I’ve noticed a theme through all of my professional and personal conversations lately: how do you plan when everything can change next week, or tomorrow or in the next hour? It can be exhausting to think about or try to move forward when you feel like the ground beneath you is in a full rolling […]

Okay, I know some people think we’ve lost our minds. Sometimes we think we’ve lost our minds too. Still, we are having a wedding. I can’t help it. I’m excited and a little nervous, but mostly excited. And to be totally honest, I wanted to share these engagement pictures. (Thank you Susan Beard!) These two […]

10 years ago during the last recession, I got stuck. I was able to keep my job as a veteran TV news reporter, but I felt completely overwhelmed by change. The market was tanking. Media and technology were rapidly changing just as they are today. That’s when I went on a journey that allowed me […]

I have some dear, amazing friends who inspire me, but now are, understandably, venting : “I don’t want to learn new things. This sucks.” “I don’t want to feel guilty about eating chips and cookies all day or drinking, or sleeping all day or not exercising . If it makes me feel better, and helps […]

I’ve spent the last 10 years teaching people how to get their lives and careers unstuck by daring to Do the New. It all started the last time this country was in a national crisis; a recession that hit right when technology was changing our lives, the internet, and social media. It was an avalanche […]