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My Favorites

We never stop learning. We never stop growing.
If we’re lucky, we never stop laughing.

We can learn and grow in ways that expand who we are, connect us closer to others, and bring meaning into our lives. Below are some of my favorite books, videos, and other content that do that for me. They offer perspective, encourage thought, and help me consider ideas I hadn’t before. Sometimes they just remind me of what’s important. Other times, they simply make me laugh.

Start here. A staple, and always in arms reach.

There is a way to lead with courage, while valuing connection, and not sacrificing strategy, vision or the bottom line. If you want to do effective leadership, read this.

I am in love with this book. It offers us the life we all deserve to live.

A fun and simple story that highlights the complex nature of effectively leading a team.

We all want to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. It’s hard to do. This is one woman’s funny account of the search for being her best. You’ll learn something about yourself and laugh with this one.

I LOVE Ester Perel and this book is a must-read for those in a relationship or who hope to be… so, yeah, for everyone.

Our lives are ridiculously filled. And everything seems important. This book helps us connect with what’s most essential so we can spend our time doing what is most meaningful.

This is a must watch. It’s part comedy. Part social (patriarchy) commentary. Part raw emotion. Part woman unapologetically discovering who she is. You will be uncomfortable, but that is where growth happens.

This documentary exposes the (still) intensely-present gender bias that exists in media and impacts girls, women, men, and all of our ability to do leadership.

This story will have you thinking about your beliefs on raising boys and girls, and challenge you questions the assumptions we all have about what it means to live out a gender. It’s a tender and important story.

This is one of my classics. I use the idea of “bird by bird” almost everyday.

A story that reminds us to never lose hope and continue to live out our dreams. It’s worth it to read it again.

“Failure means your IN the game.” Great rules to live by with a empowering message for girls and women.

This will fall apart. We can count on that. But we don’t need to fall apart with it.

The message keeps coming to us. Focus. Filter. Figure out the one thing that matters most and then, have at it.

I LOVE this book. I read it with my kids and I revisit it often. Leadership lessons. Life lessons. And a reminder that it’s the heart that really sees what’s essential.

Life is messy and beautiful indeed. I love memoirs. I love people owning their story and finding power in their voice. This one of those.

This is an important topic. Question your assumptions. Acknowledge your privilege. We need to do this work. Now.

There are so many great thought leaders and now technology allows us to access them pretty much whenever we want. Here are some great ones to help you grow, consider, and contemplate.

Brené Brown: Listening To Shame

Dan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation

Why Mindfulness Is A Superpower

Justin Baldoni: Why I’m Done Trying To Be “Man Enough”

Brené Brown On Empathy:

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are

Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts

Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke Of Insight

Sometimes it’s words that bring us the closest to our own humanity and to the humanity of the world. These are some of my favorites.

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“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott
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“Let go of who you are supposed to be, and embrace who you are.”

Brene Brown
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

Alice Walker
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“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it’s own wings.”

Unknown
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“More important that what leaders do or how they do it, is the inner place from which they operate.”

Otto Scharmer, Theory U
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“Who we are is how we lead.”

Brene Brown, Dare to Lead
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