When Pushing Through Stops Working
Burnout doesn’t always come with flames and fanfare. Sometimes it looks like quiet exhaustion, overthinking, or snapping at the people you love. This post explores burnout as your internal check engine light and how to reset before you're forced off the road.
Running to a Purpose
When an young son challenged his dad to a race, it sparked a decade-long journey of transformation. From barely finishing a 5K to training for the Ironman, this story reveals powerful truths about the company you keep, the goals you set, and how to pursue success without losing yourself in the process.
A Personal Retreat with Professional Purpose
After a personal retreat at the beach, I rediscovered the power of presence, curiosity, and intentional living—from a tiny ladybug to a heartfelt conversation with a stranger. These small moments reminded me how essential it is to pause, reset, and reconnect with what matters most.
Reclaiming Perspective: A Leadership Reset
Feeling worn down or stuck in old patterns? You don’t need to start over—sometimes all it takes is a fresh perspective. This post explores how small shifts in how you see yourself, others, and your circumstances can lead to powerful, lasting change. Restoration begins with how you choose to see.
Lost, Drifting, or Just Done.
You’re not burned out - but you’re not fully lit up either.
You’re doing what’s expected, but something inside is asking, “Is this all there is?”
If you’ve been feeling stuck, tired, or disconnected, you’re not alone. The real question is - what now?
Maybe it’s not about doing more. Maybe it’s about becoming more.
Leadership Begins With Knowing Where You’re Valued
Discover how self leadership starts with recognizing your own value and fostering mutual respect in professional spaces. This blog explores how to recalibrate when you feel unseen, and offers insight into leading with intention, authenticity and alignment, whether networking, business, or life.
Compassion in Bloom: A Recalibrated Look at Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day holds both joy and tenderness. This reflection honors the many ways we experience motherhood—celebrated, complicated, or grieving. However the day meets you, may compassion lead the way.
The Force Within: Recalibrating Your Inner Power
This May 4th, pause to reconnect with your inner power. The force you seek—clarity, creativity, and purpose—has always been within. This blog invites you to realign, reflect, and rediscover the spark beneath the noise of everyday life.
The Puzzle Is Complete: Now the Real Work Begins
At first glance, the puzzle of life might seem complete, but true growth comes from pausing to examine the connections between each piece. It’s not just about finishing the picture -it’s about recalibration. Join me as we explore how intentional reflection can help you align your life with who you’re becoming, and discover the real work that lies in understanding the puzzle of your life.
Fuel for the Journey: Celebrating the Wins
Life isn’t just about big milestones. It’s about the quiet wins—surprising conversations, small acts of courage, intentional pauses. When we stop to notice them, we find the fuel for growth, joy, and momentum.
Leadership in Low Gear: How to Get Unstuck and Keep Climbing
Ever felt like you’re doing everything right but still not moving forward? Stuck halfway up a metaphorical hill, tires spinning? This post dives into the muddy moments of life and leadership—where growth happens, tension stretches us, and reflection reveals the way forward.
The Unseen Leader
When you hear the word leader, what comes to mind?
A CEO? A politician? A coach giving a pep talk?
It’s easy to think of leadership as a position - something earned, assigned, or chosen.
But what if leadership isn’t about a title at all?
The “I CAN” Mindset: Leading Yourself to Success
Your mindset shapes your actions, decisions, relationships, and leadership. A negative mindset isn’t just about self-doubt—it directly impacts your success and opportunities. If you constantly tell yourself, “I can’t,” or “I’m not good enough,” you’re not just thinking negatively—you’re creating real barriers in your life.
Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” This means that our beliefs shape our reality. A negative mindset can lead to:
The Power of Play: Why You Need More Fun in Your Life
For most adults, play is something we used to do when we were kids. But somewhere between deadlines, responsibilities, and keeping everything together, we stopped. We started believing that play is frivolous, a waste of time, something that doesn’t belong in the “real world” of adulthood.
But here’s the reality: play is essential. It’s not just a stress reliever—it’s a powerful tool for creativity, problem-solving, emotional resilience, and even leadership. If you want to level up in life, reduce stress, and improve your relationships, play is one of the most overlooked (yet most effective) ways to do it.
The Pocket Pause: The Power of Slowing Down in Leadership
As leaders—whether in our careers, our communities, or our families—we often get so caught up in taking care of everything and everyone else that we forget to take care of ourselves. The meetings, deadlines, responsibilities, and expectations pile up, and even the things meant to bring us joy—a morning workout, a coffee break, or a moment of reflection—become just another box to check off.
We push forward, driven by results, responsibilities, and the next goal. But in the process, we risk losing something vital: Ourselves.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Navigating the Crossroads of Feeling Unappreciated at Work
Before you decide whether to stay or go, it’s important to pause and take stock of where you are. Just like a GPS prompts you to “recalculate” when you veer off track, your feelings of frustration or disconnection could be signalling a need for realignment.
Spiritual Practices for Inner Strength: Recalibrate for for the Next Season
Feeling that late-winter slump? You're not alone. As we transition into March, Nicole shares a vulnerable moment of burnout and how spiritual grounding—not rigid routines—can help you reconnect, refocus, and reboot your energy, mindset, and momentum.
Creating Boundaries that Empower: Balancing Relationships and Leadership
Imagine standing at the edge of a frozen lake in midwinter. The snow-covered ice stretches before you, pristine and inviting. It looks solid, but you know better. Some areas are thick and strong enough to support a full day of skating, while others—hidden beneath that same smooth surface—are weak and ready to crack under the slightest pressure. The only way to move safely across this lake is by understanding where the strong footing is and respecting the warning signs along the way.
Recalibrating the Soul: From Reaction to Response through Self-Love
There was a moment when it became crystal clear that something had to change.
After returning from vacation, there should have been a sense of renewal—but instead, there was a tightness in my chest, a restless energy, I was pacing the floor while the world around me remained still. Tears came without warning, and in that quiet moment, reality hit me like a ton of bricks.
I was done, stick a fork in me, extra chewy, over cooked — well done!
That was the moment when I realized something had to change. Life couldn’t continue like this….