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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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Leading Myself with Love

May 9, 2024

Taking a deep breath, breathing in the cool, crisp air of the morning, I ask myself: What does my heart truly yearn for? To feel safe. To feel whole in […]

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