After listening to a client divulge concerns that he'd been carrying around for a while, I asked. "What if you said that to your boss?"...

"I'll talk to your father." The mother amiably says to her distressed child. This is a scene we have all encountered, be it personally or...

Students at my daughter's school have the same teacher for two years. When she returned this fall the thing that created the most stress...

I had a client, Trixy, who was opening a cheese shop. As part of her customer discovery process, Trixy stood outside of World Market and...

"This changes everything," my client relayed to me as he finished describing what he had just learned at a conference. "That's awesome....

"Triggers are everywhere," my client, we'll call her Dee, observed as we were checking in on her progress since our last session. Dee...

“Of course, we want people to mute unless speaking.” I said presumptuously while preparing for a virtual retreat I facilitated earlier...

My creative process looks remarkably different when I'm making greeting cards than when I co-create. When I make greeting cards I work by...

When Lewis came to me for coaching, he was tired of being stuck in an unhealthy pattern. There were too many fires to put out at work and...

Working with clients across different industries affords me a lot of exciting opportunities to learn. It also means I commonly encounter...

"Now let's pretend you made me a bathing suit with purple flowers." My daughter instructs me as I play with her. At different points, I...

Early on in my career, I struggled to find places that adequately supported my professional development. As a self-described misfit, I...

Happy June everyone! In more normal times, June is a great month to revisit our plans. It's the halfway point in the year, so there's an...

During droughts, the water recedes dramatically in Horsetooth Reservoir. As the shoreline shifts, dense mud is exposed. It's the kind of...

If you’re well networked, It’s easy to find people that will contribute ideas to develop a strategy. There's nothing us big picture...

A few years back, a client was experiencing a lot of conflict within their department. Individual frustrations became exacerbated every...

Many of my clients only used their journals for taking notes during talks, while reading books, or participating in workshops before we...

I was recently working with a coaching client who was reconnecting with lost parts of herself. Pieces she had stuffed down and alienated...

As a child, I loved watching inside the piano while my mother played. It was like witnessing magic. Each time she pressed down a key, a...

One of the characteristics of the Misfit Entrepreneur is purposeful defiance. Defiance is defined as open resistance or bold...