Don’t adapt to the energy in the room! Influence the energy in the room. John C. Maxwell states that “leadership is influence; nothing more, nothing less.” As a leader, I feel so accomplished to have successfully led my team out of unchartered waters during the pandemic. Equally happy to report that our business is now [...]
Tag: Fail Forward
Rising Above Personal Adversity
You cannot prove the quality of anything until it has been tested. The true quality of your life is not determined when things are going great but in the face of adversity. I think we can all agree that life can sometimes come at us hard. Sometimes we see it coming while other times we [...]
Lemons or Lemonade? Building Personal Resilience
"The challenges of life will come your way eventually; it's inevitable! Trust me I know! The real challenge however is how quickly and how strongly you manage to bounce back."ABE For the last two years, all everyone has spoken about is the need to pivot quickly, managing through the crisis and the art of building [...]
What Growth Truly Looks Like – The ABCs of Growth
Don't wait for it. Create it! Anyone that knows me or spends time in my presence gets to learn very quickly that I am big on "growth" - my own growth and surely the growth of others! I don't think I ever really noticed it before but I have been in growthmode my entire life. [...]
Embracing Your Storms
"Faith and Focus over Fear...." Recently, one of my close girlfriends reminded me that every storm does not come to break you. Some actually come to strengthen you and to renew your faith, focus and fortune. The thing is, in the face of adversity our minds begin to plays tricks on us to a point [...]
How Fear Impacts Progress
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”2 Timothy 1:7 The first quarter of the year has started off with a bang! A real mixed bag of emotions. The excitement of giving birth to a new women empowerment, professional development and networking [...]
Fail Forward Towards Success
The courage to always get back up after we have been knocked down is a special gift.... From time to time, we all experience some degree of self doubt, myself included. This can manifest itself even further when we look on and see the success achieved by others, which sometimes creates a feeling that we [...]
Life Lessons 