Sometimes we don’t know how strong we are until our world shatters. I’m a big believer that the only words that hold power are the ones I live. And that sacred, raw, truth-full courage is, as Brené Brown famously said, “… to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.” But to […]

Back-to-back all-nighters.  Burning the midnight oil, and the 2 AM, 3 AM, and 4 AM oil.  You are pouring your blood, sweat, tears, sleep and your Starbucks budget into this thing you are creating. Finally, the day arrives, you click publish and launch your masterpiece into the world. Then crickets.   You share on social media […]

What feels like a lifetime ago, I walked into my MBA level accounting class and promptly asked my professor if I could color the books instead of balancing them.  I was joking, kind of. Numbers and I have never gotten along too well. I could write an essay about how calculus works but I rarely […]

I was sitting at my desk in our little outpost in the middle of South Sudan.  {I’m the pale one in the turquoise with the gorgeous gaggle of not-pale children.} I stared at the wall trying to figure out some way the impossible was going to happen for my adopted family of 130 kids and […]