It took me five years and five jobs to find work I really enjoy.

My path wasn't linear. I moved from pharmaceutical trials to market research to hospital research to human resources to where I am today….

Most of us care what people think. We do. It’s inherent in us. Back in the day, we needed our tribe to like us in order to survive. We needed people to approve of us so we didn’t get voted off the island. We needed to play it safe so that people wouldn’t think we were crazy or weird or out there….

Halloween might be my favorite holiday. Because you get to be whoever you want to be.

Want to be silly, cute, scary, sexy? It's all welcome on Halloween.

But you know what I just realized? You get to be whoever you want to be ALWAYS. We choose. Maybe we don't always realize that.

The money. The recognition. The experiences. The job. The house. The partner.

We want to have it all, and though we might feel like Veruca from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it's hard not to want it all now…..

“First when there's nothing but a slow glowing dream that your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind.” Our minds hide our dreams beneath our fears. Fear can be paralyzing….

We all have habits. Some we find helpful and others we'd rather not have. Maybe we would rather read more or workout more or have a cleaner house. Maybe we want to wake up earlier or go to bed earlier or spend more time meditating. But instead we find ourselves watching TV or scrolling on our phone.

We make 35,000 decisions, on average, every day. And I don’t know about you, but I used to find all of those decisions exhausting. Sometimes they can still bog me down. Especially all the little ones….

I’ve come to believe that confidence isn’t an attribute you’re born with. It’s a skill you practice.
So in order to feel more confident, you just need to practice being confident. Jen Sincero says that
Success = dreams + fear + doing it anyway…

Do me a quick favor. Pull up your favorite love song. Or any love song.
It doesn’t matter to me if it’s Frank Sinatra’s “The way you look tonight” or Michael Buble’s “Everything” or “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie…

Have you ever really wanted to do something, but feel like something inside you is holding you back? Maybe it’s traveling abroad or taking a cooking class. Making art. Going after a dream…

As young professionals, sometimes I feel we’re stumbling in the world around us. How do we get what we want, make an impact and get excited about our day to day? Does it feel more like working for the weekend and being stuck in the endless grind instead?…