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Clapping in Joy

In March 2021 my family said goodbye to one helluva good man. His name was Clyde, and he was the first potato farmer I ever met. He was like this awesome combination of the Marlboro Man, Mr. Miyagi, and Jimmy Stewart. The high school kids who picked potatoes for him …

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How I Learned to Love My Linebacker

I’m not a big fan of football. And yet…. I’m obsessed with the series Friday Night Lights.  I’d watched it float by my Netflix windows and kept dismissing it as “so not me…” Ick. Ptew. Blech. I mean, come on Netflix…how you could possibly think I’d like that, you fool! …

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Wintering

This winter feels different.  Seriously, I know we’re in year #@$& of a pandemic, but doesn’t it feel like something is….shifting? In our hard-wiring, our priorities or maybe even our vision? I feel like years from now, if you and were to meet and reflect on our lives, we would …

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How to live—and lead—in the mess

I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to lead in transition. Indeed, what we now call “hard” would have been deemed “impossible” even two short years ago—pre-pandemic. Most of my 1:1 clients are senior leaders in organizations and are at the helm, steering across vast oceans with what feels …

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Winter called. She’ll be here soon.

I used to dread winter. I get cold really easily. I have struggled with depression in the past. I’m a social creature who loves long summer days. I prefer bare feet over boots. I love the feeling of warm sun on my skin. So naturally, my relationship to winter used …

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Harvest Time, Witches

Want a bit of context for this post? Listen to me reading the email I sent out to my subscribers last week to prime the pump for this. If you like what you hear, you can get in on this action by entering your email in the red box to …

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Calling in the Women

There was a moment in my life nearly nineteen years ago when I struggled to believe something seemingly natural—and as old as time—was even possible. “Struggle” is putting it delicately, actually. It was full-on doubt…a hair away from resignation. I was in the throes of delivering my first son and …

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How to Grow a Business (or Anything) From Dirt

I am obsessed with women’s business models—and the feminine principles that guide them. So it’s not surprising that I’m obsessed with Growing Floret. If you don’t know what Floret is, rest assured I didn’t either until last week. But it’s one of those things that once you know it, you …

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Who Do We Choose To Be? Another Reckoning.

I was sitting on my front lawn the other day staring at the two items in my online cart—one was a book, the other was a weapon. Clearly I had chosen to purchase these at some point in time, and I was struck by their stark contrast. It felt like …

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3 Ways Dangerous Women Make Good Trouble

My nickname was “Trouble” thirty years ago. Apparently when I came on the scene, it meant something was about to happen that was going to disrupt someone’s status quo. Thirty years ago I was a director of an overnight camp in New Hampshire, which means I was one of two …

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