Authentic Life Radio

It is never too late for Bravery says Margaret Wheatley.  To stand, To speak up, To not let the overwhelm take hold. I've been laying low, cancelling events, filling my days with lots of introspection AND lots of diversions and distractions.  There's something being called forward within me, within the collective, and I've been pretending not to hear it.  It's about depression.  It's about feeling...

Space.  A block of time?  A bit of quiet?  An open shelf or drawer, an empty plate.  How do you fill it? It's been said, "Nature abhors a vacuum"...and many of us do too.  Notice how uncomfortable it is when the conversation dies down or the movie score goes silent? Even the space between my upper and lower teeth is, too often, closed up, clenched, not allowed to be open, slack.  And, now I have a...

It's been coming.  And I've been fighting it. First the stoic, "I can handle it."  Then, affirmations of "I can do this!"  "You are stronger than the obstacles!"  "Keep moving!" Until finally, letting go.  Letting God.  Letting it all out.  The Grief.  Anguish.  Acceptance of Failure.  Acknowledgement of Where. I. Am.  Lost enough to see that I've been ignoring the signs.  I KNOW these signs.  My...

Thank you. Thank you for being here.  For reading this. For listening in.  Showing up. For your friendship, kindness, connection, referral, support, sharing.  For Being You. And I truly mean it.  Between Thank You and I'm Sorry - How can we express ourselves more clearly?  More authentically, more real, more true. We are in a world where we wear our busyness, our social media connections, our use...

Yikes!  My stomach is in knots.  I'm wanting to take a nap.  Or, find myself distracted from the task at hand. (it's at these times that I tend to clean or do laundry, or sort the junk drawer...) In a matter of a few hours, I get to have an important phone call that could result in speaking at a conference AND a video shoot of a speech in front of a live audience, to promote a women's conference....

I'm sad.  I'm not ready to be a brilliant example of empowerment today.  I need to grieve.  Heal. Then Heal. Learn.  Grow.  Then Act.  Be The Change. First comes a place of Being Still.  Asking and listening.  Allowing and listening.  Letting what comes up, show up.  Listening more.  Asking more.  No matter who you voted for, to see the popular vote be at 47.5, and 47.7 with 98.8 reported, it mean...

Isn't it time to lead holistically?  Just like medicine, we are beginning to see how just addressing the symptoms doesn't work.  There are underlying reasons why we get sick, and teams are dysfunctional or organizations get off-track.  Leading Self, a team or a business is best done when all parts are integrated.  All voices heard.  All ideas considered.  And when all are heading in the same direc...

We women can be our own worst enemies.  What is it about women competing with each other?  (even when we know better?) Do you ever feel diminished by another's success?  Or feel a contraction when you see someone else doing the same thing (or a bit similar even or especially superior) to your business or program offering? For so long, we have been pitted against each other, for beauty, yes, but ev...

Drop my Shield? It's taken all my life to build it and perfect it and refine it to fit me perfectly. Protection, as an unconscious behavior, is unfortunately, a necessary one at times.  We women don't feel safe.  Most of the time.  When we do, our truest, most Authentic Self comes out to play. You know, those weekend mornings after a great night of sleep (and maybe more!) creates the space for us...

I've been hiding.  Even with being online, recording a podcast, and doing live interviews with exceptional women leaders. And, it used to serve me but not so much anymore. You see, Hiding is not only being a wallflower (or a lurker) or making safe statements so your voice gets lost in the "noise," it's not takingany risks. It's not showing up.  Not being Real, Not telling the truth...my truth. Why...

Where are you hiding?  Protecting?  People-pleasing, telling half-truths to yourself and others.  OR...Overly complying??? We have been trained and molded into being such "Good Girls." And, isn't it interesting that the girls who are making waves in our community, nation and world, are anything but Good? They are not afraid to speak up.  Speak out.  Wear different clothes, or different hairstyles....

Mindfullness is a practice yes, but can we make it a lifestyle?  Here's a Radical thought... Slowing down to actually feel what's going on?  We tend to gloss over things, skim over reading, scan emails, barely noticing the glow of other beings, the radiance in nature, the taste of our food, the feel of the material on our bodies...even the solidness of the ground beneath us. And we wonder why we a...

We love Beauty.  We are inundated by media's definition of Beauty.  We turn to what's familiar and cultur's idea of Beauty ...versus seeking out the bizarre, different, odd, or strange. We are trained early to see beauty, especially in women, as being small, young, sweet, sexy and similar.  Similar?  Yes, to what we know, what we are comfortable with.  What we've grown up seeing or being told is b...

To Savor...slowing down to enjoy, appreciate, feel pleasure, receive a deep breath. How do you savor?  The definitions that resonated with me were: 1. To taste or smell, especially with pleasure: savored each morsel of the feast. 2. To appreciate fully; enjoy or relish: Savoring feels appropriate for this lovely month as the weather is perfect, the food is plentiful, the days are a bit shorter and...

Being Authentic doesn't have to look and feel messy, raw and scary, does it?  For me, it took years (decades) of learning Who I Really Am through falling into emotional depths and feeling my way to my Truth. How about being Authentic and True AND being at our most Radiant, Brilliant and Creative? Our AMAZING Self? A challenge I was handed recently while attending Authentic Speakers Academy (sound...

It's the buzz now...all the rage.  Authentic This, Authentic That.  I get it.  And, maybe because we're tired of the IN-Authenticity of our culture.  Our politics.  Our own life, perhaps? When looking at how to announce the new program/offering #AuthenticLeadershipAcademy, I had problems finding the new URL I wanted.  There's even a new coaching program for Authentic Leadership being offered somew...

Who are you?  What do you want to create in the world?  How much do you want it? Does it truly light your heart and soul on FIRE?  This path of Authenticity has taken me deep within - where each time I'm in a business coaching session or a healing session or an energy session, when I am asked "What is your Heart's Desire?"  I panic. My first several answers are what my mind wants.  What my body/ph...

Leadership. Yes, this applies to you, no matter what your “title.” Whether you like it or not, you are a leader...of your business, your team, your project, your art, your family, in your community, and of your body's choices. For a long time, we led with our brains and skills, right? Authenticity, the new buzz word, is turning that upside-down. So, why is Authenticity important? I thought for dec...

Being in a new place is a great time to look at how we react to change and chaos and store up our inner resources. I'm currently in Washington DC area for a Leadership Circle Profile Training and certification. Wow! March, for many of us, is a month marked with the beginnings of Spring flowers showing themselves, Spring breaks for students, "Springing forward" into Daylight Savings Time and the Sp...