Hey there Reader!This summer, I started my very own "victory garden" on the balcony of my apartment. Actually, I started it when we were staying in temporary housing in Portland before we found our new digs. One of the tomato plants that I got from a local micro nursery cam with me to Vancouver. It is Noember, and that plant is STILL producing fruit... and a business lesson about growth that hit closer to home than I expected. You know those seasons when everything looks like it’s going well...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey there Reader!Oscar Wilde once said: "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." Well, those conditions are different for everyone, and if you've been feeling less than successful (especially with everything going on in the world right now), I'm inviting you to join us for next week's free workshop. Conditions For Success:The 7 Domains That Shape Sustainable Growth November 7, 202511am-1pm Pacific US time(2-4pm Eastern US time) REGISTER NOW I haven't taught a...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey there Reader!I’ve been teaching Conditions for Success for years as a simple way to set yourself (and your business) up for success. But recently, something clicked. Even my most capable clients — the ones doing everything right — were still hitting walls. That sent me down a rabbit hole of research, reflection, and some uncomfortable truths about the systems we’re all building inside. In my newest post, I share how the seven domains of influence shape your ability to create, hold, and...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
I remember it vividly Reader!I was crawling across the floor — literally. Every movement sent pain shooting down my leg. Tears hit the floor like hot lava as I tried to make it to the bathroom. Turns out, my sciatica had come back with a vengeance. A pinched nerve so bad it would take surgery to fix. But it wasn’t just my body that broke down — it was everything I’d built on the back of hustle. Even after I'd spent years detangling myself from hustle culture, there were still remnants I...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader!Have you ever had one of those mornings where you wake up feeling tired before the day even begins? You got enough sleep. You care about your work. But your brain’s already racing through your to-do list before your feet hit the floor — and even checking email feels like a chore. You tell yourself, “I just need to push through.” But by mid-afternoon, your body’s tense, your patience is thin, and even simple decisions feel heavier than they should. That’s not a lack of motivation....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader!I was talking with a client recently who was feeling like she was playing catch-up, and having all kinds of guilt about it. She rattled off half a dozen things that had come up this year to derail her business plans. And while she could intellectually see how they were important to deal with, she kept thinking that if she just put more effort and time into her business it would solve everything. That's when I told her that her brain was lying to her. And there's science to prove...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader!There’s a question I’ve been sitting with lately — one that cuts through the noise and gets right to the heart of authentic leadership: When the audience is gone… when there’s no one to impress or prove yourself to… who do you become? Over the past few months, I’ve had to ask myself that question again and again. Between health scares in my family, moving across the country, and re-establishing the foundation of my work, I realized how easy it is to perform leadership instead of...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader!As you're reading this, Jim and I are up in Longview for his surgery. Send us the good juju, wouldja? Thyroid cancer is supposed to be "no big deal" - a quick outpatient procedure. We're supposed to be home this afternoon. But you know, it's cancer, so who really knows what's going to happen until it's done?That's why I wrote this post over the weekend and scheduled it to go out Monday morning (which should be TODAY, if the internet gods are playing nicely!).Having tools that...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Howdy Reader! The other day, I was chatting with some other business owners and one of them was on the verge of pulling their hair out because they were caught in the all-too-familiar trap of trying to be everywhere and getting very little momentum. It was hard for them to know where to invest their resources, because so many of their visibility efforts were bringing in a small trickle of attention. Basically everything was "working" (at least to some degree) so it was hard to know what to...
2 months ago • 2 min read