Cracks, quiet rooms, and pool water: Why things that disrupt us are actually helping us grow. Sitting inside my son’s house on a dreary, rainy afternoon, the quiet felt heavier than usual. Almost deafening. There were no sounds coming from the other rooms, no furniture, no grandpups, Archie and Captain, racing across the floor. Their…
I haven’t written here in a while. If I’m being honest, it’s because the soil has been heavy lately. For the last several months, my life has been a blur of dualities: the steady rhythm of my full-time career by day, and the soul-stirring work of building The Bloom by Maintaining Melinda and launching Jasmine…
Hey y’all, Today I want to talk about why we all need to eat the frog first. You’ve probably heard the phrase “eat the frog first.”Do the thing you don’t want to do. The thing you keep putting off. The thing that quietly sits in the back of your mind, taking up more space than…
Stepping Into a Different Kind of Work For most of my career, I’ve been a people leader in customer‑facing roles — the kind of work where the pace is fast, the problems are clear, and the finish line is usually visible. There was often a clear rhythm to the work — something to resolve, a…
