There’s something refreshing about watching powerful women on screen without bracing for impact.

No dramatic music cues.
No manufactured tension.
No subtle digs disguised as sisterhood.

The CEO Club docuseries surprised me.

Not because of the scale of their businesses.
Not because of the ambition.
Not even because of the luxury.

It was the support.

And that matters.

We’ve Been Conditioned to Expect Catfights

For decades, reality television has fed us the same narrative:

If women gather in a room long enough, it will implode.
If there’s power in the room, there must be competition.
If someone rises, someone else must feel threatened.

From The Kardashians to countless other shows, the storyline often revolves around tension, hierarchy, subtle rivalry, or full-blown conflict.

And here’s the quiet danger in that narrative:

We start to believe it.

We start to internalize that there’s only room for one.
That success isolates.
That ambition fractures connection.
That women at the top canno...

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out”~Dr. Seuss

Let's talk about this amazingly beautiful paradox where we all want to fit in and want to be unique in this world.  

Did you know that standing out actually helps you fit in?!  Follow me here.  When we are authentic, we stand out in the crowd we are amongst.  This might be the crowd of our family, friends, colleagues, co-workers, etc.  When we allow our true self to shine through, it leads us to find the groups where we do fit in, which is a need.  

Psychologist William Glasser discusses one of the basic human needs as to “feel a sense of belonging”.  In the hierarchy of needs, love and belonging is the 3rd basic need after physiological and safety needs.  Cognitive behavioral compassion theory recognizes that mammals survive in community.  What happens when we have such an ingrained human need, as well as the need to know we are uniquely made?  An opportunity for growth!

We are created to grow, change, and expand.  When we gro...

"If you want to go fast, you go alone.  If you want to go far, we go together". 

These words came from my Rise to Power Ride Cycle instructor at 5:15 this morning, who may have gotten it from a variety of people since nobody truly knows where this quote originated.  

I had been thinking about what I wanted to write for my next blog article and it hit me right then and there.  Community and Connection.  Through the past few weeks, I had started and stopped writing so many blog articles.  None of them seemed to adequately explain what I have been noticing, thinking, and experiencing in my life.  There was some self criticism in this process that I "should" be able to bang this stuff out, yet as I write this today, I know it was just the process I needed to come to this perfect topic.  

There are countless articles with studies showing that every successful woman has a community of successful women behind her, cheering her on and challenging her to be her best self.  Articles also show...