(My Client Called Me Out) Every Monday in the Accountability Club, we meet to review the work completed the previous week and to set our tasks for the coming one. We use the tools I’ve created as part of the Momentum Strategic Planning System. During one particular Monday meeting, my client called me out. She was using the Daily Vision Action Planner with great success and wanted to know if I had completed mine for the day. It was a

How women leaders build companies while managing the mental load that entrepreneurship conversations rarely acknowledge When we talk about the realities of running a business—the long hours, the mental demands, the intensive commitment—we’re often missing half the story. For women entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurial challenge becomes exponentially more complex due to a dual burden that is rarely acknowledged in business literature or funding conversations. The truth is, while everyone talks about “work-life balance” in entrepreneurship, women are operating from a fundamentally

Debunking the dangerous mythology that entrepreneurship is a shortcut to working less During a recent coaching session, my client paused mid-sentence as we reviewed her quarterly marketing and sales strategy. “You know what I just realized?” she said with a mix of exhaustion and clarity. “Running this company is a full-time job!” Her revelation shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with entrepreneurship, yet it clearly caught her off guard. This disconnect between expectation and reality reflects one of the most damaging myths

The evidence regarding sleep is clear: it’s one of the main drivers of well-being. Yet for perimenopause women seeking better sleep in midlife, quality rest often feels impossibly out of reach. The Undeniable Power of Sleep Matthew Walker, PhD, in his book Why We Sleep, shares a thought experiment that brings the power of sleep into sharp focus. He describes a fictitious advertisement for a revolutionary treatment that makes you live longer, enhances memory and creativity, makes you more attractive,

Introduction: Deconstructing the American Dream There is a myth deeply embedded in American tech culture—the story of the scrappy entrepreneur who starts with nothing but an idea, works out of a garage, and builds a billion-dollar empire through sheer talent and determination. We’ve heard it countless times: Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard, Steve Jobs tinkering in his parents’ garage, Jeff Bezos leaving a stable career to sell books online. These narratives have become modern parables of the American Dream,

Sometimes the healing can’t begin until the crisis ends Two years ago, I finally broke down. I was coaching a client recently about caregiving—the physical toll of constant vigilance, the mental exhaustion of never being off duty. As she described the moment she realized she was disappearing into the caregiving role, and then the moment she decided to reclaim herself, I was pulled into my own story. I hadn’t thought of myself as a “caregiver”—just a mom and wife doing