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Visionaries and Implementers
Prefer audio? - LISTEN HERE If you would like to grow your Brilliance-Based® team, division, or small company, I highly recommend you read Traction by Gino Wickman. Wickman guides organizations of 5-10+ people to gain financial traction by scaling to become much...
Spaciousness and Yin for the Win
If you know me well, you know I have long-struggled with overdoing. (By “long”, I mean half a century or so. I still remember when I was in kindergarten, hesitant to ask a high school student for help using scissors). My lifelong journey is about learning to 1)...
Beauty can follow a storm
Happy August! The kids and I are off to Maine soon to enjoy beach time with my aunt, uncle and cousins. This trip will be an excellent follow-up to our family gathering ten days ago in Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, I had the extraordinary opportunity to officiate...
Buying a Car Doesn’t Have to Feel Like a Crisis
Prefer audio? - LISTEN HERE Today I want to share the story of how I recently identified and successfully negotiated for my new car. It's something I was feeling pretty nervous about ahead of time, and I was really happy with the outcome. I want to share my...
Lessons from Difficult Conversations at CVS
Difficult conversations are happening all over the place, all day, every day. I’m so grateful I know how to have them with confidence. Otherwise, each one would be even more time-consuming and frustrating. Too often lately, I face difficult conversations with CVS...
Gobsmacked
Five years ago, I became conscious of a deep-seated expectation I’d been holding for myself, to be a high-earning, healthy, present mom. At various points in my career I had separately met each of these self-imposed criteria. Why, I wondered in 2016, was I not...
The 4 Gs In Action
My long-time friend and former client Devra recently forwarded me a special email she wrote to a 12-year-old preparing to celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah. This young woman has spent her life with a medically fragile sibling and the occasional crises that brings....
Room to Roam
This morning I took time out from my schedule to text one of my clients. She's an excellent leader - at the hospital where she's a Division Chief, at home where she has a husband and 3 kids, in her medical research, and in her community. The COVID pandemic has...
It’s Official!
In late June 2019 I announced a radical reinvention of my work ahead. During the first two decades of Connect2 Corporation, as my life and work continued, my purpose evolved and deepened. The challenges I faced and the experiences I had in these past few years...
Over-Adulting Was Pushing Me Over the Edge
“Adulting” is a relatively hip term, it seems. It emerged on the scene like a hot new concept. According to Urban Dictionary, as of 2016 it means “to carry out one or more of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals (paying off that...
Doubting and Discovering Brilliance
March 19 is a significant date in my life and work. More than two decades ago, in my second year of the MBA program at MIT Sloan, I carefully weighed which job offer would be the best fit for me upon graduation. I had a spreadsheet to analyze the options, and when...
Are You Comfortable with Your Brilliance?
My purpose is to bring your Brilliance front and center in your professional life, so that you generate joy, prosperity and meaningful impact. The world will benefit when you do.