Voice, Impact & Playing Bigger
Today I’m delighted to bring you a conversation with my friend and mentor, Jen Louden. Jen’s work has spanned many topics dear to my heart: women and comfort, retreating, creativity and writing. Recently, she’s been turning her attention to teaching – helping women like you and me own what we have to teach and to [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of going on The Today Show. This was my third time as a guest on the show. – hey, I’m almost becoming a regular! Like everything in life, it gets more comfortable the more I do it. Here’s the clip (Note, the video is a little funky. If it’s [...]
Up until I was about 30, I didn’t know I had “an inner critic.” Yes, I had heard the term here and there. Yes, I was mildly aware that sometimes cruel words about myself chattered away in my head, but that was it. Meanwhile my inner critic was keeping me from writing, from dancing, from [...]
Click here to read this post & the comments on the web. *** If you are an artist struggling to uncover your artistic voice, an entrepreneur working to differentiate yourself, a scholar hoping to make a mark on your field, or an employee trying to stand out in your organization – you are probably occupied, [...]
For me, the past few months have been about nesting: I have a new home, a new neighborhood, and a new (first-ever!) dog. I’m following a vision with all these changes – you know, the kind of vision that was hard to trust at first, that took a frustrating while to bring into reality, but [...]
Sometimes we fall into thinking that vulnerability is about sharing our pain, our problems, our tears, our fears, our self-doubts. That is only part of the story. As Brene Brown has so beautifully woken us up to, vulnerability is sharing what’s true for me even when I fear you will like me less after you [...]
one more post on the expert thing. i notice that many women want to teach about or speak about or write about something, but think they can’t do that until they’ve mastered the thing themselves. it sounds something like this: “i want to help women who struggle with overeating, but how can i do that [...]
Last week I wrote here about how so many brilliant women are held back by the “but I’m not an expert” thing. That post resonated with so many of you. I loved your impassioned, heartfelt comments. And I told you I’d be writing more about this topic. I have, and I’m excited to share with [...]
This is big. I want you to step to the edge with me and let go, really let go, of the expert thing. I’ve travelled far and wide talking to brilliant women, and again and again I see us shying away from sharing our voices. We are convinced we aren’t “expert” enough on the topics [...]
Here’s Part 2 of my chat with Whitney Johnson. (Read Part 1 here). TARA: You also talk about disrupting yourself. What does that mean and what has it looked like in your life? WHITNEY: Disruptive innovation is actually a term of art that was coined by Clayton Christensen at the Harvard Business School with whom [...]
