leadership
Real leadership isn't about having all the answers or projecting invincibility. It's about showing up authentically, making hard decisions with grace, and creating space for your team to thrive. The best leaders prioritize self-awareness alongside strategy. They understand leadership starts from the inside out. Your inner game, how you manage fear, handle stress, navigate conflict, directly shapes your leadership impact. Great leadership means learning to lead yourself before leading others.
The mythical CEO
There is no perfect in leadership. Why then is it so damn hard to accept our own imperfections?
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders: Why You Must Own Your Sense of Worth
To avoid burnout and scale as leaders, we must take back the judgment of our own worth
Meeting Check-In Questions: The Simple Practice That Transforms Team Meetings
How to run better meetings using check-ins that build psychological safety, active listening, and real focus.
How to Build a Great Startup Board of Directors (Hint: Your Board Is Not Your Boss)
A founder's guide to board member roles and responsibilities, how to choose board members, and how to turn your startup board into a high-trust team.
A powerful morning practice for imperfect leaders
In 2014, I was facing the loss of a child, a messy divorce, and single-parenthood while leading a fast-growing company. This is the morning routine that helped get me through. It has served me to this day.
Why CEOs should work 40-hour weeks
If the data is correct, you are not doing yourself any favors by grinding it out after 5 o'clock.
Distraction is Killing Your Business (and stealing your joy)
Startup folk are renowned for geeking out on productivity hacks and innovating on the future of work. But most miss the easiest gain of all.
Founders and Leaders: feeling alone? You aren’t.
It it common in a time like this for leaders to feel uniquely alone in their situations. Fear, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome can come up big in times of crises. You aren’t alone.
The Weightiness Every Leader Knows
You aren't alone. One of the defining experiences of being a startup founder was the heaviness I carried at every waking hour. And I see and hear it in every other founder I speak with.
Get More Done and Enjoy Happier Weekends
Your day driven by fires and your weekends overrun by rumination on work? Here’s a weekly ritual that might help.
