These are field notes and images gathered across time and landscapes.
You will find reflections on projects, leadership, and decision-making alongside observations about nature, creativity, and the textures of a life spent paying attention.
There is no particular order. Follow what catches your eye.
There is a question I return to again and again in this work. How do we learn to trust ourselves as leaders? Where do we go for the insight that will fix the ailment, heal the relationship, convince the investor to say yes, tell us when to dig in and work harder, tell us when it is time to maybe just let it go?
Read MoreA field note on curriculum, community, and the long arc of meaningful work. I love when a project arrives naturally, in a phone call you receive on the front porch, from someone you have never met who decided to reach out and explore what is possible.
Read MoreA field note on Folly Beach and its special form of maritime medicine. It started with a leap. New Year's Day, 2014. I caught a glimpse of a seaside gathering in my minds eye and decided to book a six bedroom house on the water before a single person had signed up.
Read MoreA field note on pattern, texture, and color to an infinite degree. We landed in Casablanca after a night flight from JFK, bleary yet ready for whatever came next. I had dreamed of this landing for years.
Read MoreA field note on caring for people + place. I arrived at Camp Grier on a Friday evening in early 2019 feeling the particular kind of nervous that comes with meeting a room full of strangers you have been hired to guide through your signature process that will unfold over the course of days. Starting up on a Friday night, after a long week.
Read MoreA field note on cellular health + curriculum design. Every once in a while a project arrives that asks you to trust your skills more than your knowledge. This is one of those projects.
Read MoreI set out on my paddleboard with a wandering mind and a weighted heart. I was pursuing the mist in the distance with each long stroke and was amused by its elusiveness and intrigued by its science…
Read More“When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of your own silence?”
Read MoreCan I get you to postpone your current agenda for just 15 minutes as I invite you to go on a brief date with yourself, outdoors, right now? What can happen when we grant the doorknob a higher status as a symbol of freedom?
Read MoreOften our gripping is so reflexive, so deeply conditioned, that we don’t stop to think first about whether “the something” that we are stepping in to control actually wants or warrants being controlled. How could our bodies and businesses benefit from a temporary release?
Read MoreOften times in life, and business, we must leave in order to experience the beauty of the return. The most beautiful sky that I traveled thousands of miles to find was waiting to welcome me back 20 minutes from home.
Read MoreWhat can we catch a glimpse of through our own original lens if we tune in during these challenging times? Here is a process that aids with the tuning.
Read MoreWhere are you finding yourself right now in the oscillation between despair, determination, and discovery that is happening for so many of us multiple times a day?
Read MoreOver four years ago a dialogue began between Ally O’Meally- Watson of Business Bright and Annie Milroy Price of Birds Eye exploring the possibility of working together to license the Birds Eye curriculum and develop support for entrepreneurs in her local community
Read MoreThis summer we area excited to share in our newsletter about the launch and growth of Turquoise Ladder, our licensing and training expansion to Jamaica, upcoming trips to Detroit and Portland, and enrollment now open for our Fall Folly Beach retreat.
Read MoreWhen you first read those words you may be like me and feel a tinge of contraction. Maybe it conjures up memories of someone telling you to stop asking questions or being provocative. That you should know better. That your time is not now and dial yourself back a bit until it comes. But today I find myself reflecting on these words differently, in relation to our markets, as entrepreneurs, and ourselves, as human beings.
Read MoreWhy Iona, Scotland? The sky. The air. The water. The land. The warmth of the Scottish people…. I love the way Scotland invites and I am excited to explore it alongside you and give my attention to what you are working on and where you are feeling led.
Read MoreRestore: to return to an original or former condition. To bring back to health and good spirits. To return to life. To get or give new life or energy.
“You have 30 minutes to go on a solo adventure. The intention of it is to reflect on what is calling to be restored and then seek out reflections of your restored sense of self in the natural world.”
Read MoreStaring at the climbing wall from the safety of the spongy mat and feeling a sense of assurance from the calming, guiding voices of experienced climbers on either side of me, I take in their advice on the best strategy for getting up the wall.
Read MoreI remember last year at this time, I gave Birds Eye the gift of mainly working on our business from Thanksgiving to Christmas. That time was spent doing what we do for others for ourselves, in order to enter our busy season of January anew, and I ended up vowing to do it every year. Ha!
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