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Field notes on mental health, mindset, leadership, ADHD, and emotional intelligence - (hopefully) sharp, compassionate, and a little feral. Expect practical tools, dry humor, and zero fluff to help you live, work, and love better.

 

The ADHD Edge adhd leadership neurodiversity

 Most conversations about ADHD in the workplace still operate on the same tired spectrum: either it’s framed as a liability to be managed or a legal checkbox to be ticked.  

For years, corporate stra...

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Reclaiming Yourself After a Life of Survival emotional intelligence leadership mindset resilience

Some of us didn’t have childhoods.  

Not really.  

We had small windows of stillness in between chaos, long stretches of silence filled with the weight of adult responsibilities, and the invisible a...

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Becoming Minerva: Reclaiming the Goddess Within leadership mindset power & power dynamics

Some discoveries feel like they were meant to happen, even if they come by accident.  

Mine began with a simple mistake - a recurring misspelling of my name as “Minerva.”  

Autocorrect has renamed m...

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A Field Guide to Living on the Ragged Edge: Stress, Burnout, and Brownout  emotional intelligence leadership mindset productivity resilience

Modern life has a way of feeling like a relentless game show, except you’re not sure what you’re playing for, the rules keep changing, and the host is just a little too smug.  

Between juggling work ...

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Communal Coping In Leadership emotional intelligence leadership mindset power & power dynamics

Building Resilience and Connection Through Shared Challenges 

Coping, in psychological terms, refers to the strategies individuals use to manage stress or adversity. Early research on coping - pionee...

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The Games People Play emotional intelligence leadership mindset power & power dynamics

Navigating Hidden Agendas in Everyday Conversations 

My teenager has a habit of warning her friends before they meet me. “She’s a coach and a trauma therapist,” she’ll say, “Don’t even try to pretend...

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Scale You While Scaling Your Business emotional intelligence leadership mindset resilience

Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart.  

It's exhilarating, sure, but also slightly terrifying when you realize it's not just your operations, revenue, or customer base that needs to grow ...

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Unapologetically Stepping Into Your Villain Era emotional intelligence leadership mindset power & power dynamics productivity resilience

Executives, leaders, and professionals are often expected to be the go-to person - someone who solves problems, keeps things running smoothly, and goes above and beyond for others.  

Somewhere along ...

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Navigating Double Binds: The Tricky Balancing Act of Modern Leadership emotional intelligence leadership power & power dynamics

Have you ever felt stuck in one of those impossible situations where you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t?

Welcome to the world of double binds - a catch-22 situation that feels like being...

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Lead Like You Mean It: Cultivating Power, Presence, and Confidence in Leadership emotional intelligence leadership power & power dynamics

First thing’s first: personal power is not about dominance or control.  

It’s not about wearing the sharpest suit in the room or knowing every answer.  

It’s about walking into any room and owning w...

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