At the National Air and Space Museum today, I only teared up about four times. Three of the four times happened when I was reading about women pioneers in flying technology: Bessie Coleman, Anne Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. There is something about the stories of these first women that I find incredibly moving. What IS […]

All day I’ve been arguing with myself: maybe you can skip writing today. Maybe it can be 100 Blog Posts in 100 Weekdays. It’s Saturday, after all. Don’t you deserve a break? Why do things you don’t want to do? It makes me realize how much I balk at consistency in myself… while resenting inconsistency […]

On the phone yesterday with Lisa Gates, my client and half of the incredible She Negotiates (and an all-around funny, sarcastic, real, candid, whip-smart, humble human), I shared my 100 Blog Posts in 100 Days challenge. She made the kind of noise you might make when you pick something up and it’s a thousand times […]

The most existential questions, which are deep and meaningful and important, sound deceptively simple: What do you really want? What are you here to do? Why are you doing this? When I ask myself these questions, I clam up. The answers seem too broad and cliche in a world full of pressure to stand out […]

I published my first Medium post two weeks ago. It’s received 2 views and zero engagements! I don’t know what I was expecting. Well, yes I do: I was hoping (and expecting) that Medium’s new curation option would show my article to the curators, who would be so blown away by my vulnerability, openness, honestly, […]

Years ago I read Paco Underhill’s Why We Buy, a fascinating and science-based foray into the physical surroundings that make us more likely to purchase products: wide aisles, good lighting, and more. (Paco is an environmental psychologist, an occupation I did not know existed, but which perfectly explains what he does.) What about why we […]