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Mindful Leadership: 14 Ways to Be a More Mindful Leader
Unlock Your Potential: Master Mindful Leadership with Values-Based Practices In addition to creating a culture keepers program to support the ins and out of crafting a values-aligned culture. It’s just as important that all the humans in your workplace are taking care...
How to Get Feedback When Someone Leaves the Company
Help shift your company culture by listening and taking action. The way your company hires and fires people is a true reflection of your culture. There are places that have no issue letting people go at the drop of a hat to cut costs, and there are places that do...
Systems and Processes: How to Improve Your Company’s
Here is help to make your company run smoother. There are formal and informal systems and processes in every organization. Some make things run a lot smoother, and some create a bottleneck. These are often the areas of opportunity where people start to say things like...
Employee Handbook Upgrades
How to Improve Your Company’s Policies and Procedures In your company’s employee handbook, you likely have a whole bunch of policies and procedures listed. Some people will read it and refer to it regularly. Others will never open it outside of the required signatures...
How to Live an Abundant Life: A 38th Birthday Manifesto
38 Powerful Lessons for Living an Abundant and Aligned Life Leading up to my 38th Birthday, I activated my value of reflection to go into the depths of gratitude I have for the abundant, aligned and dynamic life I have the privilege of creating for each day. These 38...
Tiny Home: Wisdom Gained From Becoming a Tiny Homeowner
Embracing Tiny Home Living: Wisdom and Challenges from a Life Vision Realized on a Remote Ranch Between visits to the park, getting lost in the garden, camping, and hiking trips, ever since I was a kid we had ongoing visits to my uncles’ mesmerizing ranch in Idaho....
Tips for Authors: Wisdom Gained After A 1-Year Reflection
Reflections on Becoming a Best-Selling Author: Lessons from My First Year Did you know that only about 0.0025% of authors sell at least 1,000 copies of their book? Learning that made me gasp, take a step back and give myself a loving pat on the back. With several...
Health and Wellness Tips: A New Year Reflection
22 Easy Ways to Boost Your Health and Wellness: Start the New Year Right One of my core values that drives me is health. This is something that has been important to me my entire life growing up as an athlete but my definition of health has changed throughout the...
21 Best Shows & Movies we Watched in 2021
Top 21 Must-Watch Movies and Shows of 2021: Our Favorite Picks for Quality Entertainment Let's get real - 2 years of social distancing has meant we're on the hunt for quality media to take in. Here's the list of our favorites that we consumed last year, in no...
Surrender Poem: Wisdom Gained from a Year of Surrender
Embracing Transformation: A Year of Surrender and Self-Discovery My surrender poem... Waking up from someone else's dream her arms stretched wide, heart opened, and mind rewired. She saw clearly now. As if taking off someone else's glasses she'd been prescribed. Her...
Performance Review Examples: How to Improve Yours
How to Conduct Values-Based Performance Reviews: A Guide to Aligning Metrics, Accountability, and Employee Growth Some people love them, and others loathe them: annual reviews, so I wanted to share some performance review examples with you. For starters, let’s just...
How to align your budgets and investments with your values
Where you invest is a direct reflection of what you value Because I’m not a finance expert or an accountant, I reached out to my accountant, Matt Bralove, and former consulting CFO Kesha-Simone Jones to weigh in and share their genius. It was fascinating to hear how...
How to hire employees
Here are some new hire onboarding tips At a big annual conference I attended, the keynote speaker gave a moving talk on how their company lives their core values. She went on and on, making grand statements about the ways in which they harnessed their beliefs to...
How to Appreciate, Recognize and Celebrate your Employees
Unlocking Employee Motivation: The Power of Appreciation, Recognition, and Celebration in the Workplace Appreciation, recognition, and celebration are three of the most powerful and effective ways to keep your employees motivated, engaged, and proud of their impact....
Employee Engagement and Retention: How to Improve Yours
Improve Retention and Engagement at Work through Core Values Your values can absolutely (and, in my humble opinion, should) be the way that people feel engaged and, therefore, stay committed in their roles. But how many organizations harness core values in that way?...
One on One Meeting Template: How to be effective
Here are the keys to having effective 1x1 meetings As humans, we all make mistakes. We all have days when we wake up on the wrong side of the bed, let our stress out on others, or simply don’t have our shit together. No one is immune to those realities. Although we...
