As an Executive Coach, I have noticed a trend that is becoming louder as we get closer to the end of 2025. Even the most seasoned and confident leaders are questioning if they have what it takes to effectively lead their people and serve their customers as artificial intelligence transforms the landscape of work and life.

One thing is foresure, the way we have been traditionally leading needs to change in a profound way.

As a brain injury survivor, widow, and entrepreneur who has reinvented my own business Potential Unlimited (and continues to reinvent as change is the only constant), I understand what it means to successfully pivot.

I am so excited to share with you that I am launching a 6-week group online coaching program that will address the very heart of this leadership issue, providing support and tools to help leaders transition their style to position themselves and their organizations for success!! Here are the details!!

Have you ever felt like you are creating calm in the storm for others around you—while secretly feeling like you’re drowning inside? As leaders, we’re conditioned to be steady, composed, and always “on.” But the truth is, many of us carry the weight of impossible expectations, private doubts, and constant pressure.

As an Executive Coach, I want you to know leadership doesn’t just require us to create psychological safety for our teams—it requires us to create it within ourselves first.

My daughters and I recently volunteered as a Peer Mentor Family for Camp Kerry, a grief camp for young families who have experienced the loss of someone close in their immediate family, like we have with my daughter’s Dad and my Husband, Jeff. It was a weekend filled with raw emotion, courage, and connection.

At Camp Kerry, families are navigating tremendous pain—and yet what struck me most wasn’t the loss itself, but the space that was created for healing. A space where people felt safe to cry, to laugh, to share their stories without fear of judgment or shame.

It reminded me of something profound: whether in a grief camp, a family, or a corporate boardroom, psychological safety is what allows people to show up fully as themselves. It’s what allows healing to happen, innovation to spark, and trust to grow.

Sometimes, the most powerful leadership breakthroughs don’t happen in boardrooms or strategy sessions.
They happen in stillness.

On my recent family vacation in the Bahamas, I stumbled onto what I now call the “Reflection Ledge.”
It’s nothing more than a stretch of stone at the lip of an infinity pool, but something extraordinary kept happening there.

Let’s be honest — this kind of moment doesn’t come easy to me.

As a sole parent and entrepreneur of the Executive Coaching firm Potential Unlimited, I’m used to being the one holding it all together. The one who keeps going, even when the tank is running low. Rest? That used to feel like something I had to earn.

But here’s what I’ve come to realize:

You don’t have to earn your rest. You need it — because the world needs the best version of you.

Last week, two icons from different worlds – professional wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan and heavy‑metal frontman Ozzy Osbourne – passed away. Both men lived hard and fast; their bodies took abuse, and each navigated controversy. Yet they became cultural touchstones because of who they became, not just what they did. Their stories contain powerful lessons for leaders about purpose, resilience, and reinvention.

This weekend, what started as a simple grocery run with my eldest daughter turned into one of those moments that shifted my perspective, and I am still carrying it with me.

If you have been feeling worried about scarcity or struggling with your own direction and purpose in the midst of chaotic times, this article is for you!

As my youngest daughter wraps up Grade 8, I find myself at the edge of an emotional threshold — the same kind we often encounter in leadership: when change calls us to pause, realign, and lead with heart.

This month marks the end of an era in our family: the final elementary school sports tournament, the last-minute grad dress fittings, the bittersweet moments of watching my daughter grow into the young woman I’ve been raising her to be — strong, independent, kind, and resilient.

It’s a deeply personal transition, but one that mirrors the very journey I often coach leaders through. Whether in parenting or leadership, growth is not just about milestones — it’s about letting go of one chapter to step into the unknown of the next.

And that next chapter? It often begins with grief.

Yes — grief. Even in leadership.

When I Executive Coach a Leader, we need to define in the beginning exactly what they are trying to achieve. We need to be clear on our goals and make sure we are both moving in the same direction.

So, I would like to take a moment at the beginning of our journey together through this blog series to define what my blogs overarching theme of Leading and Living with Purpose really means.

What does it look like to lead and live with purpose?

To see a picture of my family on social media, we looked almost perfect. Two beautiful little girls, an athletic, handsome husband, the quintessential golden retriever puppy, and me. Social media is this century’s biggest PR machine. But social media often doesn’t tell the story behind the photo.

My family is amazing, but we have been broken time and time again.

Today is my birthday! I am now 49 years of age.  You will never hear me complain about turning another year older.  Each year is a gift.  My husband, Jeff, died of esophageal cancer at the age of 46. I have gotten the gift of three extra years (and counting!) more than Jeff did on this Earth.