I’m on the other side of a very big week, a week that has loomed not only on my calendar but also very heavily on my mind. My book was released (YAY! And more details below), but I gave a new workshop and had some client deliverables. 

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride

When was the last time you felt inspired? Really. Take a second to recall a time. I’ll wait. Maybe it was a book, a movie, someone you follow online, a news story, a brand, or a nonprofit? 

As I type the first draft of this, I’m on a plane back to my hometown to finally have a gathering and memorialize my dad, who passed away in May 2020.

I get asked hard questions a lot, and the answers are always simple, but doing the work for the desired outcome is not.

It starts with a beautiful wild place to visit. Then, everyone journeys there. The place gets disrespected, trampled, and trashed.

Last week I presented to a group of Solo PR professionals on the power of personal storytelling.

Last week, I met with a client to talk about her gala speech. This was a big night for her because she was stepping into a new role as executive director.

"Leverage is a term used most often metaphorically. Its origin is in physics, where a lever literally 'amplifies an input force to provide a greater output force.'

I received the BEST ever speaking invitation a few weeks ago: To speak at my nephew’s sixth-grade class about my experience on Mt. Rainier.

If you get hung up on what to say/write, you think you don’t know how to tell a good story, I see you, and today is for you.

A friend put her home on the market in Eastern Washington and received an offer that was $100,000 below the asking price.

What does the perfect week look like to you? I am part of a program called thought Leaders Business School and have a tribe of people I get together with on a weekly basis.

New neighbors moved in down the road from us and the first thing they did in their new home was to nail a bright orange No Trespassing sign on a tree out front

I give a lot of credit to storytelling. I credit storytelling with changing the world. But. It's not the stories. It's the actions and the work you are doing.

"I'm not the creative type."I hear that all the time, especially when someone has asked me about the work I do. "Oh, that's important work," they say, "I need to be better at storytelling, but I don't have an interesting story to tell." Or, "I'm not the creative type. "

Question: if you were able to follow two, not one life path(s), what would your second/alternative life be like? I would be a fashion designer living in New York City or Paris.

“Time is a non-renewable resource.” Tim Ferris said this in his interview with Guy Raz, How I built this.

On a zoom call the other day, everyone quickly introduced themselves, but one person, in particular, caught everyone's attention.