When bedtime came around while babysitting my 3-year-old nephew a few weeks ago, he knew exactly which pajamas he wanted to wear, plucked them out of their drawer, and slid them on. This particular pair involved a button-up shirt, but when I asked if he needed help with the buttons, he said nope, he knew [...]

A theme has been coming up loud and clear among my female coaching clients across a wide range of personal backgrounds and professional environments. They say they’d like to be more assertive, but hesitate to move that direction for fear of being seen as aggressive. They each ask some variation of the question, “How do [...]

I’d like to ask you to take part in a little experiment. Close your eyes and think of the color red. See it in your mind. Now open your eyes and take a look around the room you’re sitting in. What do you notice? Chances are your eye picked up a lot more flecks of red [...]

I heard an NPR piece the other day about how mosquitoes are able to survive a rainstorm despite the raindrops hitting them weighing 50 times their weight. Logic would presume the insects would be crushed like bugs on a windshield in a storm, but they’re not. Part of the reason they survive is they essentially [...]