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When Work-Life Balance Isn’t the Answer

Why healthier rhythms matter more than perfect balance Work-life balance is often held up as the goal. But most leaders…
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When We Stop Thinking for Ourselves

How small moments of convenience quietly weaken discernment, presence, and leadership Recently at my other job, I received a request…
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The Hidden Cost of Always Being Available

Why constant availability quietly erodes clarity, focus, and sustainable leadership. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to become…
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“Who has time to sit and reflect on your day when the world’s on fire and you’re exhausted?”

The Question That Stayed With Me A woman in my recent Enneagram workshop looked at me and said: “Who has…
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The Leadership We Miss When We Only Value Loud

Some of the most important leadership moments happen on the edges. On the edges where someone is paying attention without…
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The Quietly Powerful Leadership Approach

There’s a quieter way to lead. Not because leadership should be easy or passive, but because so many of us…
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You’re Not Broken. You’re Just Tired of Holding Everything Alone.

There comes a point when even the strongest, most self-aware person hits a wall. Not because they’re lost.Not because they…
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When You Look Like You’re Leading Well…but You’re Running on Fumes Inside

The Hidden Exhaustion Quiet Leaders Carry On the outside, everyone thinks you’re calm. You’re steady. You seem like you’re leading…
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What It Means to Work From Rest Instead of Earning It

Why Rest Isn’t the Reward. It’s the Rhythm That Fuels Sustainable Leadership. Most of us don’t view rest as a…
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The 7 Types of Rest You Didn’t Know You Needed (and Why You’re Still Tired After a Good Night’s Sleep)

You can get 8 hours of sleep, eat all the right things, exercise, and get in 10,000 steps a day…
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Why Your Routines Aren’t Working (and How to Fix Them)

You’ve ordered the planner, set your goals, made the checklist, and decided you are finally ready to “stay consistent” with…
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Quiet Confidence: Moving from Busyness, Fear, and Noise to Trust and Clarity

I walked into the office bombarded almost immediately with issues. Email notifications one right after the other of people wanting…
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The Pace of Calm Leadership: Leading When the World Feels Fast

Culture and society tell us that leaders should always be loud, upbeat, make decisions quickly, always have the answers. But…
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Nervous System Resets for a Rooted & Calm Life

You know those days when you wake up with your heart already racing because of all that’s already on your…
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The Real Cost of Stress & What to Do About It

You struggle to get out of bed after a terrible night of sleep. You tossed and turned and your mind…
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The Enneagram and Working Genius: Connecting the Dots

What if the Enneagram and understanding your Working Genius together could bring greater self-awareness and clarity so you could live…
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Unlock Your Strengths with Working Genius

Working Genius and Stress: Why It Matters You leave work after a long day completely drained and realize nothing you…
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Enneagram Insights for Stressed Leaders

How Self-Awareness Creates Calm You walk into work and sit down at your desk. You open your email and can’t…
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Why Self-Awareness is Step One to Less Stress

Do you ever walk into work and feel overwhelmed before you even get started? Feeling like you’ll never be “caught…
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5 Practical Ways to Support Quiet Team Members (and Why It Makes You a Better Leader)

Quiet Doesn’t Mean Less In many businesses, companies, and organizations, loud = leadership. But what if the quietest voices have…
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Self-Leadership for the Quietly Powerful: How Introverts and HSPs Can Thrive Without Burning Out

Does this sound familiar? You skip lunch and never get to your tasks because your day is full of meetings…
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Are You an Introvert or Highly Sensitive or Both?

Are you ever accused of being “too sensitive?” As a child were you told “you’re just too sensitive!”? Maybe you…
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Are You an Introvert, Extrovert, or Ambivert? (And Why it Matters for How You Lead Yourself and Others)

Thriving doesn’t come from doing more—it comes from knowing yourself better. We live in a world that celebrates the loudest…
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Self-Awareness Tools That Work: How the Enneagram & Working Genius Lower Stress and Clarify Our Strengths

When it comes to self-awareness, no single tool gives us the full picture — but when we bring the right…
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Understand Yourself, Calm the Chaos: How Self Awareness Can Reduce Stress

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung…
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The Secret Power of Simple Routines

I tend to think of good habits and routines more as rhythms and practices. They help ground us when life…
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Tiny Triggers Quietly Draining Your Energy

Our days can be filled with small events and interactions that seem insignificant. When we think about how they add…
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Setting Boundaries with Work

Work life balance is a myth. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to set boundaries when it comes to…
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What’s the Cost of Hiding Your Strengths?

Do you ever catch yourself playing small? I am going through a group coaching program right now with my coach.…
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The Good Neighbor Podcast

I recently had the opportunity to be a guest on the Good Neighbor Podcast from Village Centre Press. Thank you,…
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7 Ways to Manage Energy Drains

Energy drains can add a lot of stress to our days. When they become chronic over time they can lead…
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You Can’t Lead Others Well Without Leading Yourself Well

I’ve seen companies and organizations push “leadership” with their volunteers and managers, but it was always about leading others. I…
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Intentions & Mindset

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about intentions and how our mindset is connected to our intentions. Being intentional in…
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4 Ways to Help Your Team Members Thrive

Want to help your team members thrive in their work and life? Check out these 4 ways of how investing…
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5 Ways Personal Growth Impacts Your Leadership

Personal growth is the foundation for growing as an effective leader. We can’t confuse leadership and management either. You might…
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What Are Your Top 3 Core Values?

