
As a Mother Runner and a Coach, I have very different opinions now of what an athlete can achieve when they set their mind to it. I have heard that at any given time, you can double your achievable distance but I never believed it. When I was being talked into my first half marathon,…
Admittedly, I’ve spent more time in my adult years hiding than I have creating visibility and it is still often my reflex. It was not until I heard a podcast reminding us all to show up and let others see us that I truly thought about it. People may be quick to say “no one…
If your current motivation to workout is an older picture of how you used to look, or a pile of old clothes that used to fit, how is that working for you?

People may tease about staying fit enough to outrun the zombies when they take over but having a ‘moderately active’ level of fitness should not be a joke for most adults. Do you struggle to bring your groceries into the house? If your car broke down somewhere unsafe with no cell service, would you have…
Mother’s Day is not a surprise event. It comes at the same time every year, just like her birthday. You have a lot of time to plan and if you forgot, I’m giving you over a week, you’re welcome. Pay attention to HER and what she likes, needs and wants.

When I was at Haas School of Business, in 2007, I have a vivid memory of what success meant to me. We were in the middle of a presentation from a gentleman explaining how he successfully launched a world famous tech company in Silicon Valley. He kept talking about what SUCCESS meant to him, repeating…

Do you show up for yourself as well as you show up for yourself? Do you find yourself searching for that elusive Motivation Bug that seldom seems to show up when you need it?
I remember the pride I felt for her and wondering where she would have gone had I not inspired her to believe in herself.
In real life, it’s important to make small, incremental changes. This helps guarantee that you can stick with them and they will have lasting change. I’ve told you this before and I’ll continue to tell you. We are training for the long term. We are training for life.
As we age, many of us see our circles change in ways we never expected. The schoolmates and co-workers that were once with us daily, have shifted, moved away and moved on. If we’re no longer interacting with these people daily, life moves on, priorities change and we can’t count on each other any more.…