Reader, I'm deep into launching a keynote speaking business while running my coaching business. I thought it would be a natural extension. I'm learning the hard way, again, that nothing is as natural as it looks from the outside. In the middle of all of it, I caught myself doing something I recognize in my clients. While scrambling doing all the "right" things, I joined webinars. Paid for summits. Committed to challenges. Consumed podcasts. Took notes I haven't looked at since. This is a...
6 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, Last week, I played in a paddle tennis tournament.For a few games on that court, I felt something I can only describe as abundance. The ball met my racquet exactly where I expected it to.I sensed where the return was coming from before it arrived.I wasn’t forcing shots — I was placing them. I was in flow. It felt light.Fluid.Spacious. Full — but not heavy.Focused — but not forced.Effortful — but without resistance. That, to me, is abundance. I also know all too well the opposite...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Reader, There was a season of my life I call the river of misery. Despair on one side.Comparison on the other.And me… floating somewhere in the middle wondering how I got here. I had left Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia after nearly two decades. A former boss recruited me to an up-and-coming digital media technology company. They wanted a national revenue leader who could reimagine their product through storytelling. I was all in. In eight months, I doubled the ad buy deal size. Then the...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Some people doom scroll. I go down the rabbit hole of research -- usually now with Chat. I was prepping a speaker application for the American Trucking Association — a bit of a stretch, I know, so I did my homework. And down the rabbit hole I went. It's where I discovered a powerful story about delivery trucks. At UPS, drivers were working incredibly hard — and still falling behind. More packages.More pressure.More accidents.More fuel costs....
27 days ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I read recently… Writers write. Builders build. Leaders lead. When I first started writing Sunday Sunshine — and later, my book — I didn’t think I could become a writer. Sure, I could craft a good email. But a writer? That felt like a stretch. Everything I read said the same thing: Writers write every day.You build a practice.You earn the identity through repetition. That's how you become a writer. It was intimidating at first. Then it freed me....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Like an ocean wave, it comes ashore again and again.It begins again. You can begin again each and every day. Begin again—without shame.without blame.without the baggage of yesterday. Every day offers a new beginning.A new 24 hours.A fresh page. A new day to make a mark.A new energy that lights you up—and becomes contagious. Most failures and disappointments aren’t surprises. They’re ignored signals. Today is a fresh day to listen.To evaluate what’s...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Reader, I want to do something different this week. Instead of asking you to read, I want to invite you to listen. I was recently a guest on the DisruptHER podcast, and this conversation stayed with me long after we stopped recording. Not because it was polished—but because it was real. We went to a place where many high performers quietly live but rarely name. I call it the midlife rift. It’s that moment when: You’ve checked all the boxes Built the career Held it together for everyone else...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 January brings pressure. Pressure to set the goals.Pressure to launch them and do better than last year.Pressure to declare them publicly—and stick to them. If you’re not crystal clear yet, it can feel like you’re already behind. And, even if you are clear, that behind feeling persists. [I saw the most amazing vision board this week! Eeek. Mine is not complete.] I believe the goal-getting process is widely misunderstood. We’ve been taught that...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, We can all do big things.Big things you can’t even imagine—until you do. This past Christmas, my son climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Six days.Nearly 20,000 feet where oxygen is scarce.Four miles straight up.The equivalent of 14 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. He told me it was the hardest thing he’s ever done—and the most beautiful sight he’s ever seen. A view from the climb His climb reminded me of another Kilimanjaro story. In 1997, Martha Stewart climbed the same...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 It’s January 4. By now, you 'should' have your goals set.Your resolutions written.Your vision board complete.Your word of the year chosen. That’s what the world tells us. But for many people, instead of feeling fired up, you feel… flat. You think you should be ready to spring forward.But maybe your nervous system hasn’t caught up yet. If you feel quiet.Resistant.Unmotivated. You’re not behind. January 4 isn’t actually different from June 4.We just...
2 months ago • 3 min read