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Leaders: How are You Taking Care of Yourself?

Leaders: How are You Taking Care of Yourself?

Key Takeaways: leaders must treat self-care not as a “nice-to-have” but as mission-critical—prioritizing personal well-being enables clarity, presence, and sustained impact. Setting clear boundaries around time, energy, and availability—like scheduled breaks and...

Work-Life Balance: Return to Work While the Going’s Good

Work-Life Balance: Return to Work While the Going’s Good

Key Takeaways: work‑life balance is a strategic choice—not a luxury. Keeping even a small job while caregiving (for children or aging parents) ensures financial stability and continuity. Opting out of work for caregiving without planning can cost you dearly—those who...

10 Mindsets That Undercut Happiness

10 Mindsets That Undercut Happiness

Key Takeaways: happiness begins in your mind—many of the beliefs you hold actually undercut your joy before life even strikes; shifting these mindsets is where real change starts. Fixed mindsets lead you to avoid challenges and see failure as proof of limitations,...

Is It Possible to Have A MidLife Crisis at 30? 40? 50?

Is It Possible to Have A MidLife Crisis at 30? 40? 50?

Key Takeaways: Midlife crisis isn’t a breakdown—it’s a wake-up call to align your inner voice with your outer life as you evolve through decades. Your 30s may stir restlessness as success benchmarks lose meaning, prompting deeper questions about fulfillment. The 40s...

How To Stop Negative Self Talk

How To Stop Negative Self Talk

When's the last time you tuned into the self talk running in the background of your thoughts? The one that's telling you that you're great - or not? It can feel like an impossible thing to try to reprogram that voice, but you can and unless you're constantly telling...

3 Mindsets of People That Have It All

3 Mindsets of People That Have It All

Key Takeaways: Have it all yet stay grounded: True success isn’t just about accumulating—it's understanding why you want something and ensuring your ambitions align with your values. Clarity of purpose drives action: Highly effective people know exactly what they’re...

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Leadership

3 Ways Powerful Leaders Can Practice the Art of Saying No

3 Ways Powerful Leaders Can Practice the Art of Saying No

Make your YES mean more by saying NO more often. Saying “No” is hard because we don’t just say the word, we burden it with other – unsaid – baggage on both the sayer’s and receiver’s part. But it doesn’t have to be that way and powerful leaders know how to use the Art of No in ways that leave the listener feeling useful, appreciated and inspired. Learn to practice the Art of No. Your team will thank you for it.

5 Leadership Lessons From The Worst Bosses I’ve Ever Had

5 Leadership Lessons From The Worst Bosses I’ve Ever Had

Key Takeaways: Learn from the Bad to Lead Better: Some of the most powerful leadership lessons come from watching what not to do. Pay attention to how poor leadership feels—then commit to doing the opposite with intention and integrity. Respect Your People: Employees...

Reclaiming Leadership: A Manifesto

Reclaiming Leadership: A Manifesto

Key Takeaways: Leadership isn’t reserved for the C-suite—it’s a daily, personal choice to stand in your power and be a force for positive change, wherever you are. We've let go of our dreams and power too easily—traded in our passion for the illusion of security, and...

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Soap vs. You: A Leader’s Guide to Branding

Soap vs. You: A Leader’s Guide to Branding

Back in the old days, companies did branding and people did leading. Not so today. Now-a-days if you want to get into, or stay in, leadership and other positions of influence you must have personal branding. In our overwhelmed world, brands – both personal and...

3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed

3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed

Many times the voice in our head holds us back. So it is quite often the voice in our head that needs to give us permission to move forward. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, Elizabeth's advice will give you permission to do this more often! - InPower Editors...

How to Delegate: 3 Tips for Letting Go Of Control

How to Delegate: 3 Tips for Letting Go Of Control

One of the first leadership and management lessons most of us learn is how to delegate - and battle that old "control" instinct. Why is it first? Because leaders don't scale unless they delegate well and you have to scale if you're going to have a big impact. Andria...

Women in Leadership

The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback

The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback

Key Takeaways: Receiving feedback as a woman often means managing style critiques, not just performance issues: Women are disproportionately given feedback about how they behave—not just what they achieve. This makes receiving feedback more personal and often more...

Women Getting to the Top:  Change Culture vs Change Behavior

Women Getting to the Top: Change Culture vs Change Behavior

Key Takeaways: Cultural shift requires both top-down and bottom-up momentum: True change happens when organizations address bias at the systemic level and when ambitious women step up as visible examples of leadership. One mid-level manager can’t do it alone, but many...

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

Key Takeaways: “Shoot like a girl” means lead with grit, heart, and skill. MJ Hegar’s story redefines what it means to be tough—not by acting like the guys, but by showing up fully as a woman who can fly, fight, and stand her ground under fire, both in combat and in...

Diversity & Inclusion

Women Have Always Been Great Leaders. Why Do We Need to Prove It?

Women Have Always Been Great Leaders. Why Do We Need to Prove It?

Women have always been great leaders. We just don’t talk or hear about them. Sometimes I’ll read articles about why women should be leaders, as if we need an argument upon argument to support women’s leadership. I have noticed that some of these articles focus on...

A Historical Perspective to Women in Leadership

A Historical Perspective to Women in Leadership

For women in leadership perspective is everything. Even though sometimes reading the day’s headlines or encountering the accidental sexist at the water-cooler can make you feel like women aren’t getting ahead in leadership, this little retrospective may give you hope...

Why You Want a Seat at the Table  Early in Your Career

Why You Want a Seat at the Table Early in Your Career

I won’t pretend that I see every trend or can put my finger on THE solution to how to achieve gender parity in leadership, however, I do notice a few things I believe can help women gain important perspectives. One thing that’s popped up in my practice...