by Margie | Mar 6, 2025 | Build Resilience, Lead Purposefully, Speak Bravely, Women Rising
Women in leadership have always faced a higher bar. Yet amid the pushback on DEI, pressuring women to validate their worth – again – they need to boldly own it, not prove it. “I feel like I have to prove myself all over again.” That’s what a senior female...
by Margie | Jan 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Have you ever found yourself standing at the edge of something you knew you needed to do—knowing you needed to step up or speak up or lean in and ‘take the leap’, yet hesitating and holding back? I’ve been there. Not just in life, but quite literally, on a...
by Margie | Dec 30, 2024 | Build Resilience, Lead Purposefully, Live Passionately
Back in Australia for Christmas, I’m reminded of a moment five years ago, in early 2020, that feels both distant and vividly present. Charred leaves drifted down from an apocalyptic sky as I hurriedly helped my parents pack up their most precious belongings before...
by Margie | Dec 30, 2024 | Build Resilience, Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
Growing up on a dairy farm, my dad often called me “bumblefoot”—it was meant as a term of endearment but that label that did what labels do… it stuck. For years I internalized it to mean I lacked all athletic talent and anything requiring coordinated physical...
by Margie | Nov 24, 2024 | Latest Thoughts, Speak Bravely
“It’s completely fine to not be around [Trump voters] and to tell them why,” said Dr. Amanda Calhoun on MSNBC. She went further, saying it’s “essential” to do so. Statements like this capture the heightened tensions of our time. They reflect the polarizing dynamics...
