Here’s Why It Matters: Design a Life of Clarity, Focus, and Purpose

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had someone believe in you? I mean believe in you to the point where you are inspired to step into your power and achieve things you didn’t know were even possible. How might you create that magic yourself? Take another listen to Episode 1 where we discussed building your personal roadmap – lots of strategies are used to manifest what you truly desire in your life. E...

Send us Fan Mail Strategy isn’t just for your professional life. How do you stay aligned with where YOU want to go next? In what ways do you honor yourself? How do you know when it’s time to switch-up the strategy? Join us for Part 2 of our conversation – with Karen Holop and Monique LaLonde. Here is a bit more about each of them: Karen Holop Karen is a product leader with 15+ years of experience...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a conversation about the importance of strategy. What it is, why it’s important – and how to protect time for it. For this conversation, I’m joined by two amazing humans: Karen Holop and Monique LaLonde. Here is a bit more about each of them: Karen Holop Karen is a product leader with 15+ years of experience in building customer-centric enterprise solutions at companie...

Send us Fan Mail The year seems to fly by, and because it goes so fast, it’s critical to capture how you’re tracking to goals all year long. Join us to discover strategies for measuring where you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to be in the future. Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals...

Send us Fan Mail It’s that time of year! We are rapidly approaching the end of the year, and you know what that means. End of year performance prep time. Join us for a conversation around the importance of identifying a strategy for highlighting your impact for the year – and why it’s important to amplify your contributions. Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal grow...

Send us Fan Mail When you put yourself out there with vulnerability - you open yourself up to more than just risk. You connect with others and act with bravery to ask for exactly what you need. It’s important to have grace for yourself when integrating into a new culture. How do you lean into how you connect with others and use curiosity as you build your social ecosystem? Here’s Why It Matters is...

Send us Fan Mail What comes up for you when you think about working in different cultures? When you’re immersing yourself in a new job, or even a new location - how do you honor who you are and amplify that in this new space you find yourself in? Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals. Subscribe t...

Send us Fan Mail It’s not all rainbows and unicorns. Being a manager can be challenging – especially when faced with performance issues you need to address or when managing up to find a balance with the work and the people in front of you. Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals. Subscribe to Here&...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve had many, many people over the course of my career approach me about the possibility of becoming a manager. It’s always a complicated topic, because there really isn’t a clear answer. It’s a very personal decision, and it might not be something you’d want to take on. Join us for a candid conversation about becoming a manager – deciding not to be a manager – and what matters w...

Send us Fan Mail How do you know when you're being successful in influence and relationship building? What are your measures? How do you gather feedback and create conversation partners? Here’s why it matters to step into your power and stop making yourself small. Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with...

Send us Fan Mail How do people influence? How do you take a step forward or back from influence? Join us to learn how you might take a look at the strengths you amplify - and why it matters. Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals. Subscribe to Here's Why It Matters: Apple | Spotify Find out m...

Send us Fan Mail When you think about impact - in terms of impact you can have on you - how might we move through those moments in a way that puts yourself first? How can you find your community and identify what you need in those moments? We’ve all lived through some extraordinary change in the last 4 years. Change is inevitable, no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in. In part 2, let’s...

Send us Fan Mail When you think about impact - in terms of impact you can have on you - how might we move through those moments in a way that puts yourself first? How can you find your community and identify what you need in those moments? We’ve all lived through some extraordinary change in the last 4 years. Change is inevitable, no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in. Let’s take a look...

Send us Fan Mail For the second half of our conversation with Isis, she explores how we make moves toward a more solid future that aligns with our goals. How does she empower women to make bold moves? What advice does she have for making a change when any change is scary? Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions wi...

Send us Fan Mail It wasn’t until the year 1974 when women were able to apply for a business loan without having a male co-sign with her. 1974! What are some of the statistical facts we need to be aware of as we look to the future and our finances? Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals. Subscribe...

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of our conversation with Stacy and Tom, we take a look at where our industry needs us to step in. Particularly with AI. Why is it important that we step in? What is our responsibility as an industry? Humans must be apart of AI and how it evolves. We also look at how they support people to step into their power and create space to be exactly who they are. What brings some...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a conversation about how to put yourself in the driver's seat of your career – and your life. In part one of this conversation, I had the privilege of speaking with Stacy All and Tom Hobbs - both have executive careers spanning decades supporting design organizations at companies such as Yahoo and Meta. It's a strange time in our industry right now, and it ca...

Send us Fan Mail This is a bonus episode on trying new things. Why it’s hard – why we feel uncomfortable – and what it gets us. See you next week for our regularly scheduled programming! Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals. Subscribe to Here's Why It Matters: Apple | Spotify Find out more...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone would agree that critical conversations are a necessary part of our day-to-day - especially for leaders. Oftentimes, though, it can feel daunting to give critical feedback to a peer, or even to your teams you support directly. Some would argue the critical conversations we have with our senior leadership can be a bigger challenge. Join us for a discussion about how to app...

Send us Fan Mail You might spend a great deal of time at work planning - looking at what products make it on the roadmap, when will you be launching new research projects or kicking off a new initiative. But today we are going to look at how you might build your personal roadmap. And Here’s Why it Matters: You are the most important person in your life. Join Jorja White, Winsome O’Neill and myself...

Send us Fan Mail We continue the second half of our conversation about personal roadmapping with Jorja White, Winsome O’Neill and myself. How do you get started and make your personal roadmap a priority? We will discuss strategies and resources for making the commitment to yourself and how to realize the goals you set for yourself. We break down why it matters to dream, write down exactly what you...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone would agree that critical conversations are a necessary part of our day-to-day - especially for leaders. Oftentimes, though, it can feel daunting to give critical feedback to a peer, or even to your teams you support directly. Some would argue the critical conversations we have with our senior leadership can be a bigger challenge. Join us for a discussion about how to app...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever found yourself moving through your days, months - even years - and realizing that you aren’t moving the needle on the things you care about? Ever wonder why? Join us every Wednesday to explore what matters. My name is Teresa Washburn, and after many years as a Senior Design Leader in Tech, I pivoted my career to what I love - coaching. I am on a mission to partner wi...