Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting a Maven + Co supper with 18 amazing women opening up conversations around money, financial planning, the power of compound interest, and mostly: just getting started. Money is a topic which, for many, feels weird, uncomfortable, dirty, and something to keep in…

Why investing in yourself might just be the best investment you could ever make. — We typically make investments based upon their potential for return, right? More investment = better potential = higher return = better life. That’s the goal. Well then, why don’t we see investments in ourselves under the same light? The language we commonly use to describe the money, time, resources spent…

How drops, not an ocean, can carve the stones of change. — “Dripping water hollows stone, not through force but through persistance.” — Ovid If you only read one thing today, make it this: Just show up. — We all struggle with new habits, routines, diets, exercise regimes, etc. We start out fired up and committed to this new way of being…

Breaking the Cycle of Comparison + Rebalancing your Validations. How often do we surrender our sense of worth, progress, accomplishment, value to the judgment of others? We find ourselves feeling untethered, thrashed around by the highs and lows of an external discernment, struggling to stay our course. We give excessive…

It’s time to remember: Life is responding to YOU. — Note: (In this story, I will refer to some neuroscientic and psychological terms. Where these come up, I will link them to easy to understand explainations of the term for those who are not yet familiar. Have no fear, it’s nothing crazy. Feel free to ask me for more information…

Bye Bye Ego, Hello Accountability. — After my last piece, Dancing in the Dark, I received a piece of thought-provoking feedback. (Here’s your formal invitation: please feedback away. Always. Good, bad, brutal: I want it.) He gave me useful analysis to foster my writing, and then he said “I wanted you to tell me, concretely, what…

The Wonderfully Ungainly Art of Discovering your Path. — I would imagine we’ve all been told how clearly defined goals, finding your passion, knowing our purpose, and/or unwaivering focus on the goalposts are the keys to our grand and glorious future success (*insert booming infomercial salesman voice here*). Easy peasy, right? Okay, great. Find this one thing and boom…

How the hell does embracing death enable life?! “Let us prepare our minds as if we have come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short…

The First Step We have all dreamed a grand and glorious dream which excited us to our very core, gave us a sense of purpose, helped us jump out of bed in the morning ready to change the world. With this dream in hand, we are inspired, embodied, courageous and…