The Intersection
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you and your company. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help individuals take ownership of their career and life and help companies create a space where team members thrive.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career or the company you are part of, this is the place.
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EVEolution: 26 Years Later
In 2000, Faith Popcorn wrote the book EVEolution: The 8 Truths to Marketing to Women. At the time, I was working at GM and just started a Brand Character Manager role at Saturn. The book focused on how women make purchasing decisions and how that approach differs from...
The Formula for Willpower
Willpower is a core element of the hope equation developed by Charles Snyder. I’ve written about willpower before and continue to think about why we sometimes need more or less of it to get things done. To remind us of the definition, willpower is both “The ability to...
Are You Anxious?
Anxious is an interesting word. There are two meanings that are quite different. Anxious can mean “uneasiness of mind” = worried. Anxious can also mean “earnestly wishing” = eager. Worried is dreading while eager is anticipating. My Story Historically, I’ve tended to...
Who Am I?
This is a question we don’t ask ourselves very often. Especially once our adult life begins. We start defining ourselves by education, school, work, and family. Yet, under the surface, all these answers are just titles. They don’t really tell anyone anything about us....
Weekly Summary – 3.14.26
This week, I wasn’t sure which blog post to highlight as they all take many different directions. I’ve landed on the one that focuses on our personal development. I was introduced to some research that suggests we are always in a state of doing, being, becoming, and...
Imagine the Possibilities
Recent years have triggered more conversation around the shifts that are defining the future of work. The ability to work from anywhere is just one of the trends. Trying to adjust old systems may prove to be more difficult than setting aside “the way it was done” and...
The Forgotten Generation
I read a Fast Company article that highlighted an Amy Poehler quote from a year ago. “The Boomers are all about money. Gen X is like, ‘is it all about money’? Millennials are like, ‘where is the money’? And Gen Z is like, ‘what is money’?” – Amy Poehler (Gen...
AI for Agency Strategy
I recently read an article from MarTech that both excited and troubled me. The piece was titled “The AI era needs strategists grounded in expertise and guided by context”. At the beginning, the premise is that organizations (specifically agencies) will need more...
Do You Really Talk Like This?
I’m at an interesting point with AI. I love some things and I’m growing irritated with others. People are referring to “AI slop”. The massive amount of low-quality, mass-produced content created by AI. This “slop” can lack accuracy, effort, and originality. There is...
Do. Be. Become. Belong.
In 2022, Occupational Scientist Ann Wilcock wrote a paper that suggested: “We are all in a constant loop of being, doing, and becoming.” Her work also including a 4th element – belonging, that was explored further here. The framework suggests that health stems from...
Weekly Summary – 3.7.26
This week, the highlight takes a shift from personal branding & self-development to marketing and the evolution of organizational structures. The landscape of marketing (and employment in general) has been shifting since the Great Recession (around 2010). The...
Find Your Socks
When you leave the security of a full-time job, you lose financial stability. Some leave by choice. Others do not. The result is the same. There is no check arriving in the mail. As a result, you pull back to the basics. Quickly calculating a “financial floor” where...
Organizational Structures
I’ve always been focused on organization. Data. Trends. Customer Segmentation. Information. Closets. Pantries. You name it, I look for structure in chaos. I want to find ways to sort, group, and organize to make systems better. Throughout my career, an area that I’m...
The Evolution of Marketing
Marketing and advertising have evolved over the years, but many structures remain. I’m seeing the collision of trends in three areas that indicate we might be on the edge of reimagining how the industry operates. Both marketing teams inside organizations and their...
One Idea
Have you read The Let Them Theory by Mel Robins? I read it about a year ago and continue to think about the beginning of the book – her story. She talked about her path and how she came to write this book as well as her prior books. What struck me is the succinct...