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There I was, sweating my butt off on a treadmill with my arms pumping like crazy and my eyes continually scanning the screen as I watched my heart rate climb. As I adjusted my heart rate monitor, I glanced around the orange-lit room of my new place of employment just hours into my first day […]

Are you struggling to dial down the crazy in your week? Not getting things done and then beating yourself up about it? Hello and welcome to my world. I can’t tell you how many evenings have gone by where I have spent (and wasted) a lot of energy thinking about all the tasks and projects […]

We all go through phases in life where we settle for the chaos and monotony because we either accept our fate or feel selfish investing in ourselves (or both!). We may feel too busy to add one more thing to our plate at work to further our learning and value. We may feel guilty about […]

In this interview by Go Solo, I offer three key tips for anyone looking to start, run, and grow a company. I also share my entrepreneurial (and very personal!) journey going way back to 2008 when I launched my first little venture. Curious? Read the full interview here! All my best and more,

What is a personal brand? If you are like me, you feel like your “brand” changes every day (and maybe even multiple times a day). You have your professional self, parenting self, side-hustle self, bestie self, hot mess self (oh, just me?), and so on. I have spent many years of my career showing up […]

Starting something new is exciting, challenging, and maybe even scary. When we set a goal for ourselves, the thrill of the journey and vision of success can be energizing.  However, it can be overwhelming to take the first few actions towards that goal and keep the momentum going. I am experiencing this right now. Between […]

For the longest time, I never really understood what coaching was outside of the context of sports. At some points, I equated it to mentorship; other times, it sounded like therapy, and other examples sounded a bit like a mash-up of both with a bit of “woo woo” sprinkled in. My thinking was changed when […]

I woke up one morning with the insatiable itch to try something new in my professional life. I had a little voice in the back of my head that had been getting louder in recent years, and it was encouraging me to start my own business. While my heart raced with excitement about the potential […]

I don’t know about you, but each year I take some time to think about my life goals and jot them down. Generally, that turns into more of a wish-list without any action built into it. I recently took the exercise more seriously as I was at a crossroads in my career, newly married, and […]

I woke up one day and had no emails, no voice-mails, no conference calls, no projects, and no employees. I had no job. I had no identity. This is what was going through my head. After two decades of giving everything I had to climb the ladder, build my network and the companies I was […]