Open the door and there’s your Pandora’s box — When you lock a room for long enough, you forget there’s something behind it. You start to see the locked door as part of the wall. Your heart can sometimes feel like that locked door, a forgotten part of an old ancestral home you inherited — a lot of trauma…

By someone who has experienced it firsthand — I was raised in a household with a narcissistic parent. Until a couple of years ago, I didn’t have a term for how I felt about my mother’s abusive behaviour that had gone on for decades. Even a few years after I first started going to therapy, I was hesitant…

Even Jacinda Ardern hasn’t had it easy — Someone on Twitter was going on about how their team shows up to work even on holidays and those who aren’t doing so are clearly indicating they’re not serious about the job. Here’s why they’re dead wrong - No matter what anyone says, no two people have the same number…

A recent loss got me thinking about grief. Since the time I lost my grandmother at the age of five, I’ve noticed that grief is one of the most uncomfortable emotions people experience. Both the people impacted by it directly and those who have to show up to offer their…

Someone recently asked this question on LinkedIn on one of Adam Grant’s posts on burnout. The first thing is to recognize that YOU are the founder. You. NO ONE, and I repeat, NO ONE, will ever be as invested in your business as you will be. You might eat, sleep…

Take it from someone who learnt this the hard way — you spend way more time recovering from burnout than you do burning out. I worked at the last job I burned out working in for only 4 months and spent the next 8 months recovering from it. …

There are 3 topics I am actively thinking about a lot these days: Topic #1: Stress Having actively navigated it in the last couple of years, I am interested in Stress because it makes me mad that most organizations do not actively focus on stress. My hope is to educate and work with…

I recently signed up for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole’s cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30. Here are a few reasons why: I’ve identified as a writer since I was 14. Yet, what I haven’t been doing consistently is the deed itself — writing. Consistency is a key reason why I’m here. Accountability — The last…

Have you ever walked into a garden that didn’t get watered enough? Where the plants and shrubs shrivelled up and died eventually because someone didn’t pay enough attention. The tendrils that once wrapped themselves longingly over the stick someone planted so they were supported, now hang their heads droopily, dead…