Women aren’t taught to pat ourselves on the back or celebrate our wins, and that goes hand-in-hand with feeling confident at our jobs. It’s time to retire this mode of thinking! These are my 8 tips for developing a confidence-building practice in your own life.

With a new season comes a new list of my recommended reading! In this installment of titles that traverse my personal and professional interests, you’ll find everything from leadership and facilitation resources, to a rhyming little pig who jumps into a muddy little puddle.

If you’re feeling like it’s time to shift your career, it might be helpful to do an audit to shed light on what fills you up, the parts that you could take or leave, and the parts that feel downright dreadful. To guide the journey, consider these questions to take stock of how you spend your time and how it makes you feel.

I’ve made it my mission to bring more ease into more areas of my life this year. I’ve found that it’s difficult to meet challenges with ease at first, but once you get into the rhythm the attitude is contagious and pays dividends, both personally and professionally. Here’s what I’ve been practicing every day.

Does growth create opportunity? Absolutely. But is it the best and only way to run a business? Absolutely not. Here’s why I intentionally choose solopreneurship year after year.

I’m a big fan of balancing work and play, professional and personal. These “opposing” dimensions have quite a bit of overlap in the Venn diagram of life. The things we do to become more skilled in our careers usually blend into the ways we navigate life outside of work. And the curiosities we explore show up in unexpected ways within our professional interactions. These books cover that and more.

This reading list is for folks who want to forge deeper connections with the people in their lives, manage personal and professional time differently, and learn about tools that can expand our emotional vocabularies and redefine what it means to rest and relax. I’d be surprised if you don’t experience the positive impacts of these books and their tools across every sphere of your life, from personal to professional, and beyond.

When each of us thrive, we all thrive, and from this spirit my Sprint For Good program was born. The program is a way to bring deserving organizations and missions a chance to meaningfully move their business, product and/or service forward. That includes the opportunity to participate in full-blown Design Sprints, Strategic Planning Sessions, and more.

What do purpose, adult friendships, languishing and Barack Obama have in common? My latest reading list, as a matter of fact. This installment explores themes across community and relationship building, as well as examining present-day problem solving.

Time for reflection, recharging, and independent play are top of my priority list this summer, along with some offline projects that require hands-on labor. In order to create space for these, I’ve had to practice setting boundaries and saying “no” to some things, which is challenging, but the overall result is that I have more control over my capacity and can focus on the non-work activities that are a priority for me this summer. Here’s a list of the practices that help me navigate this balance.

I can’t help but draw on my experience as a facilitator to examine how the methods I use when leading Design Sprints and workshops might be helpful in navigating life with a child, and creating more communication pathways for us. I’ve found a handful of things work really well for our family and give our daughter more agency to participate in creating plans, communicate with us, and keep us present with one another.

There’s something adults can learn from kids to allow us to explore and create more freely. These three behaviors are worth taking note of, and might pay dividends personally and professionally.