by jbird | May 7, 2025 | Newsletter
The next shift–the seismic shift that ultimately changed everything– occurred when my son was six months old and the cancer mom had been living with for twelve years–mutated into a form that was incurable and imminently terminal. That was when I...
by jbird | May 6, 2025 | Newsletter
“You don’t look excited,” the nurse practitioner said to me. “I really, really want this baby,” I replied, “and I have no idea how I am going to manage adding a third child [into the mix of my life].” I had been in my role...
by jbird | Apr 29, 2025 | Newsletter
Dear Lightbearer, I see you … ready to step into new levels of leadership, growth and impact I see you … wondering if there is more to this life (more to YOU) than what you’ve been sold I see you … finding out that you got the thing you wanted and wondering if...
by jbird | Apr 2, 2025 | Newsletter
I was sitting at a table with other women entrepreneurs last week while each one shared one of the personal lessons they have learned from being an entrepreneur. The theme woven through many of the reflections was trust, particularly self-trust: honoring what they...
by jbird | Mar 19, 2025 | Newsletter
Have you ever felt like you were just as afraid of your own potential as you were that more might not actually exist or be available for you? Just like it is possible to be as afraid of success as you are of failure? Because success might mean change (something your...
by jbird | Mar 12, 2025 | Newsletter
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk...
