Don’t Play it Small
You may or may not know that when I am not engaged in my day job of coaching and speaking, I am an actress. Yep. I am privileged to be part of the acting company of an award-winning regional playhouse. In our most recent production, I play the leading lady. This particular director conducts his [...]
Life Lessons For Us All From Andrew Luck…
On Saturday night, Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Andrew Luck, announced his retirement from professional football stating, “For the last four years or so, I’ve been in this cycle of injury, pain, rehab — injury, pain rehab. I’ve been stuck in this process. The only way I see out is to no longer play football. I haven’t [...]
Red Rain Boots
I LOVE my red rain boots. I wear them often on walks in the woods of my small Kentucky farm. I especially love tromping in the creek in them. Creek tromping takes me back to my childhood when summers meant being barefoot from morning til night playing in small streams, catching salamanders and playing tricks [...]
The Green-eyed Monster
Have you ever been jealous? I mean soooo jealous you cried your mascara off? (Okay, guys, uh- cried until your nose ran down into your mustache?) I have. Recently. I wanted something so badly, worked so hard for it, employed every device and skill I knew to make it happen and felt like I had [...]
Lean In to Super Strong YOU!
“Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?” This is a question the folks at Gallup ® have been asking people for decades and studying the answers. For more than 40 years they have studied strengths science and positive psychology and are the global leader in strengths-based professional development and [...]
Lead In Your Own Life – Be Authentic YOU
There is a quote in my office by Brene Brown that I love. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” I don’t know about you but I find it all too easy sometimes to let the expectations of others drown out [...]