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Is Authenticity an Excuse?
Challenging the Assumptions We Make About “Being Ourselves” The other day, during a listening training I was leading, a participant...

Ariana Friedlander
4 days ago4 min read


How to recognize when fear takes over - leadership lessons from parenting
Recently, I found myself observing a familiar scene—parents and children navigating big emotions in the wild. And in witnessing this...

Ariana Friedlander
May 162 min read


Here's a simple trick to know it's time to speak up
It was the second night in a row I woke up at 2am unable to fall back asleep. I was ruminating about a situation. Playing a movie in my...

Ariana Friedlander
Nov 20, 20242 min read


Bring on the pity party
There's a strange phenomenon I've noticed over the years. My initial reaction to feeling bad makes me feel even worse! It goes like...

Ariana Friedlander
Nov 13, 20244 min read


Learning to do tired well
As a baby, whenever I was tired my Mom put me down for a nap and I slept blissfully. At some point, I stopped napping when I was tired....

Ariana Friedlander
Nov 6, 20243 min read


Breaking the silence
I went to a Quaker middle school. Every Wednesday we had meeting. In the Quaker tradition, meeting is a worship practice in community...

Ariana Friedlander
Oct 2, 20242 min read


Bewitched by the familiar
I had a client, we'll call him Brad, that grew up in an entrepreneurial family. This made self-employment familiar to him. So when he...

Ariana Friedlander
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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