in time pressure for me and it’s a recipe for explosion. And for disappointment. That is not how I want to show up. But was it a failure? That depends on how I look at it and how readily I can access my resilience. Resilience /rəˈzilēəns/ the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. If I tap into...
16 days ago • 8 min read
Personal growth is squishy in a lot of ways. Nonlinear, hard to explain, harder to measure and so gradual it can even be hard to notice. Its impact is felt through tiny shifts in mindset & behavior that are almost imperceptible, yet profoundly impactful. This can be tough for me. I like to measure things. My mind craves the concrete and the quantifiable. So I’ve always been drawn to (okay… maybe a little obsessed with) the idea of tracking & measuring personal growth. And while I haven't...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
As a high-performing individual with multiple non-negotiable roles (executive or founder, parent, caretaker, adult…) you function at a fairly high baseline on any given day of the week. So when external circumstances generate additional demands — whether it’s the start of the school year, the holiday season, the month when everyone in your family has a birthday, performance review or budget season, an upcoming board meeting a fundraising road show — it’s crunch time. Your baseline gets pretty...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
The next couple of weeks mark a significant transition in the lives of parents with young children everywhere: the start of a new school year. As kids brace themselves for the return of early wake-ups, enforced bedtimes & homework, parents rejoice at the resumption of structure, predictability & shared oversight. ‘Tis the season for long lists of school supplies that will barely be used, parent chat huddles over who’s in whose class this year, new expectations, responsibilities & privileges,...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
There are so many incredible, literally life-changing things that happen when we break out of our default patterns and begin to show up for ourselves in a new way. And what’s most amazing about that is these massive, transformative shifts begin with small decisions, a series of tiny changes. Personal growth has its own momentum because the impact is in the experience. When you show up for yourself you prove to yourself how good it feels to show up for yourself. And you want more of that, so...
2 months ago • 8 min read
I had the opportunity to deliver a workshop on self-sabotage & self-empowerment earlier this week to an amazing group of social impact entrepreneurs and I’m still buzzing from it. The two topics go hand-in-hand because while all of us experience the seeds of self-sabotage, we also each have the power to stop self-sabotage before it stops us. And in doing so, we build self-trust and spark self-love. Stopping self-sabotage isn’t just about unlocking your progress, it’s about reestablishing your...
3 months ago • 6 min read
Is it just me, or did the first half of this year go by in a blink and also feel like a lifetime? Tomorrow is the first day of Q3 and 2H — a marker of time that invites you to zoom out and look forward, to calibrate expectations, evaluate systems, celebrate progress check-in with existing goals reconstruct and define new ones & set yourself up for success in the back half of the year. It doesn’t matter what goal you set, as long as you’re setting goals. The simple act of setting goals has a...
3 months ago • 9 min read
Happy Father’s Day to all who are celebrating! I’m writing today from Asheville, NC while solo-roadtripping my boys & the pup from Miami to their sleepaway camp near the Canadian border. Their dad flew up to camp on Tuesday for training as he’ll be joining the camp staff this summer. Definitely missing my co-pilot / co-parent and they're missing their dad big time. But we're making the most of it here in the mountains, with my dad. My father is an embodiment of the American Dream, the...
4 months ago • 5 min read
One of the hardest things about being a parent is watching our kids get in their own way. Whether they’re being overly perfectionist and destroying draft after draft of an already-lovely card for grandma while spiraling deeper into self-defeat, or talking themselves out of any hope of performing at their best in an upcoming game, weaving a self-fulfilling prophecy right before your eyes or they’re crashing and burning from trying way too hard to make new friends, reinforcing their internal...
4 months ago • 7 min read