I found the card above in a box of old, old family photos. On the back was printed:

What is your relationship to urgency? What is constant urgency costing you? I believe igniting our creativity is vital for transformative change, and especially for narrative change in the international aid and philanthropy sector. It requires all of us to identify ourselves as communicators and to take bigger “creative risks.”…

Four academics published a paper in 2020 entitled, “Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit.” (See article and full citation here.) In it they presented the “C.R.A.P. framework for dealing with workplace bullshit”: Comprehend Recognize Act Exit. Escape from BS. Voice. Confront the BS. Loyalty. Accept the BS. Neglect…

We must prepare for it. — Breaking cycles is hard work. It’s generational work. It’s existential work. It’s spiritual work. As people who are committed to and paid to(!) bring about more justice and equity in the world is — I dare say — it is our professional work. And, there are real consequences to speaking…

I am an oldest child. I am an Enneagram 1, the “reformer.” These two personality traits alone make me a natural advice giver. (I’m also a Projector in Human Design, an INFJ, a Cancer sun, Cancer rising, and Virgo moon.) Then add in that I navigate complex trauma in my…

War is never really about what the U.S. media says it’s about. After hearing two “good liberal” friends parroting the “no good options” talking point last week, I wrote this for them: It’s about oil and money — imperialism — every time, and a military industrial complex whose shareholders will…

Here’s my invitation to you, and to myself, today: Release yourself fully from the constraints of “professionalism” and dare to consider what might be a bigger, bolder vision of creativity and leadership waiting for you. Ooof, that’s quite the ask, I know. I believe we need to connect to our…

I have been lamenting the state of the internet for a while, consciously and unconsciously, as I watch my thumb keep the feed rolling past my eyeballs. …

I dropped the coffee beans container on the floor this morning. They went everywhere. As I sat down on the floor to clean them up, I noticed just how dirty the floor was too. I thought, “I have an option here. I can try to avoid the crumbs, and spend…