Growth

When Breast Cancer Challenges Your Identity

A year after my own breast cancer surgery — and through a cascade of other health challenges, including surgery for a broken elbow — I see more than ever how essential this conversation is. Not just personally, but professionally, and systemically. The way we speak about strength, identity, and agency — especially in the context of women’s health — shapes far more than we realize. When Breast Cancer Challenges Your Identity For high-achieving entrepreneurs and [...]

2025-04-25T13:53:39-05:00Categories: Anxiety, Breast Cancer, Empowerment, Growth, Health|Comments Off on When Breast Cancer Challenges Your Identity
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A High Achiever’s Hidden Struggle: Agency, Sovereignty, Self-Authority

I want to share some insights about a hidden struggle that many high achievers face, one that I've personally grappled with throughout my life. It's a topic that is rarely discussed at its deepest level; it's incredibly vulnerable and lies at the core of our being. It profoundly impacts every aspect of our lives. By starting this conversation, we can support each other in navigating these challenges and stepping into our full potential. For [...]

2025-04-03T11:08:24-05:00Categories: Authenticity, Discernment, Empowerment, Growth, The 1%|Comments Off on A High Achiever’s Hidden Struggle: Agency, Sovereignty, Self-Authority
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Meet them where they are… Not where you want them to be

This principle is crucial for high achievers - not just in leading others, but in navigating our own growth. Our drive for excellence often triggers our resistance to accepting current reality, pushing us to force change rather than allow transformation.

For high achievers, this resistance may show up as: [...]

2025-01-27T15:10:27-05:00Categories: Growth, Power Drivers, Resistance|Comments Off on Meet them where they are… Not where you want them to be
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The Power of Hidden Truths Emerging

For decades, high achievers have shared their feelings and experiences with me privately – in therapy and mentoring sessions, behind closed doors. Now, as I bring these conversations beyond individual and group sessions into the open, something extraordinary is beginning to unfold.

As these hidden patterns are acknowledged publicly, it creates permission for collective recognition and healing. The energy locked in private struggles begins to transform into creative power. [...]

2025-01-23T11:31:15-05:00Categories: Empowerment, Growth, Power Drivers|Comments Off on The Power of Hidden Truths Emerging
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High Achievers: Who Else Has Been Labelled Difficult

High Achievers – outliers, trailblazers, innovators – are often labeled “difficult.” Too intense, too demanding, too argumentative, too dismissive of others.

The very qualities that make us “difficult” are often the same ones that drive our greatest contributions. [...]

2025-01-21T11:39:00-05:00Categories: Discernment, Growth, Power Drivers|Comments Off on High Achievers: Who Else Has Been Labelled Difficult
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A Prediction Unfolds in a Surprising Way

Interestingly, after New Year's, a reel came on my FB feed predicting my life would be very different by February. While I couldn't have predicted the ways, I'm watching this unfold.

Have you ever felt like you were wrecked, torn apart and not put back together yet?

I've often heard from my highly successful, seemingly unflappable clients that they have. [...]

2025-01-17T11:01:56-05:00Categories: Discernment, Empowerment, Growth, Resistance|Comments Off on A Prediction Unfolds in a Surprising Way
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The Litmus Test Question: When Yes Creates More Questions

A question came up about my recent post on the Litmus Test Question - What do you do when multiple opportunities pass the test?

It seems simple: getting a 'yes' from the Litmus Test Question should make decisions clear. But what happens when an opportunity aligns with your purpose yet your plate is already full? This challenge frequently faces high achievers, particularly entrepreneurs. [...]

2025-01-16T15:51:50-05:00Categories: Discernment, Empowerment, Growth|Comments Off on The Litmus Test Question: When Yes Creates More Questions
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A Hidden Challenge to High Achiever Authenticity

Authenticity is a word that has been overused, misused, and used as a tactic.

Yet, that doesn't make it less important or discount the value of being truly authentic. I could (and will in other posts) discuss the impact of authenticity – and the lack of it – on business, relationships, health, and well-being. [...]

2025-01-16T15:51:40-05:00Categories: Authenticity, Empowerment, Growth|Comments Off on A Hidden Challenge to High Achiever Authenticity
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Will you join me?

I have a question I've asked myself for years. I call it my Litmus Test question; it helps me make decisions and track what I'm doing – and who I'm being–  every single day.

I've shared it with my patients, clients, and students as well as on my website, in posts, and when I speak. [...]

2025-01-16T15:53:09-05:00Categories: Empowerment, Growth, Power Drivers|Comments Off on Will you join me?
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The Unique Challenges and Impact of High Achievers in 2025

Most approaches to high achievement focus on information or, at best, transformation - though often falling short of that goal. Change is often superficial or short-lived, simply masquerading as transformation. While information and transformation are valuable and may be stepping stones, accessing radical creativity, courage, and infinite possibilities requires transmutation. This isn't just changing structure (as in transformation) - it's operating at the core of what is - true alchemy. This isn't just about [...]

2025-01-06T15:19:24-05:00Categories: Change, Empowerment, Growth|Comments Off on The Unique Challenges and Impact of High Achievers in 2025
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