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Ambition and balance: Can you have both?
Just curious… Do you ever find yourself oscillating between being really ambitious, driven, motivated and wanting to maintain balance, calm, presence?  I do a lot these days.  I’m so inspired and exhilarated by building my business, creating meaningful work, making...Conflict: How to make peace with an upset customer, lover, or friend
For many people, conflict is scary.  Conflict is yucky. And yet, conflict is unavoidable.  If we’re alive, living in the world with others, conflict happens. Here’s a story about how conflict showed up hugely in my life. When I was a school...Why taking risks makes life worth living: 3 effective ways to go after what you want
Why taking risks makes life worth living.  Goodbye stability, hello creativity.  As many of you know, I recently had a second baby, left my job, and launched my own business.  So, I’ve reflected a lot on risk and choice lately.  Here are...Gratitude equals joy: how to have more of it
At 23 I had a sucker punch to the gut.  I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma- chemo, radiation, the whole shabang.  Through that experience, and for a while afterward, I felt truly connected to gratitude.  Never before had I so appreciated being...
