Here’s the thing: when you’re starting out on your own or taking on a new role, you can follow the books and blogs about how to set up and go about your business. You don’t have to, but you can.

You’ll try and fail and try and learn and try again. You’ll bump into things.

What to do when the signs were there, demanding a major change and I ignored them and explained them away.

In my change management work, I spend a lot of time talking to employees about what keeps them at their jobs and what motivates them to leave. Much like the Gallup quote above, their answer is almost unanimously leadership-related.

Have you ever wondered how the phrase "imposter syndrome" began? Understand where your feelings of self-doubt come from a little bit more.⁠

Choose you. Those two simple words have stuck with me for seven months, at the front of my mind and on the tip of my tongue.

Who are my people? What defines "my clients"?

Who do I coach? Why?

"Tell me about a time you've failed" is a trick question. Interviewers ask it to gain a sense of your ego, your ability to handle adversity, and how you rebound. But it is a trick question.

Here's the thing: you never, ever have to apologize to me for being your badass self. Ever. And I'm not sorry for that.

Where can we make little changes to how we dress (or behave, or feel) more like ourselves every day, all day? Because don't little changes become big changes when added together and given time?

If you wanted to make that leap from what you do to what you want to do, what would it take? What would you like to be when you grow up?