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Back when my daughter was learning to ride her bike, we gave her everything she needed. The right bike, a helmet, a safe space, and plenty of coaching. One time, we were with her for two hours, and everything was going great. So we decided to up the ante a bit — we went to […]

How do we face situations that are so far outside our control they’d make anyone’s head spin?  I recently had a conversation with a friend that has stuck with me. Their child is in a wheelchair after an accident. As we can imagine, they’re pretty shaken. Miserable, even. It’s a really dark time. Honestly, we […]

We recently attended our dance banquet, and I want to start today with a quick story that sparked something that’s been on my mind ever since. At the banquet, the girls each drew a name and had to come up with a meaningful award for that person. Not something silly or surface-level, but something that […]

Remember Pets.com? It was a big deal in the late 90s—and it crashed just as fast. Around that same time, another company was quietly gaining ground: Amazon. Today, we’re examining what led one to fail and the other to redefine the game. Now, I know everyone is familiar with Amazon. But hardly anyone remembers Pets.com, […]

The space between where you are now and where you are trying to go is going to be messy. I talk a lot about deciding to grow — about closing the chapter you’re in and starting a new one. But here’s something I probably don’t say enough:  The next chapter always starts messy. It doesn’t […]

This whole conversation actually didn’t start with anything. I noticed in my coaching practice, but I wanted to share it, because it’s something we should all think about.  I started looking into the lives of professional athletes and their coaches—especially those whose parents were their first coaches. And what struck me was how differently these […]

What Are Your Standards, Really? I was picking up my daughter from dance recently and ran into one of my old dance teachers. She is 88 now, and I couldn’t even sprint over to her fast enough. I didn’t train under her all that long, but we had a very special bond. We were talking […]

My daughter came home from school recently and told me about a “mindset” poster her teacher has on the wall. It says: “A bad brain says I can’t. A good brain says I can’t… yet”.  I thought that was awesome. I love that she knew the word mindset when she was talking about it. And […]

We spend so much of our lives trying to control, fix, or outrun discomfort—believing that if we just push harder or plan better, things will finally fall into place. But what if the real shift begins not with resistance, but with acceptance? Not passive surrender, but a clear-eyed embrace of what is. In this reflection, […]

I read a book in college that has stayed with me ever since, and as I was preparing for work recently, it popped back up. It is called the Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck, who was a therapist in the 1960-1970s. He actually wrote that book in 1978, but it stands the test of […]