The Law Firm At Its Best: Strategic Planning
Modern employees want three things from their careers besides pay and benefits.1 Yet many employers still believe that employees only want good pay and benefits. If the pay and benefits …
How do you tell your story?
I grew up in a family that didn’t tell stories. That’s not entirely true. The women didn’t; we were fast and furious. We would never debrief movies before watching the …
2 Perspectives
“What is my name?” A Fijian Peace Corps volunteer says in a trailing-off kind of way after I ask what her name is. She continues, “In Fiji, I am Claudine…so …
Discover and Uncover
When she was little, Ruby talked an atypical amount about clouds. She wanted to live on a cloud, jump on a cloud, and eat a cloud. I especially remember that …
FDA and Stories
13 years ago I started a 5-year stint of flying to Washington DC one time per month for 12 days. I did this for 5 years. I was doing one-on-one coaching and teaching …
What Makes You Truly Unique?
Recognizing Uniqueness I was 21. It was my first summer working with Visions Service Adventures, and we were making the 6-hour drive from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tok, a tiny town …
The Purpose of Hiking and Spontaneity
Walking in capital city the night before boarding the train to our trailhead, I tripped down the curb. With my head swiveling back and forth desperately trying to figure out …
The Impact of One
On the sidelines of the micro-soccer field 8 years ago, as our daughters tried to learn which goal to actual score on, Chris Fetzer and I met. Chris brought me …
COVID & Cancer
To know me, you know that I typically am all in. Sometimes too fast, too energetic, too driven. I need the lessons of pacing, taking a back seat, and “good …
The garlic, the washing machine, and flatbed
The cool African wind whipped my hair as I stood in the back of the flatbed. After climbing 4,000 feet in elevation that day, I was five minutes from arrival. …