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The wisdom of the waning moon

If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know I love to hustle. I absolutely love to get shit done and cross the finish line of projects and goals. It’s kind of a running joke in my household that when I cook dinner, I also cook at …

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Better than balance

We’ve officially entered the holiday season here in the U.S. As female business owners with families and professional ambitions, one question keeps popping up: How do we balance it all? Work-life balance is a highly sought-after outcome among many of my clients and business friends. But what if the concept of work-life …

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Three Tools to Exit the 3 Stages of Overwhelm

Last time I popped by, I talked about the three stages of overwhelm: acute, chronic, and systemic.  (Need a refresher? Click here.) Today, I want to give you a few tools you can use to diffuse overwhelm when you’re in it. I’ve included one actionable first step to take for …

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The 3 Stages of Overwhelm

Last week I was standing in the kitchen talking to my husband about returning to work after his paternity leave. He mentioned hundreds of emails, a slew of urgent deadlines, and the unfinished attic upstairs.  Sighing and scrubbing a baking sheet, he said, “I just can’t picture a world where it’s possible …

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3 questions to shift you from burnout back to flow

Does your to-do list feel like a Sisyphysian boulder?  No matter how hard you push and sweat and grunt, you make no real progress up your mountain of obligations… The longer you’re at it, the more tired you get—and the closer you creep toward real burnout. (You know, that whole …

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that one weird trick I learned from kickboxing

Shortly after I started my corporate career, I fell in love with boxing. Not the kind where you actually punch humans (because violence makes my skin crawl and I’m generally a pansy about confrontation) but the kind where you kick and punch at the air like a sweaty, aggressive breakdancer. …

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“But you’re so successful!” {part 2}

Two weeks ago, we discussed how common it is for high-achieving women in business to struggle with feeling like a fraud. As women, we’ve been acculturated to minimize our power, and as human beings, we’re neurologically wired to focus on the negative. All of that means we tend to avoid …

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“But you’re so successful!” {part 1}

The room was silent as my husband and I folded laundry.  Elbow-deep in underwear, I felt my heart lurch when he asked the question: “What’s wrong?” With a deep, unsteady breath, I admitted that I felt like a fraud in my business. Like my success was a sham. Like I …

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