I dislike the cold, and even though I live in California, I can say that I have never enjoyed cold weather. For a long time, I put myself in a situation that didn’t make my life more enjoyable during that season: I didn’t turn on the heat. We sometimes make choices that cause us unnecessary […]
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Vulnerability in Leadership: Navigating the Feedback Journey
Whether it’s at home or in the workplace, we are all leading different aspects of our lives. One of the responsibilities of a leader is to provide feedback, which takes a lot of courage and is very vulnerable. In this week’s episode, I talk about what you need to bring into the room as a […]
Grow Your Self-Awareness: Being
There was a time in my life when I felt a lot of shame about how I lived day-to-day and had many judgments about what was supposed to be, instead of examining why it was this way. Oftentimes, we have an all-or-nothing mindset that makes us believe that if we can’t make a full change […]
Grow Your Self-Awareness: Emotions
Last week, I discussed how to grow self-awareness through mindset. On today’s episode, we look at emotions. While we are all emotional beings, some of us don’t have a language for emotions or maybe we’ve been told that emotions are weak. One thing you can do to grow your self-awareness is to learn the language […]
Grow Your Self-Awareness: Mindset
Some of our beliefs are shaped by what our parents have told us, by our family origins, or by something we pick up culturally or in a television show. Our beliefs guide us into thinking in a way that is not necessarily aligned with our true mindset. They can also make us do what we […]
How to decide what can & can’t be dropped
At this point in the turn of the year, there is a lot of messaging about what we can do to live better in the new year to come. As high achievers, we have the expectation that we can continuously add to our list. What we don’t consider is that if we add something, we […]
Birthday Learnings + Unlearnings
High-performers often have a habit of putting themselves last. I know this because I’ve lived this. So, this year for my birthday, I am committed to putting myself first for the next 30 years. Birthdays provide us with time to reflect and cultivate clarity. I’ve found the more that I can be clear about my […]