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Sometimes it’s really tough running a business and being a Mom…and sometimes it’s not so tough. I’m starting to notice a pattern about the not-so-tough times and I want to share what I’m realizing and where I’m putting my attention. This does have to do with motherhood, though I wish I had learned many of […]
I remember it well. I was in 5th grade, standing at the front of my school’s church and in front of my entire elementary school, singing my heart out as I auditioned for the top solo in the school’s Christmas pageant. I remember the depth of passion and beauty I felt as I sang, and […]
Warning: this post involves lovers, tantric practices, and other delicious things. It all ends up being about public speaking and leadership. Stay with me here….I promise to explain. In 2001, I left my investment banking job. Walked up to the office in the Transamerica Pyramid and forked over my Blackberry (aka ball and chain), laptop, […]
Don’t tell me that just because I don’t sit behind a computer for hours, I’m not working. Don’t tell me that because I make sure to spend time in nature everyday and cook and dance, I’m not productive. That deep sense of purpose and gratitude for my life arises about the same time I smell […]
I’m in Sedona today. I have spent the last four days here on my own, and it’s been really special. Lots of dips in the creek. It’s my first time to be here on my own since Connor was born. Hard to believe! I have a pretty incredible, jaw droppingly magical love story about how […]
One day when I was about 13 years old, I found something interesting on my parents’ book shelf. Just a few rows down from The Joy of Sex (which was also very interesting), I found a box of cassette tapes called The Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century. I think my heart did a flip flop […]
20 minutes after I gave birth, as I lay with a precious baby in my arms, I had a powerful realization. I had the thought that if I had died in childbirth, (which, thankfully, was never an imminent risk during my birthing process, but wow the portals of life and death are so intricately intertwined), […]
When I turned 15, I got my braces off. Suddenly, I transformed from a cute yet awkward girl with buckteeth and a bad perm into a pretty young woman. I started getting attention from boys, something I relished in greatly, and I began putting lots of attention on maintaining my beauty – not all healthy, […]
The state of our world has been laying heavy on my heart as of late, and I have some things to say. First and foremost, my heart goes out to every Muslim American and those living outside of our borders who are being so radically misrepresented and threatened by the words of Republicans running for […]
For about the last two years, I have been deep in the dance of changing diapers, nursing, going to bed at the ungodly hour of 8 or 8:30pm (I have had zero night life, as you can imagine), and falling deeply in love with a beautiful baby boy. Previous to having my child, I was […]
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