The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, It has been a few weeks since my last note, and I am glad to be back in your inbox. Last week on the blog, I wrote about three days I spent at Wingspread in August, and an intention I set there that surprised me. I am not an outside girl. I do not like bugs. And yet, standing in the closing circle, I heard myself say that I wanted to spend more time in nature. The fuller story is in Rest Is Part of the Work, including a hike I never imagined taking. What I...
20 days ago • 2 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, On Thursday I wrote about a list I used to build every time I was about to leave for vacation. Long. Thorough. Something I pushed myself to get through, one more item, one more email, until I had at least made a real dent in it. What changed was not the list. It was the question underneath it. Is this actually urgent, or is this just how I have trained myself to respond. If you read It Was Never About the List, you already have the fuller story. What I want to...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader, A few weeks ago, I mentioned I am a co-author in a brand new book, Perfectly Positioned to Soar, a 90-day journal and strategy guide for purpose-driven entrepreneurs ready to go from hidden to higher income. Launch day is one week away, and I wanted to give you a closer look at what I actually wrote. The book is a collaboration with Carol J. Dunlop, The Online WOW! Strategist, and 9 other brilliant expert co-authors. My chapter is called Conquer Your Story: Your Mess is Your...
3 months ago • 1 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, Last week I closed out a four-part series on the blog. It is called Living in the And, and it started back in June with one honest sentence: I am holding two callings at once, and the math between them has never worked evenly. By the last post, what I actually needed to say turned out to be smaller than I expected. Not a system for balancing everything. Just this. Not every good thing gets to be the one thing at the same time. This year, that meant closing two...
3 months ago • 2 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, It is mid-July, and the year has quietly crossed its halfway mark again. Last summer, around this same week, I wrote a post called Your Permission to Realign. Two weeks after that, I wrote The Mid-Year Reset. I wrote them because I needed them, right then, as much for myself as for anyone reading. I went back and reread both of them this week. Not because anything has gone wrong. Just because it is July again, and I wanted to see if the words still held up....
3 months ago • 2 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, I got home from Branson, Missouri Sunday evening, and I have been sitting with a particular feeling ever since. My family reunites every two years. And every time, I come home the same way. Tired in my body, full in my spirit. Not recovered, not rested in the traditional sense. But fed in a way that only happens when you have spent days with people who have known you your whole life, who call you by your childhood name, who laugh at the same things you laugh...
4 months ago • 2 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, The first time this opportunity came around, I let fear go first. It was a summit I wanted to be part of. I had the experience. I had the message. What I did not have, or what I told myself I did not have, was permission. So I waited. I told myself I needed more time, more polish, more proof that I was ready. By the time I finally reached for the courage to apply, the window had already closed. I tuned in anyway, as a participant. The speakers were incredible...
4 months ago • 3 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, This newsletter was supposed to land in your inbox yesterday. I knew it was coming. On Friday I was already thinking about it. Over the weekend I turned the idea over in my mind, tested a few angles, felt the shape of what I wanted to say. Monday I sat down and worked on it. And then Tuesday morning arrived, I moved through my morning, and it was not until I was getting ready this morning that I realized I had never finished it. Never sent it. My first...
5 months ago • 3 min read
The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, Last week on the blog, I wrote a post called You Were Never Invisible. It was about learning to be seen without shrinking. It was also about what I have come to call sustainable visibility, my word for 2026. Today I am doing the thing I wrote about. This is the first official issue of The Flourishing Note™, a new rhythm I am committing to every other Tuesday. Not because I have it all figured out. Not because I have built a perfect system. But because I am...
5 months ago • 2 min read