Take Back Your Kids
It wasn't that long ago, in the history of human beingness, that kids left the house at six weeks old to be raised by other people. For a long, long, LONG time, our children stayed with us as we hunted and gathered, nomaded our way across new lands, farmed the plots...
The Way to Wow
How many brands, can you name, consistently wow you? Let me rephrase that. How many brands wow you? Because if it’s not on a consistent basis it doesn’t really count. We all want to feel wowed as a customer (client, member, donor, partner). We want special...
The Deep
In 2008, I went to South Korea for part of my honeymoon and to start a birth family search. I was abandoned and adopted from there at age 3. It was a heavy thing to do on such a joyous occasion but my husband encouraged me and I took the plunge. After visiting...
The Problem with Gratitude
I’m a motivational speaker and trainer. I help soul-searching executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals experience greater balance, freedom, and fun in their life by finding more success, joy, and purpose in their work. What I do is steeped in positivity and...
Radical Self-Love
At one of my recent workshops on freeing the power of your voice, I did an exercise with the audience of businesswomen that I learned from Noor Tagouri at an event we both spoke at, who learned it from some young women at a college she spoke at, who probably learned...
Time Travel
The first and only time I visited Paris, I was 10 years old. I still have incredible memories from that trip bringing me right back there… like getting stuck on the Eiffel Tower after we watched the elevator drop like an amusement park ride :0 I love to travel...
Blame It on the Rain
When you think of abundance do you think, “Why does he/she/they have it and I don’t? What’s wrong with my life?” Maybe you think, “I’ve never had abundance and I never will,” or “I don’t deserve abundance.” These are limiting beliefs and they are holding you back...
The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard
I've always been a writer. Mostly in my journal, for myself. In-depth conversations with my heart. Handwritten words from soul to paper. But, the rest of my life is spent on this keyboard and on my even smaller phone keyboard. I've become used to reliant on...
Love Is Like Glitter
Love is like glitter. It’s beautiful and magical but damn is it messy. If you’ve ever been in love, you know what I’m talking about. There’s nothing like falling in love. Countless songs, stories, and poems have been written about it. The hardest of...
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
When I was almost three years old, my mother gave me up for adoption. I don’t remember what my three-year-old self thought of this. I don’t remember it happening. And I don’t remember her from that time. I do, however, remember my parents. My mom and dad who adopted...