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
An audio version of this post aired on CBC Radio's weekend program, NXNW, on December 4, 2021. You can listen to it here. * 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...
Mentoring Is My Craft
Nothing brings me greater joy than mentoring visionary women founders and CEOs 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...
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 of us entrepreneurs are the primary earners in our families; our businesses provide the bulk of our family’s income. For those who are in an intimate partnership this can present challenges, both within the relationship and in the business. If you are an...
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...
When Illness Strikes: A Restorative Practice
Yesterday, I spent most of the day in hospital, feeling simultaneously very ill, and immensely grateful for modern medicine and for the Devas and their human counterparts who grace these seemingly sterile places with such kindness, humour and compassionate power....