What if the skills you’ll need to retire well are also the skills you need to live well? And to lead well? It turns out, they are. Retirement is not just reserved for a stage late in life when you're not working anymore, it happens throughout our lives on multiple...

“We're not here just to do what everyone else is doing. There's some puzzle piece that we bring to the whole, that's our gift.” - Carissa Kazyss Society has a way of getting us to try to fit in. It’s built into our school system, it’s pervasive across all ad platforms...

In a world that celebrates giving and vilifies receiving, how do we learn to receive? And why is it important, especially to leaders? Stephanie and Maren discuss this critical component of leadership that impacts everything from relationships to bottom lines. This...

“How we lead others is how we lead ourselves.” What does that even mean? And how does it help me as a person, and as a leader? We are different with different people - we’re one way with our spouse, another with our boss, another with our teams - we take on different...

Let’s step into controversy! In business we’re often told to give more than expected. That’s good business. Yet personally, giving more that someone expects, needs or wants is often  a sign of an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship. So which is it? How do we know if...

Resiliency. We all want it. It’s a buzzword in business. Everyone has an opinion on how to ‘be resilient’. This week, Maren and Stephanie take a look at this hot leadership topic from a slightly different perspective and give three clear, actionable steps that work....

Values are powerful tools, yet most of the time we don’t know what a value is, no less what our particular values are. Today Stephanie and Maren pull apart what values mean to us personally, and in our businesses. Knowing your values (and your business’ values) is one...

You feel the pressure to excel and exceed and yet you don’t feel connection or support.You start to feel isolated and want to give up.Where do you turn?How do you bring out the best in yourself? In the people around you? Today’s guest, Jeff Sanchez, experienced that...

Negative emotions in our culture are something to be “fixed” and are usually pushed away, blocked or ignored - shoved under the bed of our lives. Just because we've blocked or ignored something doesn't mean that it's gone away, which is essential for leaders to...

You’re pedaling away in your business and a car goes by at top speed, you pedal faster not knowing how to switch vehicles. Like does attract like, so your life of pedaling attracts more of the same,  gurus teaching how to pedal more efficiently, partners, employees...