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As I enjoyed my family over Thanksgiving, I encountered what Brené Brown calls “foreboding joy.”  We were in the middle of having Thanksgiving dinner, and I was looking at my children with such gratitude and appreciation. But then in the middle of this joy I had a sense...

“You have cancer.”  When the doctor spoke these words, I froze. I heard the doctors talking, but I could not understand what they were saying.  I felt my husband and sister with me, but I could not see them. Everything around me was fuzzy. After about 5 minutes of total and...

“Sometimes we choose our challenges. And, sometimes, challenges choose us.” Mark Pollock.

Challenges can be in all shapes and sizes.  They can impact us physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  They can take the form of a bad boss, a toxic work environment, a health...

When I run into a friend on the street or at work, and I ask them how they are, the answer is usually ”Busy.”  When was the last time you ran into someone who said: “I am fabulous?”

In today’s society, being busy is both an addiction and a medal of honor....

I am a women

I am a mom and wife

I work in the world of HR technology

I love to write and blog

I fought cancer

And I say “I am sorry” way too much at work.

I say it all the time.  I noticed it this week when I disagreed with something a leader said.  I started out...

Finding a career that allows us to feel happy, satisfied, and gives us purpose is not easy.  

It is not something we were taught in school or corporate training programs.

The reality is, many of us feel a disconnection between our work and how we feel.  We are just slightly out of...

I am a former perfectionist.

What's wrong with being perfect? Who doesn’t love submitting a project with zero mistakes, getting a perfect grade, being the ‘lead’ on projects, and having a perfectly clean home. The first 40 years of my life I focused on everything being...

As product managers, our days can be challenging. We have many different stakeholders to please.  We are iterating, learning, and influencing others. Our super powers come from the pure joy we have with innovating.  To do this, we need to have grit and be mentally strong. How can we be...

Every once in a while, when you listen, you hear the thundering roar of women standing in their authentic power, bringing their whole self to work, demanding that they are paid what they are worth, working together to leverage each person’s strengths, and enjoying every single...

As we finish out the 4th of July week, I started to consider what is ‘freedom’ when it comes to the workplace. Fundamentally, it comes down to embracing our humanity at work and being able to bring our true self to work.  The organization of the future is one that must...