The Unlikely Artist

It's natural to want a road map before you start anything new. That’s why your first inclination when you realize you don’t love your job anymore might be to dive into the research. You gather as much information as you can about what other people like you have done. You consult with market experts and head hunters. You ask your friends for advice. You spend a lot of time on Google. You’re making a mistake because there’s a huge downside to this approach...

This episode challenges you to bring all the pieces of you to the table in every role you play. When you edit out bits and pieces in different contexts, you show up less powerfully and creatively than you could. You don’t take advantage of the full wealth of all your experiences. The result is you don’t achieve your full potential in any of your roles and you make life less enjoyable than it could be...

Our tricky perfectionist brains like to spin the concept of feeling “good enough” into just one more thing we need to strive to achieve. When we discover just how often we don’t feel good about ourselves, we feel like we’re failing. We pile on even more self-criticism. We end up feeling badly about the fact we feel bad! In this episode, you learn that “enoughness” is never an end state. It's a practice you decide to commit to keep coming back to...

One of the biggest challenges we encounter is not knowing how to make decisions that serve us. In this episode, I teach you my concept “expansive wholeness”. It’s a framework I’ve created to help you start making decisions that are FOR you.

You're going to so enjoy this interview with Tom Ashbourne. Until 2013, Tom was a VP of Finance for Scotiabank, one of Canada's largest banks. After Tom’s retirement, and with some urging from his wife, Tom catapulted to international fame as a gifted sculptor who creates beautiful stone pieces. In his sculpting, he has found both his passion and himself...

All the discussion about cancel culture got me thinking about the concept of being thrust out of the social tribe and our fears around that. In this episode, we explore the concept of being cancelled in a completely different context – a concept I call “self-cancelling”. It’s something we do to ourselves to create a sense of belonging. It’s premised on the assumption that our sense of belonging comes from other people...

This podcast isn’t a room you come to for only the best, most “positive” feelings. It’s a room where you get to be real because being real is part and parcel of the savviest way to move forward. Your ability to cope with your full range of feelings is a key contributing factor to your ability to create a life you desire. The part of you that suffers, judges, feels unworthy, gets hyper-critical, and experiences grief and sadness is along for the ride...

Each of us has an enormous creative spirit that lives inside us. It’s that part of us that wants us to stop confining ourselves within the rigid boundaries we’ve drawn for ourselves, and to explore a much broader vision of what’s possible. Your life is like a work of art, and you can decide what you want to add next to your canvas. There are two ways you can approach this. The traditional way and what I call the “second way”. The second way will help you create a work of art you love...

This episode deals with one of the most common patterns that hold us back from showing up powerfully in the world. We limit ourselves in important ways when we focus on what other people think and substitute their judgement for ours. In this episode, I teach you how to spot this issue and become aware of the impact it has on your choices. You’ll learn how to not reject opportunities based on what other people think and to honour what you think instead...

It used to make sense for us to advance our careers by making decisions that would consistently move us forward in the same direction. To keep building on whatever we’ve already accomplished. But if you’re like most of my listeners, your soul is crying out for more personal fulfillment in your working day. A linear path forward won’t get you there. Creativity, resilience, and an ability to be nimble are the qualities that will fuel your growth and bring you success in an area you love...