Life is not like a sitcom, and yet it's so easy to get sucked into those worlds. The other week I was watching a Halloween episode of...

I remember the first time I was cognizant of the New Year. It was 1989 and my parents let me stay up to watch the ball drop. In my mind,...

A half-finished set of curtains hung over the window at my parent's house for over 10 years. I started them when we moved there. I was 16...

I had a client, Trixy, who was opening a cheese shop. As part of her customer discovery process, Trixy stood outside of World Market and...

It took me almost four years before I started taking myself seriously in my business. It's not that I wasn't determined. I was, and I...

A few years ago, I was bustling about my kitchen, putting clean dishes away while deep in thought. We have a sneaky cabinet that's tucked...

My creative process looks remarkably different when I'm making greeting cards than when I co-create. When I make greeting cards I work by...

I recently served on a team tasked with guiding our co-housing community through the process of choosing paint colors for the outside of...

When Lewis came to me for coaching, he was tired of being stuck in an unhealthy pattern. There were too many fires to put out at work and...

"Now let's pretend you made me a bathing suit with purple flowers." My daughter instructs me as I play with her. At different points, I...

I remember when I was in my second or third year in business. A colleague had invited me to the ten-year anniversary party of her...

In the last fourteen months, most of us have had to scrap the plans we made and refocus our efforts to meet current needs. When that...

One of the benefits of rebounding from a major illness is the self-knowledge that you can do it. That's a critical piece of your story...

If you’re well networked, It’s easy to find people that will contribute ideas to develop a strategy. There's nothing us big picture...

Growing up with a father that's bipolar and a recovering alcoholic, I learned a lot about living with big emotions and wrestling inner...

Many of my clients only used their journals for taking notes during talks, while reading books, or participating in workshops before we...

We all encounter those moments when our plans go terribly array or something unexpected (yet totally predictable in hindsight) throws a...

Journaling is a powerful practice. And research shows that journaling contributes to well-being when we use it to write about our deeper...

I knew I was going to have to reply to this email but when I received it I was so triggered that my blood was boiling and my thoughts...

In my book I wrote that “The hardest part about being a Misfit Entrepreneur isn’t building a successful business endeavor; it’s doing so...