May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it’s on my mind because it comes up constantly in my coaching work.

The stories, or narratives, we tell ourselves can make or break our outcomes, both for ourselves and in our relationships with others. Those stories are built from the thousands of random thoughts we have every day. The thoughts we choose to listen to become the narratives in our heads. Over time, those narratives can start to feel like facts. And once something feels like a belief, it drives our actions… and eventually our results - whether those are the outcomes we wanted or not. I try...

As this year draws to a close and we look ahead to 2026, I’ve found myself slowing down in some noticeable ways. Listening more. Questioning more. Letting go of things that once felt essential but no longer do. And I’m paying closer attention to joy. Not the loud, performative kind, but the quiet, steady kind that signals alignment. It feels like the right moment to name this out loud, because so many leaders I work with are feeling something similar: successful on paper, exhausted in their...