This week I did my meetings from Monarch Meadows Retreat, which means I also gave three incredible friends a tour. And, I have no smiling selfies to post.Not one. I was working before they got there. Sweaty. Not exactly photo ready. And

It never fails. The joy that overtakes someone the moment I hand them a bouquet. "Oh my gosh, thank you! These are amazing. Oh my gosh, they smell so good!" "Wait, these are from your garden? You grew these?!" Almost always the same,

Discomfort is not the same as harm. Read that again. Slowly. Discomfort is not the same as harm. We have been so conditioned to protect people from hard feelings that we have started to confuse the two. And when we do that, we

I recently asked a group of leaders to name their three biggest challenges, and to tell me their highest priority right now. I wasn't surprised by the answers. And yet, they still broke my heart a little. The most common problem named:

Every time I walk the labyrinth at Monarch Meadows, I dream of two swings hanging from this tree. So I asked AI to put them there for me. A reminder of simpler times. A reminder that we must both rest and

At the end of the session, the leader admitted: Every time I see this on my calendar, I feel like I don't have time for it. Sometimes I even feel a little resentment. And every single time, by the end

I've officially signed a contract and scheduled not one but two opportunities for my work to be featured on a very big platform. A platform I myself am a member of. A platform with reach far beyond anything I have had

You get a driveway selfie in front of my soon to be very full of blooms flower garden today. No stage photo. No high heels. Visible tattoos. Cute outfit. Full authenticity. This morning I had the honor of keynoting from one of

When you spend years dreaming, laboring, and building something, you tend to get tripped up on the things that don't go right. What didn't come in on time. What isn't exactly the way you wanted it. And yet you must

I am different. Forever changed. Transformed. I was one way & now I am me. What changed? Jesus, of course. And the love, obedience, and wisdom of @thejamiewinship and @thedonnawinship and their incredible team at @identityexchange. I just spent three days surrounded by