How to Stop the Feast-or-Famine Cycle in Real Estate
Real estate is full of highs and lows, but nothing messes with your head (or your bank account) quite like the feast-or-famine cycle. One month, you’re flush with cash, feeling unstoppable. A few months later, you’re staring at an empty pipeline, refreshing your email like a lunatic, waiting for a new deal to magically appear. […]
The Hidden Cost of Shortcuts
Let me set the scene: Your workday is a blur of meetings, emails, and half-finished tasks. You get home, crash on the couch, and realize you can’t remember the last time you had a real conversation with your spouse or played with your kids. And somewhere in the back of your mind, there’s this nagging […]
The Loyalty Loop: A Framework for Keeping the Talent You Work So Hard to Find
Finding great talent is hard. Keeping it? Even harder. Turnover isn’t just expensive—it’s exhausting. It disrupts team morale, drains productivity, and keeps you stuck on the hiring hamster wheel: constantly searching for someone new to fill the gaps, only to have to do it all over again. The truth? If you don’t have a plan […]
On Being Judgmental: A Professional Confession
I like to tell my closest friends that I’m a deeply judgmental person. It’s a joke, of course. (Mostly.) But here’s the kicker: I’ve also been told my superpower is making space for people—holding room for them to be exactly where they are without shame or pretense. So, which is it? Am I a judge, […]
Technical Debt: A Lesson in Short-Term Wins vs. Long-Term Costs
In our household, my software developer husband and I often laugh about how differently we view the world. He’s a systems thinker—methodical, deliberate, always focused on scalability. I’m more of a high-energy, results-driven strategist, much like the high-D sales team owners I coach. But every so often, his world and mine overlap, and I hear […]
Coping vs. Recovery: The Runner’s Dilemma
Here’s the truth: you can’t out-limp a flawed plan. Coping strategies may keep you afloat this year, but they won’t get you closer to the growth you’re dreaming of. Worse, they might leave you burned out, overworked, and wondering why your business feels stuck in the same place year after year.
Recovery, on the other hand, requires courage. It means pausing to evaluate what’s working and what’s not. It’s letting go of the fear that stopping means falling behind. It’s trusting that taking time to fix the root problems now will allow you to run farther, faster, and with more ease in the long term.
Ghosts in the Machine: Are Your Old Beliefs Holding You Back?
What Are Your Ghosts in the Machine? Last year, I read Jerry Colonna’s Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, and it left an indelible mark on me. It wasn’t a book I could devour in a weekend or breeze through while sipping coffee. I had to take my time with it. Every chapter […]
Seagull Management: Quit Pecking Your People To Death
Ever had a manager swoop in, make a lot of noise, drop a pile of criticism, and then disappear until the next time something goes wrong? That’s seagull management. It’s demoralizing, chaotic, and unfortunately, all too common in workplaces. I see this play out with my clients all the time. They’ll come to me frustrated, […]
Curate Your Life: Growing the Life You Truly Want
Last year on the way home from a convention, I was stopped in a TSA line by a former team leader. As we caught up, she said something that stopped me in my tracks: “You’ve really curated your life.” That word—curated—stuck with me. It perfectly describes what I’ve been working toward for years: shaping my […]
The Gift of Stillness: Why Rest is the Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Well, here we are again. Another holiday week, and here I am, asking you to slow down, be present, and catch your breath. (I know, I know—next, I’ll be telling you to drink water and stretch. How original.) But seriously, The Holidays aren’t just another square on the calendar. There are days when the whole […]
