by Margie | Dec 17, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
Growing up on my parents’ small dairy farm, the vision I had for my life extended little further than the back paddock. I knew there was a lot of world out there but it was just impossible to imagine all the possibilities it held. Since leaving home at 18...
by Margie | Dec 6, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Speak Bravely
When I was in my twenties, I left what could have been a promising job (and career path) largely because I was too afraid to confront an issue that was weighing me down. It was all just too hard, too scary, too awkward. So I opted to resign instead. On my final...
by Margie | Sep 13, 2019 | Brave Interviews, Latest Thoughts
It’s often said that no parent should have to bury their child; it defies the natural order of life. Yet, to bury your own child after they have been brutally murdered by their own father inflicts a primal wound on the heart beyond what most can imagine. This is the...
by Margie | Aug 8, 2019 | Brave Interviews, Latest Thoughts
Growing up on a small dairy farm, one of seven kids, money was often scarce. I used to envy the city kids who’d visit our area each summer. If only my parents were rich like theirs’. If only I could have designer jeans. If only we could have a car with air-con. If...
by Margie | Jul 15, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Lead Purposefully, Work Courageously
In 1997 businessman Ted Turner stunned the audience at a United Nations gala dinner where he was receiving the Global Leadership Award. Without prior notice, he announced that he was donating $1 billion to the UN to help defray the effects of American arrears. It...
by Margie | May 30, 2019 | Latest Thoughts
Many people confide in being more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. This is a little disturbing as it essentially implies that if you were at a funeral, you’d prefer to be the person in the casket than the person giving the eulogy! My first ever...
by Margie | May 9, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
Last weekend, women hailing from eleven countries – from Japan to Bulgaria, Israel to Argentina – joined me at my Live Brave Weekend. Being my first Live Brave Weekend outside Australia, I wasn’t sure how it would differ from the others. It was on a warm...
by Margie | Apr 15, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
William James, considered the founding father of modern day psychology, once today his students at Harvard that most people live in a highly restricted circle of their fullest potential. He cited the number one reason as being a lack of faith in themselves. James...
by Margie | Mar 19, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
Have you ever looked back and wished you’d been braver? I certainly have. It’s one of the many reasons I do what I do because I know how very easy it is to let our fear and doubt call the shots – in our relationships, in our work, in our lives. Fear of messing up,...
by Margie | Feb 11, 2019 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
In his wonderful book The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield talked about how we all have two lives. The one we are living and the one we might have lived had we overcome what he calls the ‘Resistance’ – his word for doubt-filled excuses we make to not do the...
