Are You Prostituting Yourself?

I was. Of everything I have ever written, this line certainly looks and feels like click bait. My 13-year-old son would be aghast if he knew I wrote something so risqué to draw a reader in. But behind this sentence crafted to garner your attention…
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Seeing Past the Clouds

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By M E Clarke Consulting
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Thoughts on Consumption

Lessons from a Weekend Trip to the Mall A few weekends ago my husband and son were out-of-town. When they’re gone my daughter and I typically have a “girls weekend.” Usually we cook one of her favorite meals or order takeout and watch…
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Making Hybrid Work

I recently came across this quote from Story Imprinting when perusing LinkedIn. It made me pause and think. I am a firm believer that our thoughts create our beliefs, our beliefs create our actions, and our actions create our reality. Essentially,…
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Calm in the Face of the Storm

Staying Steady in Unsteady Times "Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church,…
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Transitions and Acceptance, by Robyn Liss

Earlier this spring, we had the pleasure of hosting Robyn Liss for a three-week internship prior to her high school graduation. As a woman-owned small business, it was important for us to provide Robyn with an immersive experience to steep…
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Rhonda’s Story

It’s ok to be me. I am enough. Decades of believing that everyone was smarter, prettier, better than me took a toll on my self-esteem. It wasn’t until age 46 that I started to realize these thoughts limited me in all areas of my…
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Imposter Syndrome

Last summer Meghan and I both noticed the theme of imposter syndrome* popping up in our work. Meghan was noticing an uptick in mentions of imposter syndrome in the teams and individuals she was working with. I was seeing it in the context of…
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Reflecting on Emergence in my own Life: Embracing the Knowing, Not Knowing and Inner Knowing

“When you know what you do not know, you have knowledge. That is the truth of it." - Richard Wagamese A Confession As is likely the case for most of us, I have found myself exhausted and dog tired many times over the last two years.…
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Reflections on Coaching

There is an ancient saying that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. This is how I would describe the emergence of coaching at MECC. It seemed to be something that found me, a natural evolution of things. Through strategy, culture…
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A Reading Retrospective

I read 38 books in 2021...a reflection on 3 that stand out It’s impossible to end a year without doing some sort of look back. As 2021 winds down I found myself thinking back through this year in terms of the books I’ve read.…
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An Invitation on this Winter Solstice

I’ve long been mesmerized by the cycles and rhythms of nature. I try to catch the sunrise and sunset each day, and love watching the moon transform from a giant, glowing orb to barely a sliver in the sky. Two of my favorite days of the year…