What is “Success” in leadership?

Recently, my boss had me watch a Ted Talk as part of my leadership development by Simon Sinek, author of “Leaders Eat Last”, and in this talk he discusses why certain companies are wildly successful in comparison to their counterparts in the very same industries; he uses Apple and every other computer company as an

I Can’t Believe its Over

I finished my masters degree. It is done. It is complete. The last ten years (roughly) of my life have gone as such… 2011 Began my undergraduate degree – full-time, while working full-time, and trying to save a failing marriage after 12 years. My schooling was a consistent point of contention surrounding other issues going

The First Day

Tomorrow is a big day for me. I have worked for a great company as a business analyst for the last three years supporting various U.S. West Coast businesses from headquarters here in St. Louis. I learned so much working for this company. I had a wonderful example of an effective training program and how

The Silent Emotional Abuser of Women

…its us. Its ourselves. I’ll start there. I have grappled with a borderline eating disorder most of my life. There I said it. I was chubbier kid and even at a “thin” 130lbs in my early high school years I was heavier than most of the girls my age who weighed in closer to 105-110.

She rings like a bell through the night…

My oldest child is 15 today. Closing out her freshman year in high school. I still remember the day she was born, pretty vividly, even though it was my most calm, least anxious, birth regardless as to the fact that she was my first and I was just a wee 18. She was the kid

Hitting the Reset Button

…on how I feel about food. At my very heaviest in my early twenties, late teens, I was well over 200 pounds and I am 5’4. My triglycerides were off the charts, my cholesterol was high, my HDL was very low and LDL was way too high. It was a wake up call when my

Where we come from…

…is a profound piece of our identity, whether its culture, DNA, ancestors, the town we grew up in – all of it plays a huge part in how we shape who we are. I grew up in the multi-generational household of my mother in that I grew up in the household of my mother and

Audiobooks

I may have mentioned before that I am indeed an adult, and lifelong, ADD “sufferer”. I put it in quotations because at 32 I have learned to live with it and work “around” it mostly. Or…maybe I have succumbed to it completely and I am only fooling myself. I cannot tell you how many times

Confession

I am 32 and I don’t know “what I want to be when I grow up”.  When I was a little kid I wanted to be a “singer” for the longest time. I wanted to perform like my favorite artists of my early adolescence… though I suffered from a considerable amount of anxiety and “stage

Sometimes things are hard…

…Life is hard. Sometimes we make decisions that dramatically impede our quest towards fulfillment and happiness when we believe that those decisions are the linchpins that will lead us there. I have spent a considerable amount of time weighing risk in my personal life… “What is the risk of staying in this relationship?…for a year