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Memento Mori
When I first moved to Canada, nearly half a century ago, I lived in a small, lakeside community of (mostly) holiday homes. Across the lake from my house were the jagged brown teeth of a row of cliffs, locally known as Rattlesnake Ridge. This was sagebrush country,...
On Marketing Lifestyle Brands
As women, if we don’t take our desires, our dreams, our work, our art, our gifts seriously, then neither will the rest of the world. Instead of focusing on creating, on making what we’re called to make with all our skill and heart, we’re urged to turn our energies to...
New Year’s Dance
I don’t compress my desires into a “word of the year” but I do ask the spirit of the new year what it wants from me. I also talk with it about what is whispering, rumbling, sparking in my heart; what I would love to create, in partnership with it. Spirit of 2020,...
Building a Coherent Foundation For Business & Life
When so much that you've relied on in the past seems to be crumbling, when the ground beneath your feet is dissolving moment by moment, consider this: Your life and your business are microcosms of the societies in which we live. This is the time of necessary...
Why Healing Matters
Unhealed wounds leave us vulnerable to manipulation. At their extremity, unhealed wounds are portals through which ideologues and fundamentalists (of every stripe) recruit, program, and weaponize people to serve their own agendas of dominance and control. Healing is a...
On Desire, Purpose, Time & Capacity
Having waded out past the shoreline of seventy, I’m recognizing how the tides of desire and purpose yield to the gravitational pull of time and capacity. What does purpose look and feel like, when you’re so close to the horizon of your life that you can reach out and...
Mentoring Is My Craft
Nothing brings me greater joy than mentoring visionary women who are creating a world that works for everyone. It's the craft I’ve been immersed in, in one form or another, for all of my adult life. It's the craft that has made me who I am today. It has been my...
When Change Upends Your Life, Try This…
Whenever you create something new, you alter the topography of your inner being as well as the shape of your life and the world around you. Creativity destabilizes the existing order -- or disorder -- in ways you cannot predict or control. That liminal time before a...
Women, Business & Partnership
Many women entrepreneurs I know are the primary earners in their families; their businesses provide the bulk of their family’s income. For those who are in an intimate partnership with a member of the opposite sex, this can turn traditional gender roles on their heads...
Greenhouses & Growing Your Soul Business
A few weeks ago, I’d been flattened by a particularly nasty infection that had me in bed for most of three weeks. My son and I were away from our hometown at the time, ostensibly on vacation, which turned into something else entirely due to the depredations of a...
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