First of all - what the heck is a mind map?! A mind map is a way to visually outline your long-term and short-term goals. Mind mapping is for the girl who is a visual learner. I coach a lot of visual learners, so I find myself using this tool for clients more often than not and wanted to share with you! How do I do it? I believe that God wants you to experience joy, freedom, and prosperity in all areas of your life. Not just one or the other. So for this mind map, it might be best to focus on 1 year goals. This is long-term enough, but not so far out there that your goals will feel unattainab ..read more

Self care: the art of caring for your body, your heart, and your needs. Do you struggle with making time for caring for your self and your needs? I know I'm guilty. As leaders, it's important to take care of your own heart. When you're able to lead yourself well, you'll be better able to lead others well. I'm sharing 6 ways that you can implement a self care routine into your life and leadership. It's going to be fun & so worth it. Let's do this. 1. Take a bubble bath I recently discovered the art of bubble baths and it's been a game changer. I love listening to my favorite Spotify playli ..read more

Can I ask you a question? How well are you protecting your time? Are you protecting it at all? If this is a new concept to you, don't worry you're not alone. Boundaries in life and leadership are huge yet often overlooked. In order for you to accomplish your goals, you have to protect, respect, and leverage your time. As leaders, we are challenged to manage a lot of priorities, people, and tasks. When I coach leaders, they often struggle with setting boundaries. Learning how to protect your time is one small boundary you can set that will allow you to accomplish more and drive forward your o ..read more

My goal as a Leadership Coach is to provide you with inspiration, tools, and tips that work to make your life less overwhelming & more fulfilling. Batch working is 100% one of the tools to get you there. What is batch working? Batch working is maximizing your schedule by focusing on certain tasks on consistent days of the week. How do you do it? Let me teach you... If you're anything like me, you have a lot of competing priorities. Here's an example in my own life: 3 priorities in my own life include consist of: my workouts, running my coaching practice, and building relationships. If I w ..read more

Have you ever set a big goal and felt like you had no idea where to start? You know those massive, scary goals like buying a house, starting graduate school, running a half marathon, launching your business, landing your dream job, etc. I know I have. Goal setting used to feel daunting, a little confusing, and something I tried to avoid at all costs. I hated feeling like I might be setting myself up to fail. However, once I became a life coach, I fell in love with the process of setting goals. I learned strategies for goal setting that felt exciting, not scary. I learned to break my goals dow ..read more

The inspiration behind this post comes from talking to many female leaders who have shared with me that they feel alone in their leadership in their industry, their office, their ministry, and on their team. If you're feeling the same way, keep on reading. My goal for you is to walk away from this short but impactful list with 3 tangible & real ideas that you can implement today to grow on your own terms. That means I'm keeping it simple & short. Let's go! #1: Write down your goals Seems pretty simple right? I want you to write down your 3 month action plan for your own growth as a l ..read more

Being a leader requires you to be on your A-game a heck of a lot of the time. You might be a leader in your office, as a mom, as a wife, as a small group leader, as a volunteer. No matter what space you lead in, I want to challenge you to increase your effectiveness by following these 3 simple hacks. To be effective means to be successful in producing a desired or intended result. So, let's do this. 1. Be consistent Choose one consistent day of the week that you will do one consistent thing. Here are two examples: On Monday mornings I will wake up at 5:00am every week On Tuesday nights I wil ..read more

One of my favorite ways to do a quick life check before I step into the office on Monday is to use the life wheel. The life wheel is a visual tool to help you assess your current life, priorities, and goals to see if you're living in alignment with what matters to you. Don't worry, we're rarely ever in perfect balance. That's what makes the life wheel so valuable. So, how can you use the life wheel to make positive changes in your life? Step #1: Look at the entire wheel (above). Think critically about each category. Which categories are you excelling in? Which ones are you falling short in ..read more

Motivation: internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal. Motivation. We've all experienced it. We've all lacked it. But how do we keep it? And how do we teach it to our teams? As a leadership coach, I love studying motivation and finding ways to keep individuals and teams focused and committed to their role, their goals, and their organization. While motivating yourself and others might seem out of reach at this current moment, here are 3 things that you ca ..read more

Being a steward of your time, your energy, and your life is so important. Yet we often neglect the fact that we get to choose every single day what we're going to do and what we're not going to do. What we will say "yes" to and what we will say "no" to. Imagine a life where you feel in control of your schedule, you accomplish your daily goals, you feel at peace, accomplished, and fulfilled. I believe you can have this, I really do. I believe it because I've been there and have made it to the other side. I believe it because I've coached women in how to get there. And they have. Now it's you ..read more