What My Daughter Taught Me About the Stories We Tell Ourselves
My daughter was 10 years old, my son 12. It was one of the most difficult conversations of my life. How do you explain to a 10 and 12 year old that you are no…
Connection to Self
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Connection to Community · Connection to Others · Connection to Self · Emotional Connection (Presence)
The $8.8 Trillion Tax: A CEO’s Guide to the Global Emotional Recession
“The mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and even greater than that associated with obesity and physical inactivity.” — Our Epidemic of…
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The 3 AM Fugue State: What Ultra-Running Reveals About Your Leadership
Why technical intelligence fails under pressure, and the one “soft skill” that actually determines peak performance. When I tell people I’ve run 215 miles in a single race, they usually look at me like I…
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Why Competence Beats Intelligence in the Age of AI
A lot of people are terrified that Artificial Intelligence is going to make humans obsolete.Honestly? I think the opposite is true. What AI is doing—faster than most people realize—is commodifying intelligence. And when something becomes…
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Three Practices for Emotional Awareness
For decades, we’ve been taught to “manage behaviour” as if behaviour exists in a vacuum. It doesn’t.Behaviour is simply the smoke.Emotion is the fire. And fire doesn’t go out because you tell it to.It goes…
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You Can Do More Than You Know!
It is often said that we overestimate what we can do in a year and underestimate what we can do in ten. This quote has never felt more true than it does right now. On…
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Purpose Transforms the Process
Sometimes the simplest shift in mindset makes all the difference On June 13, I’ll be taking on the biggest physical challenge of my life: the Tahoe 200, a 200-mile ultramarathon through the rugged terrain surrounding…
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Five Business Lessons From a 100 Mile Ultra
I did it! I freaking did it!! It took five years and four attempts, but I finally did it. Part of me still cannot believe I did it, but another part knows it was inevitable. …
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Seven Lessons for Male Leaders From “Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up”
I was 2 minutes into Tim Ferris’ podcast with Jerry Colonna, and I knew I needed to learn more about this man and his leadership philosophy. Immediately after sharing how much his philosophy resonated with…
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When we refuse to look inward, we are destined to project outward
Avoiding looking in the mirror under the guise of busyness and achievement is easy. Having the courage to look deep into ourselves is hard. There are so many ways we can numb, suppress and avoid…
