Mar 17 3 min When "Cutting It" Counts Starting a business is never easy. There are many starts, stops, and pivots. Ask any business owner and they can reveal the harrowing...
Feb 9 4 min Your Personal Brand in a Virtual World Originally posted by The Bond Consulting Group on January 21, 2021 The key to projecting a desired brand or image is in how you show up...
Jan 17 5 min Busy is the New Happy...or Is It? Frequently we all hear it, and many of us say it as a response to simple questions like, “How was your day?”, “What’s going on at work?”,...
Dec 20, 2020 3 min The Empty Highchair Holiday grief is a real thing. As I walk around my house admiring the Christmas lights, I found myself getting stuck in the dining room....
Nov 25, 2020 6 min Finding Fullness without Food - A Journey through Wounds, Worth, and Willpower Once again. A hundred million times again, I lay surrounded by a dozen wrappers of mini candy bars that I secretly hid from my kids. What...
Nov 13, 2020 3 min Change is Hard, and it's Hard to be Brave all the Time. Permission to Fall Apart and Make Changes. There's a Chinese proverb that goes “A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."...
Nov 4, 2020 3 min Meet Abby Hanlon and Hear Her Story I knew something wasn’t right. A mere 2 hours before, I had experienced an amazing natural birth with my second baby boy and was...
Oct 21, 2020 3 min Everything Starts With Effort What’s the last great idea that you had? What did you do with it? Most people have some great ideas, but don’t have the tools to bring...
Oct 9, 2020 1 min October Power Hour with BWP and Dare 2 Declare The Brave Women Project is joined by Dare 2 Declare founder, Debbi Sluys, for an incredible experience of using BIG words to do brave...
Sep 30, 2020 1 min When Women Get Brave, They Use Brave Words Introducing Debbi Sluys Generous is my 2020 powerword. Who knew in January what this year would bring? Do we ever know? Terminal...
Sep 16, 2020 5 min So, Who Is This Woman in the Mirror? Okay, truth talk. I’ve lived with the reality of impostor syndrome for years and years—especially early in my career, but if I’m being...
Sep 10, 2020 3 min When the World Gets Crazy When the world gets crazy, and it is getting crazier by the day, there is a serious temptation to engage in the crazy, whether that means...
Sep 2, 2020 3 min Don't Lose Yourself Taking Over the World This morning, as I was rushing to get ready, I checked in on my social media and saw important words from a current friend and former...
Aug 19, 2020 2 min Good Grief For some people, Grief shows up without a name, like the unidentified sales person knocking at your door in the middle of a Hallmark...
Aug 5, 2020 4 min Fill Up for the Empty Tank As I was driving to drop my kids off at daycare this morning, I glanced down at the gas gauge in the car. Uh-oh! Less than a quarter...
Jul 22, 2020 3 min The Next Brave Thing Leadership is doing the next brave thing, regardless of who is willing to do it for you, with you, or in spite of you. Fear is terrible...
Jul 8, 2020 6 min Motherhood and Apple Pie I can’t. I can’t. I can’t. It’s not working. I’m not working. This isn’t working. The track of frustrations was playing on and on in my...
Jul 2, 2020 3 min The Truth About Boundaries Of all the B-words that gets a bad name, boundaries has got to be nearing the top of the list. Why? Because, in my experience, many...
Jun 24, 2020 3 min My Dispositional Leadership “If you love them, they will follow you anywhere,” the great advice I received in my undergraduate days, preparing for student teaching...
Jun 11, 2020 2 min When Women Lead - Dispositional Leadership What else can guide us as women who lead? Leaning into dispositional leadership. Other threats to women leading, regardless of their...
Jun 3, 2020 4 min When Women Lead - Even More Numbers That MATTER Regardless of your gender, position, or title, the Impostor Syndrome exists in about 70% of the people walking around. The numbers that I...
May 27, 2020 3 min When Women Lead - Let's Get Familiar With the History and the Numbers What happens when women lead? I wonder. There are two important dates that women who lead need to be familiar with, and one that explains...
May 20, 2020 1 min When Women Lead What happens when women lead? A common misconception is that women who lead must lead like men. It’s common because the bias about women...
May 13, 2020 3 min The Imposter Syndrome Let’s talk about head trash. You know. The voice inside that challenges our success, questions our motives, and diminishes our...
