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Knowing Yourself in a World of Smoke & Mirrors
Do you know where your phone is right now? Have you missed any calls? Texts? Facebook messages, Snapchats, Twitter fights, Emails, Gchats… the list is endless. We’re not just “plugged in” anymore — we’re desperately clutching the plug to the wall. Because if we lose contact for one moment… we’re missing out. FOMO. 56%…
Read MoreDitching your Victim: Creating the shift from blah… to HELL YEAH!!
Get up or hit snooze? Coffee or tea? Elevator or stairs? We make hundreds of choices before we even sit down at our desks in the morning. They are so rapid-fire and subconscious, the choice is barely noticeable — only the outcome seems to matter. I don’t know about you – but there was a…
Read MoreLeadership & Séances: How trusting your inner Ouija board can ignite your possibilities
Every day — every minute in fact — we’re battered with questions. Some days can feel like the batting cages — choices, decisions, questions — speeding at you 70+ mph. You can swing, watch the ball pass you by, or take the hit. It can begin to feel like this as a leader. No matter how high you rise on…
Read MoreThe Art of Recognizing Yourself (or how to finally kick Imposter Syndrome’s ass, for good)
You’ve been waiting for it all to collapse like a house of cards. Playing a con for as long as you can remember. You’re tired. Stressed. And scared out of your mind. You work hard – harder than everyone else for sure – and yet… it never seems to be enough. Sound familiar? Self-doubt is natural. We’re not…
Read MoreThe Purple One: What Prince Taught Us about Music, Masculinity, and Legacy
I only wanted to see youLaughing in the purple rain On April 21st, we lost another icon — a transcendent being made up of stardust and porcelain and purple — who had so much to show us about ourselves. We lost Prince. As the media begins to piece apart his death with rumors and speculation,…
Read MoreThe Poisonous Apple in Leadership
Let’s journey back to simpler times: you’re six years old, watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Fairytale time. Everything was much clearer back then: black and white. Good and evil. Heroes and villains. Pretty and ugly. Right and wrong. Now zoom in on those ‘villains’ — they begin to look distressingly familiar… don’t they?…
Read MoreWhat’s Love Got to Do With It…?
Tina Turner asked it best when she sang “What’s love got to do with it?” And what does love have to do with leadership? Let’s discuss… There’s a new wave of leadership hitting our boardrooms and it isn’t concerned with a right or wrong way to lead. That ol’ rulebook? Out the window. At least…
Read MoreLeadership & Reinvention, Rockstar-Style
There are few artists — few cultural icons — who have been as influential in as many different mediums, to as many different artists, as David Bowie. An original, Bowie — who passed away January 10th — was often thought of as immortal; a superhuman life-force always on the cusp of the unknown. One of the…
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