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You’re offered an opportunity, a leap ahead. You’re excited. A chance to go big. That leap takes courage. Your excitement turns into anxiety. You hesitate. Imposter syndrome shows its ugly head. You doubt your abilities. It’s not your skill or accomplishments that brought you to this point, but luck. Surely if you took advantage of this opportunity, everyone will find out you are a fraud. And then what? You walk away. But wait. Isn’t there something you can do to feel...

Nothing compares to that moment in a conversation when you are fully and completely focused on the other person – and they know it. Unless you are the other person who feels heard and understood.  That power goes deep into who we are as humans. Connecting to one another in conversation. Affirming our importance in this world and to one another. This is being fully focused in conversation, and it takes practice. It’s especially difficult during remote conversations. One of the...

I am human. I never thought I was superhuman, mind you. But sometimes I forget what it is to be human. That it’s normal to be imperfect and we shouldn’t beat ourselves up about it. And it’s not the failures and falls that make us human either, it’s the getting back up. It’s that power to choose the next action that is human. I’d forgotten that falling and getting back up strengthens us. Getting back up and taking the next action....