If it was December 31, 2025 - what would you look back on this year and hope to have have experienced?

Time to be present to what you want more of, noticing what the 'more of' is about...(?)

Be curious.
Is it externals?
Is it stuff?
Is it in your control and agency?
How important is it to you?
How does it add meaningful satisfaction to 'who you are'?
Why does it matter?
Who will go with you?
How will you get there?

Lead yourself well.

All leadership is personal leadership.
All growth is personal growth.

There are many ways to lead yourself well. Almost every sustainable values-based change will require the reconstruction of your body-brain-mind wiring at a cellular level.

If the timing of a Mastermind Personal Leadership Development group seems like it may be a good fit for you - I'm happy to send a full syllabus and/or only the module content to you, no strings attached.

This mastermind group is based on neuroscience, lived experience and professional leadership development education with ICF certifications.

Any questions at all, simply drop a quick dm here on social, with your email address, or email me at [email protected]

With or without a small village of like-minded folks pursuing personal development together - lead yourself well.

You have my best.

My birthday post.

I am exceptional grateful for aliveness, for second chances, for options, possibilities and snippets of values-based agency.

I am deeply conscious of my values, my purpose, a few of my shortcomings (with appreciation for those who help me see them more clearly), and the specific components of connection, creativity and contribution which provide significant meaning and satisfaction in my work and life.

I am clearly aware of the beauty and brevity of life, having forever lost too many of my favourite people over the last few years.

I acknowledge that I have little regard for ageism and perfectionism.

Much to the chagrin of many, my love for endless words—both real and improvised—continues to bring me unending enjoyment, especially when it strays from the rules of "appropriateness."

I crave solitude. I crave connection.

I have a public profile. I have a private life.

I have an insatiable appetite for learning. I sometimes overdose on too much information at once.

I am a farmer’s daughter turned leader-of-human capacity.

I adore my family just as they are.

I am fueled by purpose.

I believe in structured and productive disagreement that is mutually respectful.

I am a warrior for the value of all people.

I am a courageous protector of human dignity for all.

I am open to failed attempts.

I am a paradoxologist in theory and in practice.

I believe in giving and receiving accountability.

I have inner peace, embrace complexity, immensely curious, hold personal boundaries of wholeness, and jazzed to belong to a collective of people who are working toward more of what matters for the long game.

And did I mention that a cup of coffee is one of my favourite luxuries of ordinary things?

I'm delighted beyond measure to be present for this year's birthday. It brings me no end of pleasure to share it with the wondrous and welcome spring equinox once again this year.

I'm happy that you and I are alive together in our messy, beautiful world.

Sometimes we default to thinking that what we have isn't good enough. If only we did this, had this, achieved this, etc.

Sometimes we truly lack something truly important that is irreconcilable - a person, a dream, health, a passion, a hoped-for future.

I'm a strong advocate for the process of grief, loss and mourning.

Simultaneously in myself, I notice that I can lack appreciate for what is not yet lost, and what presently simultaneously still exists - people, dreams, passions, health and possibilities of a hoped-for future.

Both / And. It all belongs.

Life and work may not be a perfect four-leaf clover, but it can still be beautiful.

Lead yourself well.