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The guy was standing there naked, filling his water bottle. Right in front of a sign that said: “This Is A Relaxation Zone.” Then he startled me by asking, “What’s the latest on the Middle East?” We were at a Korean spa. I was sitting a few feet away in the lounge area—fully dressed, freshly […]

For me, it started in impossibility. I’m a first-generation American, French Canadian origin.My parents grew up in rural Quebec. Neither of them finished high school.College wasn’t just far away—it wasn’t even something we talked about. Then I got to 9th grade in a Washington DC suburb.And suddenly—college was everywhere.SATs. Campus visits. My classmates were already […]

The story behind the shift (and what she’s building).

Every Sunday afternoon, it would start—the tightening in my chest. The afternoon, my stomach joining in. By bedtime, my jaw clenched. This was more than 10 years ago. I was back in a frontline consulting role after several years in an internal one. I wanted to return to the wilds, thinking it would be easy. […]

Roger Federer told the Dartmouth Class of 2024: Negative energy is wasted energy. And look—I want to agree. He’s a legend. His backhand has been described as a work of art. Yes, his speech is full of incredible wisdom. [You can watch the full thing on YouTube, 25 mins] But a friend shared this Instagram reel of his speech where he […]

It was 6:30am and I wasn’t fully awake. I was pedaling on the stationary bike when I heard it. “Wait–did they really just say that?“ I caught myself looking around the busy gym—like, did anyone else hear that? On Maureen Wiley Clough’s It Gets Late Early podcast, she and guest Bradley Richardson brought humor and […]

I was at a fireside chat recently on what makes a winning startup founder. One of the panelists—a serial founder turned VC—outlined the three stages of building a business: 🏢 Phase 1: Product-market fit🏢 Phase 2: Growth🏢 Phase 3: Scale He explained that each phase calls for a different type of leadership. And for Phase 1? “You need […]

I’d been watching Andor this weekend, which led me back to Rogue One. There’s a line from Jyn Erso that hasn’t left my brain since: “It’s not a problem if you don’t look up.” — Jyn Erso, Rogue One You don’t have to be a Star Wars fan to feel the weight of that. It’s […]

“Your business works on you before it works for you.” A coach told me that early in my journey, and it lodged in my brain ever since. At the time, I was deep in my mindset coach training, running headfirst into old corporate patterns: 🏢 Seeking broad consensus.🏢 People pleasing.🏢 Getting buy-in from the “right” […]

“Why isn’t this working?” That was the loop running in my head. I’m hunching over my laptop, hiding from a spring sunburn in the Moxy lobby in Portland.Refresh LinkedIn—again: My corporate professional brain kicks in: Push harder. Produce more. Fix it. So I drafted three (sometimes more) LinkedIn posts a week, riffed on content while […]