Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I could care less if I inspire you. Here me out... Inspiration is a spark. It’s lovely. It’s warm.But it does not create a new life. Action does. That’s how I opened my keynote at the Maine Women’s Conference.For years, I wanted to inform and inspire.But inspiration alone gives you… hope.And hope without action? Nada. From that stage, I asked 400 women to do one thing:Make one new decision in pursuit of who they want to become. We resist...
4 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I met a woman while grabbing coffee on my way to give my keynote to 400 women at the Maine Women's Conference. As we both waited for our caffeine boost, she asked what I was speaking about. I told her my keynote was about Doing The Impossible — that success is an inside job — and that an intentional mindset is the defining ingredient. That’s when my new coffee friend dropped a mind-blowing story. Six years earlier, she had been electrocuted after a...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, Text SUCCESS to 833-362-7461 for the Wednesday Whisper A short midweek boost for you from me! ___________________________________ We are the only species capable of imagining. Imagination is our superpower. It’s important for so many reasons. Imagination helps you set impossible goals. It helps you see what doesn’t yet exist. And — maybe most importantly — imagination is the spark for innovation. Innovation is what we crave in business. It keeps us relevant, creative, and alive. Most...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 The Pivot Year is my new morning companion. I read two or three pages from the book each day to launch early morning writing practice. This passage sparked recognition. With how much detail you describe the antenna of a flower or the sunset or the best night of your life—with how much understanding can you explain the ways in which you overcame your greatest challenges? How deeply do you know yourself, your life, and its riches? As you expand your...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Last week, I wrote about the traps we create for ourselves—the ones we fight harder and harder against, only to stay stuck. Sometimes, the answer isn’t to pull harder. It’s to find a new pathway. This week let’s go deeper. The Power—and Trap—of Routine Research shows that nearly 40–45% of our daily actions are habitual. That’s 5–8 hours a day spent doing things on autopilot: brushing your teeth the same way at the same time, diving into your inbox...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 When I was a kid, the carnival rolled into town once a year. I still remember the ring toss and carefully aiming for those impossible glass bottles. That’s where I won one of those little woven toys — the Chinese finger trap. It looked so simple. Slip a finger into each end. Easy, right? But the moment you tried to pull them out, the trap tightened. The harder you tugged, the more stuck you felt. The toy is a trick. It's counterintuitive: you have...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Too often, my first instinct is to measure what’s missing instead of what’s working. I can spot what’s wrong with my day faster than I can celebrate what’s right. Can you relate?“I should be farther ahead by now.”“I know what I did wrong.”“It’s not working.”“I should have done it differently.” We rarely spend time noticing where we’re already winning. When I ask clients, “What do you want in your life?” the answers roll off—goals, desires, dreams....
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Dear ChatGPT (and all your AI cousins),At first, I rolled my eyes at you. I was very cynical.People talked about you as the next best thing -- that if I weren’t using you, I’d be left behind.Another shiny new thing. Another TikTok, Threads, yet another platform to subscribe to.Not for me.Not for my business.Hard pass.But then…I listened for understanding. I started watching how others were using you—to learn, to stretch, to stay relevant.I pushed myself to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 I remember at Fast Company in the midst of a potentially transformative new digital initiative roll-out, I was at the end of my rope. Our Editor & Chief was relentless: Every email he sent was push back. His numbers were incorrect, he was missing the context and next steps were never clear. He drove me crazy with each and every interaction. Has that every happened to you? Frustration rises. And then... Your fingers hit the keyboard. You type fast,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Reader, 🎧🎧 Listen to Sunday Sunshine HERE 🎧🎧 Fun fact: I was a ball girl at The U.S. Open tennis tournament. I was 13 years old, commuting two hours by bus, subway, and on foot to Flushing Meadows for my very first day. I arrived in the official U.S. Open ball girl uniform [sneakers included!]—more concerned about how I looked than how I’d perform. But super nervous working in the house of Arthur Ashe. After orientation, I was handed a stack of tennis ball containers and sent running under...
2 months ago • 3 min read