Through neuroimaging, we know a mother’s voice activates reward circuits in a child’s brain. Amazing, right? Our voices imprint on our kids! Even in utero, a baby recognizes and responds to a mother’s voice. Studies show the profound influence a mother’s voice has on her child’s cognitive, emotional, and social…

Confidence. We all want it, but what is it? At The Confidence Triangle, we think about confidence as having self-trust and being comfortable in your own skin. It isn’t always big and loud with giant payoffs and big-time glamor. Sometimes confidence is simply showing up. Being confident doesn’t mean you always know what you are doing or that you…

Another big-ticket author/speaker/social media influencer with a picture-perfect marriage recently announced her divorce. She is asking for privacy. Her followers are stunned. Cue the collective gasps from the people who bought the books, the tickets, and the t-shirts. Cue the followers’ feelings of being duped. Cue the tut-tut’ers who claim the couple didn’t love Jesus enough. Cue the brokenhearted fans who feel crushed by a stranger’s crumbling marriage.

Parenting During the Pandemic: How to Keep Calm and Teach Your Kids to Carry On These are unprecedented times. The coronavirus is shapeshifting our lives into unrecognizable forms. Schools are closed. Businesses are closing. Working from home is optional for some, while many are facing devastating financial losses. Some will…

How To Grieve Well In A World That Wants You To Move On Grief can feel like a tidal pull, like an infinitesimally thin elastic sphere forcing and distorting our reality over and over again without us ever being in control. It can feel like being crushed and trapped in…

I didn’t set out to be an ordained, pole dancing mother of four, but in a colorful life, these things can happen. Turns out, you can be a mother, passionately tend to the social, emotional, and spiritual health of young adults, AND swing from pole for fun. Until now, I…

The Quiet Crisis Of Women Who Have No Right To Complain I turned fifty in the middle of my husband’s two-year unemployment. Three of our four kids were in college. Our youngest was in middle school, still in need of braces, algebra tutoring, and sports equipment. Already skint from the…

You saw a need in the market and you filled it. You birthed a business. You felt the euphoria of the first sale. The joy of being quoted in publications. The thrill of pushing past financial goals. You have no boss to please, no one looking over your shoulder. You…

Ever-evolving technologies can usher in explosive growth for businesses and that same technology can atrophy seemingly indomitable business models. Is your personal brand strong enough to weather the technology and business storms? Social media has forever changed how we connect with each other, our clients, and the world. We market…