Today marks 100 days left in 2026.

That’s enough time to keep going on the path you’ve paved. It’s also enough time to make some changes. You can finish the year strong, or you can reinvent for the year ahead.

This year hasn’t gone the way I planned. That’s not a bad thing. It’s not a good thing. ...

Theo got stung by a bee last week. Right near his eye.

He’s five months old — my first puppy — so I did what any first-time puppy parent does: I called the vet. They didn’t hesitate. “Bring him in immediately.”

His eye was swollen. But he was acting completely like Theo. Tail wagging, sniffing aro...

Last week I had two doctor's appointments, back-to-back.

Each visit ran about 45 minutes. Both moved me through efficiently. I walked out of both feeling fine.

And I had two completely different experiences.

The first appointment

I checked in. I barely sat in the waiting room. Everyone who touch...

The first three years of this business, I said yes to everything.
 

Executive leadership retreats. Building out sales leadership teams. Business consulting for owners across half a dozen industries. I loved a lot of it — until I didn't. Somewhere in year three, I looked up and realized I'd become th...

Somewhere along the way, someone handed you a definition of winning.

You probably didn't notice it happening. A parent. A first boss. A leaderboard on the wall. A number someone else set that you agreed to carry.

And you've been running on it ever since.

Here's what I want to hand you today: you ...

I did something last week I’m pretty sure I’ve never done in my life.

I stayed for the whole thing.

Five days at a mastermind retreat with other business owners. No slipping out early. No catching the last flight home. No “I’ll just come for the two main days.”

And it was the most energizing, did...

You said it. You know you said it. You could point to the exact conversation.

And the thing you asked for still came back not quite right.

So you fixed it yourself. Again. On a Saturday.

Here's what I've watched happen over and over this past month, with solo founders, with founders running a small but...

It was 7:00 AM. The client’s leadership team offsite started at 8:30. My slides for the day weren’t finished, and I was sitting there nearly in tears.

How did I get here?

It wasn’t for lack of caring. I had spent an incredible amount of time preparing — thinking about this team, what they were up agai...

"Sarah" was booked solid and struggling to make payroll.

She runs a business consulting firm — about $2 million a year, six people. Every piece of business came through a referral or an introduction, and she was proud of that. She'd never had to "sell" a day in her life.

She was also exhausted, and th...

A few weeks ago I told you there were five distinct sales identities most founders operate from — and then I left you hanging. “More on that another week,” I said.

This is the week.

But fair warning before we start: four of these five are the same problem wearing four different disguises. See if y...

Early in my career, I thought my job was to be the whole solution. Beat the other reps, win the deal, be the hero.

It made selling exhausting. And it kept me stuck in a game I didn't even want to play.

Here's what changed everything: I realized I didn't have to be the whole solution. I just had to...

I didn't know I loved planting flowers until we moved into a house that came with flower boxes.

That first year of planting season, I agonized over what to plant where, convinced there was a "right way" to do it, and that all the spaces needed to be filled at the beginning (not realizing the growth...