by Margie | Mar 20, 2018 | Latest Thoughts, Lead Purposefully
Last week I took my daughter, Maddy to Myanmar. My mother-in-law, Diana, was born in Burma (Myanmar’s name until 1989) so I’ve long been curious about the country that had fallen from one of Asia’s more prosperous countries to one of its poorest. As we walked around...
by Margie | Dec 6, 2017 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
You are probably familiar with the words of my friend Marianne Williamson. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”...
by Margie | Oct 29, 2017 | Latest Thoughts, Live Passionately
Over the years I’ve been asked to do interviews on a whole range of topics but it’s at Halloween that the topic of emotional vampires tends to come up. It’s a little kitsch but the media love things like that! (I’ve shared an interview from a few years ago...
by Margie | Jul 22, 2017 | Lead Purposefully, Work Courageously
Over the last three weeks, I’ve been in Europe enjoying the highlights of Italy, France and hiking up and down the Alps on a ‘Tour de Mt Blanc’. I’m not sure if it was brave or foolhardy, but last week we hired a van in Rome to drive up to Tuscany. Thank...
by Margie | Jul 10, 2017 | Build Resilience, Speak Bravely
“It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.” ― Hillary Clinton It’s great advice. Yet if you’ve ever been criticized (and let’s face it, who hasn’t?), you’ll know that being told “not to take it personally” often does little to soften...