Leadership often feels isolating, but being “the only one in the room” adds a unique layer of complexity. This reflection comes from my time in senior leadership roles in industrial businesses—spaces where representation wasn’t always balanced and where being the only one shaped every dynamic.
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You’ve grown. You’ve changed. You’ve evolved. You’re more capable now than you were before.
So why hold on to beliefs that no longer serve you?
Limiting beliefs—those stories we tell ourselves about what we can’t do or who we’re not—are often outdated, irrelevant, or just plain untrue. Yet, we cli...
"How did it come to this?" she asked, her voice heavy with defeat.
I was speaking with a smart, successful woman—a leader juggling motherhood and a demanding executive role during Melbourne’s COVID lockdown. That day, she was bouncing her two-year-old on her lap, her six-year-old tugging on her eve...
Sometimes, you just need to put yourself out there. I know this—I coach others on it all the time. Yet, I’ll admit that I’ve often found myself stuck in the gap between knowing and doing.
A strong perfectionist streak can hold me back from sharing ideas until I’ve had time to fully deve...
 Malcolm Forbes once said, “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” But as a working mum, who has the time to dream?
For years, I was so focused on juggling work, parenting, and everything else life threw at me that dreaming felt like a luxury I couldn’t afford. Many of my girlfriends have sai...
All this push toward visual goal-setting is great—if that’s your thing. But I’ve never been a vision board kind of person. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve pinned my share of stunning vision boards on Pinterest (right alongside recipes I’ll never cook and craft projects I’ll never make). But here’s the trut...
When I reflect on my years as a working mum in an executive role, complete with travel and demanding deadlines, one thing stands out: I couldn’t have done it alone. Creating capacity to show up where it mattered most wasn’t about juggling everything myself—it was about building scaffolding to hold i...
A week at the beach with the children, following the end of a long project, has been a wonderful reminder of the importance of taking time to recharge.
At the start of the project, our team deliberately planned for recovery. Success wasn’t just about delivering on expectations; it was also about cr...
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