One of my clients, a powerful, creative, beautiful, empathetic, and accomplished woman in her 40s, recently told me that she would never ever give her power away to a man. I agreed, because in my 40s, I would never again do that either. As a coach, my job is also to help each client find…

There was a time when I used to cut my fingers a lot. I traveled to Mongolia for work assignments and cut my finger while chopping vegetables and opening tuna cans. My co-workers helped me put coffee on the wound until it stopped bleeding. It took so long to stop that I thought I had…

We all come with the capacity to produce shadows. In coaching, we often say that every strength, when overused, becomes a shadow. Or I'd ask a client, how might you be leaning too much into empathy here? A shadow needs three things: a source of light like the sun, something to block the light like…