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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Our Superhero Self
Throughout our life and career, we will take hits to our confidence. A project gone awry. Being laid off. Overlooked for a promotion. Rejection. Negative feedback. The list is endless. Depending on the scale of the hit, our confidence can waver for a day or years. On...
Personal Branding vs. Self Promotion
Personal branding and self-promotion – what is the difference? Some people blend the two together and use them interchangeably. Yet, they are not the same. Your personal brand is with you for the long term. Something you grow and nurture over time. On the other hand,...
Professional Reading
As a reader, when I look at reading stats, I’m surprised. Looking at this chart, nearly half of people (46%) in the US didn’t read a book last year. Then, I wondered how many read professionally. Research suggests only 21% (11 in 100) of readers choose business books....
Are You a Book or a Tree?
Gretchen Rubin has started posing this question: “Are you a book with chapters or a tree with roots?” – Gretchen Rubin She is trying to learn more about how people look at the phases of their life. Do you move from chapter to chapter or branch out from your roots? To...
Weekly Summary – 10.19.24
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! What I’ve Been Up To / Thinking About This week, I’ve continued to refine my thinking and approach to personal branding. We all have a personal brand – created intentionally or ad hoc. I’ve reinforced my POV that many of the...
Personal Brand Influence on LinkedIn
One dimension of our personal brand value is our influence. Understanding if others look to us for advice and knowledge. We can get a feel for our influence at work based on interactions. Online, knowing our influence with people we don’t know is more challenging. For...
Fluid Routines
When we think of routines, fluid doesn’t usually come to mind. People focus on stacking habits into routines. We have these routines sprinkled throughout our days. Little groupings of to-do lists to make sure we keep good habits. Lately, I’ve heard more people talk...
Known For
What do you want to be known for? The more seasoned we become in our career, the more challenging this question can become. Our list of knowledge, skills, and experience grows. We don’t want to be pigeonholed into just one thing. Yet, if we share everything, our...
Routine-Quake
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about lifequakes in a post about job loss. Lifequakes are disruptive life moments that can be negative or positive. A few negative examples include job loss, death of a loved one, or divorce. Positive quakes can include having a baby,...
Balanced
Work-Life balance. Harmony. Integration. Lots of words have been used. Much debate has been had. Is balance possible? Balance is not only possible, it’s a fact. There is balance in your life. Every day we each have 24 hours. List how the last 24 were spent. Create...
Weekly Summary – 10.12.24
What I’ve Been Up To This past week, I’ve been working on a few content projects that will be coming out on the blog and in workshops soon. One project is digging into personal branding and creating exercises we can do to better articulate our personal brand, and in...
Are You Procrastinating?
I recently listened to a Marie Forleo podcast episode about procrastination. Some of the stats she shared were shocking: The average person spends 218 minutes a day or 55 days a year procrastinating. And procrastination costs the US economy 70 billion a year! She also...
Lifestyle Planning
On an episode of Cal Newport’s podcast, he talked about lifecycle-centric planning. The episode was great and led me to this blog post on his website. The primary message is this: “Fix the lifestyle you want. Then work backwards from there.” – Cal Newport The entire...
Overcoming Weakness
I’ve been thinking about weaknesses lately. For those who know me, I prefer the Gallup CliftonStrengths approach to strength-based growth. In fact, when I do talk about weaknesses, I often mention “strengths in overdrive”. Because when our strengths are in overdrive...
Freelance / Solopreneur Rates
I continue to admire freelancers and solopreneurs. The tenacity to stick with their craft, find clients, and make the financials work. It’s not easy to get established. Everyone says it takes 3 years. From the outside, that seems crazy. On the inside, you get it. Many...