The Neuroscience of Calm: Why Your Nervous System Is Your Most Powerful Leadership Tool
Neuroscience has confirmed what caregiving leaders have always known in their bones: the most powerful thing you can bring into a room is a regulated nervous system. Your calm isn’t a personality trait. It is a physiological force that shapes every person around you.
Learning to Hold Ambivalence in Caregiving Without Breaking
The life I imagined and the life I am actually living are two different lives. Two completely real things. Existing at the same time.
When Someone Sees Gold in You (And You Only See Play-Doh)
What if I told you one of the most iconic toys in history was actually a complete failure?
The Scariest Costume You’ll Wear This Halloween?
Halloween is just around the corner. Time to decide what mask we’ll wear, what character we’ll become for a night.
But here’s the thing. Many of us have been wearing costumes all year long.
Caregiver + Career Chronicles vol 8
There was a Tuesday in 2018 that I’ll never forget.
I sat in my car in the parking lot, engine off, keys in my lap. I had fifteen minutes until the meeting started. My presentation was ready. My game face was… somewhere.
The Rebound Playbook:
One year ago yesterday, I was told I wasn’t good enough.
Feeling the Pressure
You’re four months into your new role. Maybe five. The initial excitement has worn off, and now you’re feeling it. The subtle shift in the room when you present. The increasingly pointed questions about pipeline. The “just checking in” messages from the CEO that feel less like support and more like surveillance.
The Marketing Leader Paradox:
Another incredible marketing leader just lost their job. Less than six months in. The pattern is exhausting, and it’s everywhere.
Walking Through What You Teach
There’s a raw truth about leadership that no one warns you about: the universe has a peculiar sense of timing. Every time I prepare to teach something, I’m inevitably asked to walk through the very lessons I’m about to share, not as an observer, but as the student who still has everything to learn.
Caregiver + Career Chronicles Vol 3
I took this photo at the aquarium, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
Two alligators.
One with its hand resting calmly inside the open mouth of the other.