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Teamwork (aka Why My Blood Pressure is Permanently Elevated)
It’s already bad enough that my heart walks around outside my body in two separate human forms, but one of those forms insists on strapping blades the width of a butter knife to his feet, skating onto a frozen sheet of water, and throwing himself between a flying rubber disc and another kid whose sole…
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One Year Later: What Getting Let Go Taught Me About Business, Leadership, and People
One year ago today, I joined an early morning call with our new CRO. Later that afternoon, the full sales team was scheduled to meet for a session titled “Q3 Plan.” I half-joked, “Maybe I’ll get a preview before the big reveal.” It felt odd. Just six months earlier, I had been the one creating…
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Boarding Pass, Guilt Trip Not Included
“But why do you have to go now??”“I don’t want you to go!”“But we need you here!” All things my family has said to me—in the last 24 hours.This is the same family, mind you, who just three nights ago mysteriously lost their hearing when I asked what they wanted for dinner. And the same…
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Sleep? Completely Overrated: One Baby’s Battle With Bedtime (and One Mom’s Sanity Check)
“Don’t let this easy baby fool you. Most babies don’t sleep 8 hours through the night at 10 weeks old.” Ah, those famous last words. I replayed them at 2 a.m. many months later—baby C and I both crying in the rocker, wondering how things had gone so sideways. We’d tried everything: You name it—I…
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A Letter to May: Calm Down, You’re Not December
From February to May, our house turns into a full-blown training facility. With two kids in competitive sports, we’re clocking in four to five practice days a week. Every. Single. Week. It’s like living in a sports-themed time loop—only with more laundry and fewer trophies. I used to think May meant winding down—easing into summer…
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It it Burnout or just a Tuesday?
My eyes are burning as I stumble into the bathroom and fumble for the shower knob. I mentally beg myself not to cry — not because I’m feeling strong, but because crying makes the sting worse, and I don’t have the bandwidth to add that to my morning. It’s 6:00 a.m. Way too early. But…
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Processing
It’s Been a While…Yeah. Oof. Sorry about that. I have a whole folder—okay, maybe several—filled with half-written posts, half-baked ideas, and full-on ramblings that I started and then promptly abandoned. Lately, though, I’ve felt a more persistent pull to translate those thoughts into actual words. The kind that make sense to someone other than me.…
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You’re Fired
“Thank you for joining this meeting. As you can see we have HR here. I have some difficult information.” Wait what?? “I’m sorry but we have decided to go a different direction” What what??!!?? This is a story that is heard far and wide throughout the tech space. My story is not a unique one.…
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Juggling Balls
Pack lunches. Is that the right snack? Did I remember the note on the napkin? Is there too much sugar in there? 8am Company wide presentation. Are my slides done? Does the content make sense? Do I have the bullets points I want to cover down? Is that joke lame? Games this week. Are As…
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The Universe Shows Up
I was pregnant. Shit… We had just bought a house- One that was too small for us and not part of our family plans. Shit… I was a Sales Rep for a small tech company that had no maternity leave and I was too naïve to know what short term disability was let alone have…
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