We’ve officially entered the holiday season here in the U.S. As female business owners with families and professional ambitions, one question keeps popping up: How do we balance it all? Work-life balance is a highly sought-after outcome among many of my clients and business friends. But what if the concept of work-life balance isn’t all it’s cracked…

Last time I popped by, I talked about the three stages of overwhelm: acute, chronic, and systemic.  (Need a refresher? Click here.) Today, I want to give you a few tools you can use to diffuse overwhelm when you’re in it. I’ve included one actionable first step to take for each of the three stages….

Last week I was standing in the kitchen talking to my husband about returning to work after his paternity leave. He mentioned hundreds of emails, a slew of urgent deadlines, and the unfinished attic upstairs.  Sighing and scrubbing a baking sheet, he said, “I just can’t picture a world where it’s possible for me to do everything…

Does your to-do list feel like a Sisyphysian boulder?  No matter how hard you push and sweat and grunt, you make no real progress up your mountain of obligations… The longer you’re at it, the more tired you get—and the closer you creep toward real burnout. (You know, that whole “binge-Netflix-and-ice-cream-because-your-brain-can-no-longer-function” deal?) If you’re stuck…

Picture this: You’re sitting outside on a sunny day, enjoying a break from work, knowing your most important tasks have been handled and you can simply relax and enjoy. When you head back to the office—tomorrow or later that afternoon—you feel inspired and reenergized. You are prepped to dive back in, mentally and emotionally. You’ve…

Shortly after I started my corporate career, I fell in love with boxing. Not the kind where you actually punch humans (because violence makes my skin crawl and I’m generally a pansy about confrontation) but the kind where you kick and punch at the air like a sweaty, aggressive breakdancer. I loved kickboxing. It made…

Two weeks ago, we discussed how common it is for high-achieving women in business to struggle with feeling like a fraud. As women, we’ve been acculturated to minimize our power, and as human beings, we’re neurologically wired to focus on the negative. All of that means we tend to avoid seeing the good in ourselves…

The room was silent as my husband and I folded laundry.  Elbow-deep in underwear, I felt my heart lurch when he asked the question: “What’s wrong?” With a deep, unsteady breath, I admitted that I felt like a fraud in my business. Like my success was a sham. Like I would never be able to…