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'Letters to My Daughter' is available on Amazon!

Letters to My Daughter: A collection of mentoring topics, tidbits, and tips for women of all ages  is NOW ON AMAZON!
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Press for Progress

What are you doing to Press for Progress on International Women's Day 2018? Are you proclaiming? Protesting? Performing? ...or prognosticating? Are you wearing purple (the official color) or praying for an end to violence against…
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02: Celebrating International Women's Day

In a show about women mentoring women, it is important to pay tribute to the women who came before us and paved the way to equality. The fight for equal representation in our workplaces and in our society still continues, but I am inspired…
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March 1st 2018

March 1st will forever be an extraordinary day. On this day in 2014, at approximately 8:00 PM Central time, EMTs raced my hemorrhaging body into an emergency room in Wichita, Kansas. I was given less than a 5% chance of living. As one surgeon…
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01: Introducing Letters to My Daughter Podcast

As the great Ruth Bader Ginsberg once said, “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your own person, be independent.” It’s tough to learn how to be independent and self-assured without some guidance. The role…
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A Crash Course in Leadership

  It’s Not Enough to Just Show Up Woody Allen once said that “Seventy percent of success is showing up.” Too often, however, we have leaders in place that simply show up and conduct business as usual. They give out instructions,…
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A Mother's Foresight

  Emotional intelligence is blah, blah, blah. Wait, what? As humans, we are encouraged to be emotionally intelligent; just two weeks ago I brought up the importance of being empathetic and how it can positively enhance a workplace. But…
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The most raw, honest and profound interview.

Friends, this is the most raw, honest and profound interview I've ever given. Please listen and allow it to change how you connect with people everywhere. Click here for a special 45-minute podcast that released this week. Pain…
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How To Eliminate International Women’s Day

I’m really struggling with International Women’s Day. Anyone who knows me even a little would think I’m a big fan but truth be told I have mixed feelings. Very rarely in my life have I actually allowed any experience of limitations…