Success: Where Does the Journey Actually Begin?
Who doesn’t want to be successful?! Because there are as many definitions of success as there are people who want to achieve it, the end…
It Takes A Village
Too many of us don’t reach out to our villages – especially when we’re struggling with a challenge that we don’t know how to face.…
Maskuerade
With all the face coverings, do you ever wonder who’s behind the mask? Of course, there’s the coronavirus mask and those other masks we wear.…
A Remembrance: Mozella’s poem On Race at the Smithsonian National Museum
Sharing my poem On Race, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the Community Foundation’s ‘Putting Race on the Table’ forum in 2011…
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
Photo credit: Babajide Adeniyi-Jones Many of us have been called to the streets – whether those streets are in the cities in which we live,…
Searching For Truth
I paraphrased an old legend, which goes something like this: A deity wanted to encourage us to diligently search for the truth, and he pondered…
Lawyer Well-Being Week
Happy Lawyer Well-Being Week! Now, how are you really feeling? This well-being initiative is a commendable effort to solve long-standing issues and challenges that apply…
Introducing Wealth Literacy
April is financial literacy month and this year is a huge and unexpected reminder that exposes the money management education we don’t have. The United…
An Apology to Mother Earth
M agnificent are your powers that O rchestrate the ebb and flow of nature T eaching us that you too are a living being who…
Be A Master
Question. In spite of the waters raging around you, how committed are you to taking responsibility for the ripples emanating from your pond? The image…
Nyepi
What are you willing to do within the next 24 hours to influence change and transformation? The Balinese Hindu celebration of Nyepi is tomorrow, March…
Lessons From Bali
I am thrilled to be here in Bali where I was the opening keynote at the 11th Annual Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Conference hosted by…
Keep Calm and Carry On!
I so love this popular British mantra and the many keep calm variations that have stemmed from it. It got me thinking. There’s so much…
My Jazz Poetry Audio Gift for You!
My last blog Learning to Exhale was a call to action: “The breath we take in must be exhaled” … Make an extra special effort…
Learning To Exhale
January is behind us. For many it has been a time of hopeful beginnings and great expectations, for others it has held a disempowering sense…
Put Down The Map and Get Wonderfully Lost!
For those who attended the inspiring women’s personal and leadership development retreat, The Architect & The Tree, January 10-12, 2020, the above well-known travel quote…
2020 – Trust Your Journey!
When you accomplish something challenging, how often do you stand back and really look at what it took for you to get there? All roads…
The Long-distance Footpath
Most big goals take a lot more out of us than we bargain for. We want to believe we can make company targets in record…
No Roads
Several years ago, I visited the unique and historical island of Lamu, off the coast of Kenya. Lamu has paths and alleyways, but no roads.…
Rise in 2020!
As we approach 2020, what dreams are you envisioning and what promises for change and transformation are you making to yourself? You are making them…