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Learning to Be Brave. Conversations that Heal.
Like you, I imagine, I’ve been having conversations. Asking questions. Trying to understand. I’ve been saying that we need safe spaces where these conversations can be held, so the truth can emerge through our deeply socialized defenses. “Safe spaces for deep conversations are hard to come by.” So the other day, I was speaking with an amazingly smart and creative friend who told me that she doesn’t believe in safe spaces. Rather she said she believes in brave spaces. This got me to thinking… … about the difference between a safe space...
read moreBlack Men Speak: A Conversation for Humanity
When George Floyd was killed, people began hitting the streets in protest. And I started to stir from a long slumber – the sleepy comfort of not knowing what I did not know. Perhaps like you, I started making phone calls, asking questions, having deep and sometimes difficult conversations with black friends around the world. Some of them challenged my good intentions: “The time for listening is over, Katherine. What are you going to do?” I started to study and learn. And I started to listen… to that deep knowing we...
read moreCreate a (r)evolution. Start with your own life.
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – MLK There is a great deal of adrenalized action in the world today. It was inevitable. We will never have peace in our societies until all our voices can be heard, no matter how uncomfortable those voices make us. There is going to be anger. There is going to be error. There is going to be misunderstanding… because we have not been listening. There is growing evidence that the only way we will heal from an intolerable shared history is to sit down at the table and tell our stories and have them...
read more“Go to your room.” What Mother Nature Needs You to Think About Now.
“That’s enough, children! Go to your rooms. And before you come out, I want you to think about what you’ve done to get here. Reflect on the consequences of your actions, and think about what you need to change to get along with each other. Is this really how you want to be?” This Sunday is Mother’s Day in the USA. And recently as I’ve reflected on our current circumstances, it’s all started to feel like it did when I was a child and things got a bit wild and I just wasn’t listening to my Mother. I’ve been having the sense...
read moreGrieving Normal: 5 Strategies for Life in the Time of Coronavirus
EDITOR’S NOTE: The same day I published this post, the Harvard Business Review also posted an article on grief. Gather strategies wherever you can, but come back here for your final read. 😇 Remember New Year’s Eve? We celebrated the start of a new year and a new decade with energy, optimism, vision and plans. There was so much we were going to do this year. I had launched a virtual mastermind program in October, and by January 1st, the 12 women in it were celebrating a head start on the year, happy with what they’d already...
read moreThe Life In Your Years: Making Meaning in Every Decade
I’m just about to get on a plane after a week in Houston, Texas for my cousin’s 80th birthday. It’s the place where I was born, so I’m thinking a lot about my life to date. I’ve lived six decades so far, and I am moving deeper into my seventh. I hope I have many more, but nothing is certain.Each decade of life brings a developmental task we need to complete in order to move forward in our lives in strength. If any of these tasks are not achieved, we move forward in life socially, psychologically or emotionally crippled, with parts of...
read moreFive Life Lessons on Money and Meaning (Revisited)
This post was first published on March 15th, 2018. But as Money & Abundance have been our theme this past month in my mastermind group, I thought I'd bring it out to share with you here. Somehow it's always a relevant topic, isn't it!Yesterday I had coffee with an old friend here in Nice. We first met in 2010 at my first-ever public presentation about the Wheel of Creativity®. She is a master of Marketing knowledge, and we share common values for human beings and the planet. So we often talk about the intersection of money and meaningful...
read moreOne Minute Message Digest June 2019
Podcast Digest - June 2019Was June a little more eventful than you’re accustomed to? For many the start of Summer brought drastic changes, frustrating setbacks, huge challenges and yet within all of it, new opportunities. I truly hope that the One Minute Message podcast series provided something to keep you optimistic through it all. Life came fast at me this month but I never lost sight of this important media platform that allows thought leaders, entrepreneurs, influencers, change makers and “ordinary people" a chance to inspire...
read moreHow to Train your Mindset: Five-a-Day to Domesticate your Inner Dragon
The human mind is like a dragon, with a twoheaded superhuman power: one head wreaks chaos in the world and one makes magic in it. One of Life’s most important challenges is to learn to manage that power. How you do this gives you your unique creative signature for success… or your formula for a lifetime of frustrating failure. How you do this creates the meaning of your life.Mind over MatterOne of the greatest predictors of your success is your Mindset. Your mindset is the set of assumptions, beliefs, methods or interpretations you hold…...
read moreOne Minute Message Digest – May 2019
Podcast Digest - May 2019May is over and we are approaching the halfway mark of 2019. As we come to a major turning point of the year, our One Minute Message podcast series continues to inspire those who encounter our new episodes every Tuesday. This series started from my desire to give passionate people – thought leaders, entrepreneurs, influencers, change makers and “ordinary people" – a platform where they can be heard. Ahead of us is the pinnacle of Summer and then the major change once again as days get shorter. How willing are...
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