What goals and dreams are you reaching for in 2024? Do they align with you core values? ⁠ ⁠ Landing…
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How Do You Find Your Purpose?

I’ve thought a lot about purpose over the past decade. I guess when you hit your late 30s & 40s…
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4 Keys to Effective & Productive Communication

One of the biggest frustrations in the workplace is communication. Miscommunication can lead to wasted resources, inefficient use of time,…
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No is a Complete Sentence

No is a complete sentence.⁠⁠To learn more about why you may have a hard time saying no, click here to…
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Do You Have a Practice of Rest?

Do you struggle to just stop and rest? I don’t mean resting at bedtime each night. Intentionally slowing down and…
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Using the Enneagram to Grow as a Leader

The most accurate “personality system” (for lack of a better description) to help you grow as a leader and overcome…
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Setting Boundaries with Work

One of the things I’ve learned in my personal growth is to let go of what I can’t control. To…
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You Don’t Have to Earn Rest

Maybe you need the reminder this week: You do not have to earn rest. You do not have to earn…
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Why Do the Work of the Enneagram?

Self awareness and emotional intelligence are the top 2 indicators for success as a leader. But it’s not just about…
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Healthy Habits for Reaching Your Highest Potential

After I had been studying the Enneagram, mindset & personal growth several years ago I began to realize the powerful…
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Simple Mindfulness & Breathing Practices to Use During Your Day

Awareness of how I was living from the core fear and other core motivations of my Enneagram type was the…
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The Language We Use with Ourselves Matters

The words we use matter. It matters when we are speaking with another person, but the language we use with…
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Seeing the Different Perspectives of Others

Learning to see experiences and situations from the perspective of others is essential to living with peace and purpose. Whether…
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Pause. Breathe. Look Up. Find the Beauty.

I first heard this phrase from a fellow Enneagram coach who recommended reading K.J. Ramsey’s book The Lord is My…
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What Makes Your Team Stand Out?

My 10-year old niece has been playing rec league soccer since she was 5. And she’s a good little soccer…
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The Nuances in Our Language Can Effect Our Mindset

As I’ve worked with my coach over the past year I have tried to mindfully start making small shifts in…
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What Do You Want Most?

We’ve all thought about this question. Maybe we want to be further in our career. Maybe we want to be…
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Choosing Our Thoughts

Most people believe we can’t choose our thoughts. And while we may not be able to choose the thoughts we…
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The Robin in the Rain

As I’m building my coaching business I’m still working another job. My manager recently took another job. I fully support…
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What Are You Hoping For & What’s Holding You Back?

I don’t like setting goals. And heaven forbid I set a resolution. It’s going to last all of maybe 3…
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My Top Books for Learning How to Cultivate Peace & Calm in Your Life

I grew up hearing and reading the scriptures that said “do not fear” and “cast all your cares” and “…
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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Are you constantly thinking about what you should have done? Or could have done? Or would have done if x,y,…
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The Gift of You

Do you know you have gifts and strengths? Maybe no one has ever told you that, but I want you…
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Do You Know Your True Worth?

Do you know your true worth? Whether consciously or unconsciously, do you base your worth on your paycheck? Or your…
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A Practice of Rest

Sabbath. It’s something that became almost sacred to me during 2020. The world was so noisy and filled with so…
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Finding More Joy

Joy cannot be found outside of ourselves. It can only be found when we are following the way of Christ…
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Just Simply Be

Do we know how to just be? My contemplative book club just finished Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and in…
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In a Hurry

I was on my way home from work one recent Friday & traffic was heavier than usual. The university students…
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Why I Do What I Do

Do you ever feel like you are constantly struggling to hold on to your inner peace? Does it seem like…
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Expectations & Egos

I was talking to a friend today & she was sharing about a situation she was in the middle of…
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The Slow Work

It’s late afternoon/early evening. I’m never sure what time of day this is during the late spring/summer when it’s 6…
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What is Your Core Fear?

God has really been teaching me about fear and the impact living in fear can have on our lives physically,…
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What If We Flipped the Script?

“God’s position on humanity hasn’t changed. But humanity’s position on themselves has.” – Marty Soloman This is a quote from…
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The Spiritual Practice of Sourdough Bread Making

Over the past year I’ve come to see everything as spiritual even if I do not perhaps see it in…
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The Spiritual Practice of Flowers

There is something holy about being in the garden just after sunrise tending to and cutting flowers before most of…
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Kingdom of Noise – Part 2

Noise and Fear. These seem to be two major themes God is teaching me about and revealing truths about to…
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Kingdom of Noise – Part 1

We live in a kingdom of noise as C. S. Lewis put it in The Screwtape Letters. Maybe not audible…
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Everything Comes Down to Fear or Love

Every thing, every action or reaction, every word spoken or message shared with others, is done out of either fear or out…
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Why the Enneagram?

Have you ever done something or said something that almost immediately, or later, you wonder why on earth you did…
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Intentionality Listens

I overheard part of a phone conversation at work yesterday and it got me to thinking about something. It also…
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Be Curious, Not Judgmental

“Be curious, not judgmental.” This quote is attributed to Walt Whitman. It seems to be mis-attributed from the research I’ve…
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See a Different Perspective

Over the past few years God has given me a passion and joy in learning about personalities and the different…
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Celebrate Their Wins

Earlier this week I found out a friend had something really good happen for them. I can’t share what exactly…
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