It was a few years ago and I was out for dinner with a dear friend. While I had Pho dripping down my chin – on occasion I lack class when eating in public – he looked at me and said that my steady eye contact was unnerving and intimidating, and then he laughed. I...
“If you don’t spend the time making the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with the life you don’t want.” Kevin Ngo Do you believe that your life circumstances make you who you are? Have you surrendered your dreams – or...
Have you ever had an experience where you thought you knew how you felt about something or someone, but just a single piece of information changed your point of view? I have, and I continue to experience this regularly. When someone presents a new view on a topic, how...
Currently it feels like humanity is crumbling from within and it's very values and systems are being questioned. As always, there’s immense value in restructuring systems that are no longer working, yet this constant shaming and cancelling of people, businesses and...
We are experiencing a wild explosion of justifiable pandemic exhaustion . Clearly, something isn’t working, and there’s a radical amount of finger pointing and frustration. I’m curious if we can find ways to support ourselves and each other that allow for us to move...
Four years ago I had a radical idea: I would start writing my musings and thoughts in a weekly column. I planned to share my process and curiosities, and maybe someone would find it useful or interesting. I had no formal writing training and was terrified of being...
For the last 10 years I’ve owned and run a business and for the decade prior to that I had been in management and leadership roles. Fundamentally, communication is the most important tool and skill I have and one which I continue to grow. I make it a standard to talk...
Showing Up - I often use this phrase to describe my relationship to someone or to my commitments. I use it to ask myself if I’m willing to show up for them or keep my promises. I also use it to describe how others show up for me, or make good on their promises to me....
When I first moved to my mountain town, I found that the winters were difficult. The darkness felt heavy but the snow-covered mountains brought me an enormous amount of enjoyment. It was a paradox for me, feeling both good and bad. During those days I learned to dig...
We tend to associate our own or others’ baggage as a bad thing. We often use it to describe other people, characteristically to describe why we don’t want to be close to them. Maybe this is because we associate a person with ‘baggage’ as someone who is unstable....