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As stress and burnout are becoming increasingly common, we need to establish another way of leading and living. My musing attempt to answer the following questions:

How can we still have high performance while maintaining our wellbeing and our relationships?
How can we show up as our best selves, both at home and at work?
How does showing up as our best self lead to high performance?

Let’s Elevate our Life and Leadership with more joy, confidence and balance!

My Dad's Parting Gifts

For my dear friends Alison and Ashwin—and anyone who is navigating, or has navigated, the loss of a parent. Besides midlife being a turning point on a personal level, it also comes with aging parents—and passing parents. For me, I recently drove my 83-year-old mother…

Outsmarting Your Inner Teenager: A Realistic Guide to Self-Care (and Discipline)

For many years, I struggled to maintain a consistent workout routine. I’d try to squeeze it into the afternoons, but my success depended on, well, a lot of things: what time I got home from work, how long the cooking would take, whether I had…

The Search for Belonging

Have you ever asked yourself... Where do I belong? I’ve been searching for the answer to this question my whole life. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes unconsciously. I want to take you back to the time when this story begins. I was born in Barbados to an…

Be Well to Do Well - Part 2: The Mental Load

Overwhelmed. Exhausted. The tears were rolling down her cheeks before she could even finish her first sentence. "I’ve had several meltdowns," she told me, her voice trembling. "I feel like the job is killing me. I’m being pulled in so many directions, I’m second-guessing every…

Be Well to Do Well - Part 1: Awareness, Being Present and Choice

Have you ever had back pain so severe it hurts just to breathe? To laugh? To cough? You lie there on the floor, crippled, wondering, "How the hell am I supposed to get up?" You slowly roll onto your stomach, gasping as you inch forward…

Slay Your Slog!

In one of my small group coaching sessions, as we talked about goals for the season, one of the participants said: “I just need to change my mindset about the slog.” I loved that! There are so many different ways to approach this topic. We…