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Rebounding I think I’ve found my newest obsession.   Health and fitness has been a passion of mine for going on 20 years. Heart disease and diabetes run pre […]

The Legacy We Carry: Lessons from My Grams, Lois Sue  When we talk about legacy, it’s easy to think of wealth, titles, or something tangible left behind. But the most powerful legacies aren’t thi […]

Becoming Emotionally Mature Growth is one of the hardest things we do as humans. Whether it is the physical pain as our bodies get taller (or wider) or the pain of emotionally […]

The Dream Has a Price Tag The American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of background, can achieve success, prosperity and upward mobility through hard work, […]

What If Growth Isn’t About Fixing Yourself? Every spring, the message of fixing ourselves start again. “Fresh start.” “New habits.” “Reinvent yourself.” Do We Need Fixing? Th […]

Influencers: We’re Being Influenced It’s not what you think! These are not the ‘influencers’ you find in your doom scrolling algorithms. These are something altogether diffe […]

How To Build Your Wealth With Smart Real Estate Investments Real estate wealth-building starts with one concrete asset: the home you buy, financed with a mortgage, in a market where prices and taxes can work […]

When Old Wounds Meet New Pain There are moments in life that don’t just hurt—they echo the pain of the past. Yesterday, I sat in a veterinary office and heard the word can […]

Renewal: Learning to Trust Yourself Enough to Say No I used to think growth and renewal showed up in the big “yes” moments. “Yes!” to a promotion, “Yes!” to a new opportunity […]

Growth is Not Always Green: The Messy Middle of Growth Every spring we celebrate growth. Flowers bloom. Trees bud. Grass returns. The world seems to wake up overnight in a burst of color and life. But w […]

The Women Who Refuse to Look Away March is National Social Work Month — a time set aside to recognize a profession that rarely seeks applause and often works where the lights are d […]

The Five Percent Quadrant We all want answers to certain questions about money. Where is the wealth of this country and who controls it? Can we as individuals increase the s […]

The Grace of the Fall: What Lindsey Vonn Taught Me About Heartbreak Getting a front-row seat to the fall, someone else’s heartbreak is never easy, especially when that person has spent their entire life training f […]

Which Woman Has Inspired You Most? March is Women’s History Month, and every year the question comes up: Which woman has inspired you most? My answer is always the same — my mot […]

A Story of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Paying It Forward I was 22 years old, wearing a camp T-shirt covered in Sharpie signatures, when I learned another woman had nominated me to be her boss. I […]

Ella Baker: The Woman Who Proved Leadership Isn’t Loud History often remembers the microphone holders. The speechmakers. The names etched into monuments. But movements—real ones—are rarely built tha […]

Learning to Be Held I recently took on a teaching assignment at a location I reach by train. It’s not new for me. I’ve ridden this line before. But there had been a l […]

Self-Directed Learning Financial literacy is competence in and a knowledge of money. This competence and knowledge is anchored in the skill of self-directed […]

Vision VS. Resolution I sort of gave up on New Year’s Resolutions several years ago. Mine always seemed to center around my health and my weight, which, let’s be hon […]

The Meeting of the Minds: Choosing Friendship In my mid-thirties, I took the risk of making a new friendship. There was a point in time where I started losing female friends due to distance or […]