Sometimes leadership lessons show up where you least expect them, like standing in the middle of a greenhouse full of hanging flower baskets. This family farm is run by three generations, with two large greenhouses full of rows and rows of gorgeous hanging flower baskets. One of the women was walking the rows, carefully choosing specific baskets to move to the other greenhouse. She stopped to chat with me and explained that they rotate the plants between the “cooler” and “hot

I recently discovered a story about a woman in my family tree that I had never heard before. She stood up to the federal government. And WON. Her name was Anastasia Spithill , a Snohomish woman who lived in Washington in the late 1800s. And she fought a battle decades before women could even vote. Until recently, I had never heard her story. But the more I learned, the more I kept thinking… Wow. This woman had grit. Stay with me here… this is where it gets interesting AND cou

Let’s face it: we all have thought patterns that have been with us for a long time. And those patterns quietly shape the stories we tell ourselves. They keep us scanning for evidence that confirms what we already believe, even when our circumstances have changed. In other words, our minds start looking for what fits the narrative, not what challenges it. It’s not all that different from a digital algorithm. Merriam-Webster defines an algorithm as "a set of rules a machine fol

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