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Leadership & Growth

What Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Is Teaching Me About Leadership

Ten months ago, I walked into a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class as a total beginner. I had over 20 years of Muay Thai training under my belt, but I wanted something new. Something that would take me out of my comfort zone. I wanted to feel challenged again. To not know the answer. To build …

April 30, 2025

Leadership & Growth, Pep Talks & Love Notes

A Manifesto for the Brave Lawyer: Holding the Line in a Time of Compromise

You’ve probably felt it. A subtle shift at first. A conversation that dodges hard truths. An email that doesn’t say what it means. A slow, uneasy sense that something in your environment is drifting—away from integrity, and toward something harder to name. You entered the law because justice mattered to you. Not as a concept, …

April 23, 2025

Leadership & Growth

Do You Have the Voice of a Leader?

In my work with leaders we focus a lot on leadership presence – exploring the direct and indirect ways we impact and influence others through our communication, behaviours and actions. Much of my work is about helping women discover what they want to say – clarifying their ideas, owning their unique points of view, and …

October 3, 2018

Leadership & Growth

5 Ways to Bring Minimalism to Your Work

Minimalism is not just about owning less stuff. Although, owning less stuff is a great place to start because most people find that decluttering, organizing, and letting go of things creates more calm, more time for loved ones, and more money in their bank account. The idea is that when we become acutely and intentionally …

February 1, 2018

Leadership & Growth

10 Decisions I Made to Design a Minimalist Business

This one is dedicated to my Dad. I love you. As humans we narrate our lives in reverse. Our hindsight is 20/20. A decade ago, when I started my coaching business, I did not know what I know now. I had to live the experience in order to understand it. This year marks my 11th …

September 20, 2017