The Efforting Trap
Yesterday at the end of a yoga class the instructor shared a sentence that made me pause. "We’ve got one body. We've got one life. Let's enjoy it."
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What your people need most: Hope and Clarity
As I guided our Inspiring Midlife Leadership cohort through another transformative session last week, I was struck by the profound wisdom emerging from these remarkable women.
I’m Done Performing for Patriarchy
I’m enjoying midlife and up until recently, I couldn’t really pinpoint why. I feel powerful, creative; my relationship with myself and my intuition has never been stronger. In a word, I feel free.
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I am noticing a theme in the incredible midlife women I am surrounded by these days. We are picking our heads up, scanning our lives and wondering ‘how did we get here’? The years have gone quickly, and there is so much more for me, I know there is. But how do I figure that out? And where to from here?
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Midlife is often portrayed in our culture as a time of decline, a season where growth slows, and possibilities narrow. I caught myself buying into this narrative as my 57th birthday approached in early January. I was feeling so much resistance to this age because I don’t want my growth to slow or opportunities to disappear.
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Your inner wisdom is calling! Will you answer?
For most of my life, I haven’t been very good at listening to my body. It’s not like I ignored it on purpose; it was more that I didn’t understand the language it was using. My body has been calling out, but I haven’t been willing to pick up. That wasn’t going so well for me.
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As I've written before in this space, on June 28, 2024, Brené Brown made an important announcement to the Dare to Lead™ facilitator community that she had sold the training rates for the program to the digital coaching company, BetterUp. (You can read my original piece on the subject here).
Since that time, there has been a great deal of hard
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I want to have conversations. Deep conversations. About the way midlife women are programmed by the world and how we navigate our mindset, our physical and emotional wellbeing, our purpose and how we show up as leaders.
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I am, at this moment, deep in the experience of navigating change. The kind of change that happens to you, not the kind you initiate.
Even though I’ve been changing things up for the past 13 years as an entrepreneur, I did all of that on purpose, eyes wide open. This time, it was unexpectedly thrown at me and that’s new territory.
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One year ago today, work and life had thoroughly kicked my butt. I was exhausted, frustrated and disappointed with how my year and business was unfolding.
Fortunately, the pattern was interrupted with a 5 day “off grid” backcountry camping trip that turned out to be the unexpected catalyst to a process of rediscovering myself.
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It was this spring when I first said those words.
I was working with a student in the executive coaching program at Royal Roads. He had just asked me, “How do you go back to the real world, into your life and everyday conversations now that you see what’s possible with a coach approach?”
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I’ll lead off with an idea split into two, see which one sticks with you. (See @Gary Vaynerchuk)
1. Bad news sells. Like rubbernecks at a fender bender, we turn our attention to the drama of others, or in the world of work perhaps we want to understand just what latest work culture phenomenon is happening to us.
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As someone who works in the area of learning and teaching, I have long been interested in how learning and productivity take place. Here’s a scenario for you to consider - Have you ever had the experience of being so drawn into distractions like trying to solve the daily Wordle or engrossed in a debate with a colleague
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I recently hosted a workshop for an organization that was reviewing their business’ values to build the foundation that they could then layer working agreements on to. As the work progressed over a number of weeks it became clear that there was a step missing between identifying the values and creating the working agreements--
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I recently read a report done in collaboration between Deloitte Canada and Auticon. This report highlights a number of barriers individuals on the autism spectrum face when it comes to obtaining and retaining employment. The study showed that 33 per cent of adults on the spectrum…
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I have always been someone who had a difficult time answering that age old question- “What do you want to be when you grow up?.” It seemed I had broad strokes of an idea, but the details were always a little fuzzy.
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One of life’s little tricks is to suck you in to the belief that what has been successful in the past will prove successful in the future. Yeah…. maybe. The irony, when it comes to leadership is that as responsibility and authority increase, the skills that served you in the past will no longer be sufficient…
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Last week I was interviewing for a graduate research assistant to help me with some research projects. One of the candidates really stood out to me, right from their resume. Clearly, a well accomplished individual with a BCom and an MBA with years of excellent work experience who had now decided to attend university in Canada and work on a graduate degree in Education.
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This week I had a client who was struggling with a difference of opinion between them and their boss. They knew they were ready for a promotion, but their boss wanted them to make a lateral move. They were feeling disempowered and stuck.
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I was not one of those people who got uber fit during the pandemic. No, I was in the camp of hustlers who were busy transitioning their business to an online model, finishing my masters and supporting my coaching clients. The consequence for me was a lot of extra sitting for two years and arriving firmly into my mid-50’s—
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