coaching for clarity and courage
1) Being brave isn’t about knowing the right thing to do. All of us, almost always, know what the right thing us. Being brave is making yourself act on that right thing you’ve identified. 2) Being brave gets easier the more […]
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International development is mostly about the long-term change. We rarely see the results of our work soon, or first-hand. Sometimes finding your brave is finding a way to make a difference you can see, just to remind you that change does […]
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Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan activist. He’s also a TED fellow, which means I’ve spent a decent amount of time with him. We were in Brazil for TED Global a couple of years ago, and he told me something I’ve […]
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Prince, making some old white dudes look like amateurs I was a very good kid at seventeen. Very, very good. I loved my parents unabashedly. I didn’t drink. I didn’t smoke, not even cigarettes. I didn’t even stay out late. I […]
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Seven or eight years ago now, I was living with my parents (and husband, and son) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. I’d been an expat long enough that I could open a can of beans with a paring knife, but my mom […]
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Networking isn’t about the people you know well. There just aren’t enough people you know well. It’s about the people you kind of know. The colleague from another department three jobs ago. The intern you supervised in summer 2004. A […]
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aka: just one of the many times I’ve been an asshole A few years back, I moved to another country. This is something I do every few years, because that’s how international development work goes. I’m good at the moves, […]
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I read a blog post today about not being brave. Bruce DeSilva, blogging for the Washington Post, wrote about the time he learned of a priest abusing a child – and ignored it. He had acceptable reasons for ignoring it. His […]
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Don’t be the monkey. This Jonathan Coulson song sums up a lot of our lives, just lumping along waiting for something magical to make it better. In this case, it’s a woman he’s objectifying into a magical savior object. For […]
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What happens next? The questions over the last four days were meant to start you thinking about the shape and texture of your life. By now, I hope, your head is swirling a little. Something may have been sparked. That […]
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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]