Category: growth

  • Lessons in Solopreneurship (part 1)

    Lessons in Solopreneurship (part 1)

    1 Find Your New People While I have a lovely group of friends and family, it’s a completely different experience to work solo. It’s a huge mindset shift, personal…

  • Insights into First-Time Leadership

    Insights into First-Time Leadership

    It’s likely no one taught you HOW to be a Manager of other humans. The one promise I have for you if you are considering Management, especially in Design,…

  • Reflections & Hope For The Future of Design

    Reflections & Hope For The Future of Design

    Reflections & Hope For The Future of Design As a design leader, I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of the remarkable journey of the design field over…

  • Navigating the Modern Career Playground

    Navigating the Modern Career Playground

    Navigating the Modern Career Playground In the rapidly-evolving landscape of careers, it’s clear that the traditional straight-and-narrow career ladder has become a relic of the past. The modern career…

  • reflections on Within 2018

    reflections on Within 2018

    For the first time in a long time I feel incredibly inspired and at peace. It took a gathering in warm Palm Springs of sixty or so of the…

  • The Tipping Point of Burnout vs. Self Care

    The Tipping Point of Burnout vs. Self Care

    How we all function as our best selves ebbs and flows situationally and in context of internal and external stressors. The Yerkes-Dodson law examines the relationship between stress stimuli and performance, with performance increasing to a peak with the “right” amount of stress, then declining into burnout

  • We Should Quit Should-ing Ourselves

    Let’s rebel against the word “should”. I’m pushing back against all the “should” usage in my world — both self-imposed and externally forced upon me.