Borrowing Courage to Find Your Own

Have you ever need to find the courage to step so far outside of your comfort zone that you found a different version of yourself? That happened to me this past weekend. I got on stage in front of 5,000 people, my biggest audience of my career, and the crowd was wild. The DJ was … Read more

Are You Getting Too Much Advice?

Asking for advice… It seemed like a good idea at the time, right? But are you getting too much advice? You had a problem, an issue, a confusion, and you said, “You know what? I’ll get some advice. I bet Jane can help.” And so you asked Jane. But while you were playing phone tag … Read more

POTUS, a Plane Crash, and Few Hundred Big Macs

The year was 1994, and I was 23 years old and worth my weight in anxiety and 80s power suits inherited from my mother (the suits, not the anxiety). I was working in the White House after having Wizard of Oz’ed my way into the campaign, the transition team, and eventually a staffing role helping … Read more

Life is a Choice, and You Decide What Happens Next

When the millenium turned from 1999 to 2000, my husband and I were at a party in Greenwich, Connecticut. Don’t get it twisted. We weren’t “of” Greenwich. We were just “in” Greenwich. To be honest, It was probably the fanciest party we’d ever attended. It was thrown by peers who were friends of friends. These … Read more