How to give feedback
Here are 5 tips on how to give feedback When it comes to giving and receiving feedback, here are five tips to give yourself and others permission to be human. 1. Share your intent before content. I heard this expression when undertaking a crucial conversation training...
How to make team meetings more engaging with core values
Enhance Team Meetings: Proven Practices to Align with Company Values and Boost Productivity One of the cornerstones of most organizations lies within their ongoing meetings and the team dynamics that do or do not support their values. It’s incredible how a meeting can...
Expectations + Agreement = Satisfaction
A winning formula for company culture The value promises process consists of creating clearly defined expectations. Your team is saying, “These are my expectations on how I will behave and how my colleagues will behave when it comes to how we accomplish our work...
Heart-Centered Accountability
Creating a Culture of Loving Accountability: Transforming Feedback from Fear to Compassion In the words of Tamara Renaye, “Accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others.” With that in mind, we must foster...
Expectations − Agreement = Disappointment
A cause of workplace stress Expectations − Agreement = Disappointment is one of my favorite formulas because it makes so much sense. I was given this gem by my community colleague, leadership coach, and cherished friend Lori Raggio. So often in life, we come into a...
How to Live an Abundant Life: A 37th Birthday Manifesto
How to Live an Abundant Life: 37 Transformative Insights for Personal Growth and Happiness Leading up to my 37th Birthday, I activated my value of "reflection" to go into the depths of gratitude I have for the abundant, aligned and beautiful life that I have the...
How Your Values Connect to Your Company’s Values
Workplace Culture Change Starts with You There’s often pushback from employees who don’t understand why they have to focus so much on themselves; they say, “Isn’t this about the company?” When that happens, it gives me the incredible opportunity to educate and empower...
Values Work Is Deep Work
Making a change in your workplace culture starts with you Whenever I facilitate company values work with organizations, it’s a two- to three-day retreat experience, where the first full day is all about the individual. We start by walking each person through the...
Aligned or Aspirational Workplace Culture?
Are your company's behaviors in or out of alignment with your company values? If you have a set of stated organizational values and your behaviors don’t reflect them, you do not have an aligned culture. You have an aspirational culture of pie-in-the-sky thinking...
Workplace Culture Statistics: The Facts
The Proven Impact of Workplace Culture: Boost Employee Engagement, Retention, and Productivity Those feel-good workplaces are more than just temporary happiness. Intentional and protected environments have a direct effect on employee engagement, retention,...
Evolving from Culture Killers to Culture Keepers
Transforming Toxic Work Culture: How to Shift from Culture Killers to Culture Keepers You can and will be able to shift from culture killers to culture keepers if you choose to. It’s hard to admit it, but I have justified and participated in toxic behavior to avoid...
Culture Keepers and Culture Killers
Those who make you feel warm and fuzzy, and those whom you avoid like the plague. When I started my company, I found that it was harder than I realized to translate workplace culture into phrasing that was both productive and relatable. Without a doubt there is a...
The Future of Work in the United States
Leaders are going to need to develop their emotional intelligence skills. According to the US Census, in this country 90 percent of workers were farmers in 1790; less than 2 percent are today. In just that statistic alone, we can see that we’ve moved significantly out...
The Mirror
How conscious leaders build self-awareness Most of us need to take a deep look in the mirror to see where we can improve ourselves before we have the integrity to ask others to improve themselves. This idea translates and flows into all aspects of our lives. Think...
My Quest to Become a Cowgirl Part 4
My Transformative Journey: Becoming a True Cowgirl in the Mountains of Idaho - Part 4 In case you didn't know, I'm on a quest to become a Cowgirl! Not like a fun and games, dress-up cowgirl, but a fierce woman who rides horseback with confidence through the mountains...
Fixing the Floor
How to build your workplace culture foundation I have the immense pleasure today of being the values guide for conscious leaders and their organizations, transforming their groups into tribes. It’s always different and it’s always the same. That’s because it always...
You Can’t Outsource Your Culture
Culture Consultants Cannot “Fix” Your Workplace Culture Culture exists whether you do something about it or not. An external culture consultant cannot come in and “fix” it for you. You can’t outsource your workplace culture. It’s impossible, since the culture is...
The Energy of Workplace Culture
Workplace culture is all about feelings and emotions Encyclopedia.com defines corporate culture as “the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. Derived from an organization’s goals,...
