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The Courage to Try Something New

June 20, 2025

When was the last time you tried something new—not because you were certain, but because you were curious, ready, or simply knew it was time? At The Restoration Project, we […]

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The Courage to Take Action

February 25, 2025

Back several years ago, I owned a coffee shop in downtown Cedar Rapids. I had taken a risk in 2011 to step away from a banking career, steady salary, match […]

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A Mountain State of Being

December 19, 2024

Be the Mountain is not an action. It’s a state of being.  A mountain does not waver.  It remains still regardless of the day, weather, or creatures surrounding it.  A mountain […]

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Surrender Remembers. Fear Forgets. 

December 10, 2024

Surrender Remembers. Fear Forgets. What has your attention right now? Where has fear, resentment, guilt and anger made a presence in your every day? Do these have a firmly held […]

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Action Without Regrets

November 20, 2024

When is the right time to take action? Is there ever a right time? How do we know? Taking action in our lives can be as simple as changing a […]

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Risking Everything for Our Full Aliveness

October 29, 2024

There are times in my life that I feel completely broken. Like unwanted toys. Dirty, broken, worn out from a new shiny box Christmas morning, if you get what I’m […]

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The Continuous Adventure

October 10, 2024

To understand oneself is a continuous adventure.  We will never be “done” and we will never reach “the end” of understanding ourselves.  As humans we’re changing and growing each day, […]

Pondering

October 1, 2024

I’m pondering. Enlightenment in watching a bird build a nest. Picking out the branches, and twigs, and anything it can find that might be the right fit and size to […]

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Connected Leadership

August 1, 2024

Here’s what I knew and understood about connection prior to landing and exploring a world of coaching and consulting, inner teaching and learnings. I understood it through the lens of connectivity….plugging […]

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Relaxed and Real: Leading in Alignment and Integrity

June 26, 2024

Integrity. It’s a word that almost everyone uses when asked to name the most important values or attributes of a successful organization or leader and a desirable a partner or […]

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