3 Ways Writing a Book Taught Me More Than School
3 Powerful Lessons Writing a Book Taught Me That School Never Did When I submitted my final manuscript for Permission to Be Human: The Conscious Leader’s Guide to Creating a Values-Driven Culture, it felt like I had just turned in the most important document of my...
2021: My Year of SURRENDER
2021: Embracing Surrender and Reflection on Healing, Trust, and Intuition A poem of reflection as I kick off my year of Surrender and honor the past years of Healing, Trust, and Intuition. After years of controlling, questioning and doubt, she finally chose to...
3 Ways to Spark Joy During the Pandemic Holidays
3 Powerful Ways to Spark Joy During Pandemic Holidays: Finding Connection, Love, and Silver Linings In a time when many of us are spontaneously bursting into tears, having anxiety attacks, and heavy doses of loneliness, it can feel like an extra hard blow that our...
Create Your Personal Silver Linings Playbook
Finding Silver Linings: A Practical Guide to Personal Growth During Tough Times In a time when every day in real life feels like some type of survivor reality tv show episode, it can be really hard to see the good in all of it. For most people, it's much easier to...
Wisdom Gained Through a Year of Grace
Embracing Self-Love and Wisdom: Reflections from a Year of Grace Earlier this month we celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. A few days ago, I celebrated my 36th birthday. And next week, we will celebrate 5 years in business. September is always filled with such...
6 Months of Upside Down to Right Side Up
Transforming Challenges into Triumphs: My Journey from Overwhelmed to Empowered It's been a bit since you've heard from me. And, likely like you, it's because I've been feeling my way through the last 6 months, resetting, re-prioritizing, and realigning. From...
Work Life Boundaries…Get Them Back!
How to Regain Work-Life Balance: Reestablish Boundaries in the Remote Work Era When we were first hit with the news that we'd all be working remotely, there was an initial rise in hope around how much glorious time would be recouped from no longer sitting in traffic...
How do you reply to a sad message?
10 Effective Ways to Respond to Others' Sadness: A Guide to Empathy and Understanding Nowadays, it's really normal to hear people speak about their sadness. It may be in the form of a complaint or frustration, but that underlying emotion is pure, raw sadness. As a...
Recognizing Privilege & Giving Back
How to Recognize Privilege and Give Back: Practical Steps for Making a Positive Impact During Times of Crisis When everything I know to be "normal" all of a sudden goes away, I find myself falling into a deep place of reflection. Asking myself questions like... What...
How to Work from Home + Strengthen Your Relationship
How to Successfully Work from Home and Strengthen Your Relationship: Tips for Couples "The only constant in life is change." -Heraclitus. Boy, are we going through some big change! At times, it can seem like each hour presents a new reality. And for many, that reality...
Meet our May 2nd Life Lens Co-Hosts: Mali & Abdul
Learn more about our Life Lens co-hosts Why are you co-hosting this event? Mali: It's one of the best events I've attended that continually gives back to you, in a meaningful way. I firmly believe that every human needs space for reflection and connection, so I'm...
Toltec Wisdom Gained from don Miguel Ruiz
Transform Your Life: Wisdom from don Miguel Ruiz and Toltec Traditions Over the holiday and into the new year, I had the humbling experience of traveling to Teotihuacán, Mexico, with Don Miguel Ruiz and his sons, Miguel Jr. and Jose to gain Toltec Wisdom. As a...
Wisdom Gained from a Year of TRUST
Embracing TRUST: Lessons and Transformations from a Year of Self-Discovery My “word” for 2019 was TRUST. Instead of making a typical New Year’s Resolution, a dear friend inspired me to choose a word that would serve as a compass and guardrails for what I wanted to...
Meet our Jan 18th Life Lens Co-Hosts: Annie & Cory
Discover Your Authentic Self: Join Annie & Cory for the Life Lens Workshop on Jan 18th Why are you co-hosting this event? Annie: I attended this program for the first time a little over a year ago and I am completely serious when I say that I've thought about that...
Lessons from Kids
Discovering Inner Peace: Lessons Learned from Kids at the Bouldering Gym One of the things I love the most about bouldering (a form of rock climbing) is that it serves as a meditation practice for me while also allowing me to move my body and use my flexibility,...
Wedding Values: An Officiant’s Lens on Marriage
The Role of Wedding Values: Insights from an Experienced Officiant I have had the incredible joy and honor of marrying many couples and witnessing their wedding values. A dream came true when a friend and former leadership volunteer from a young professional program I...
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