Rest, for me, has always come with an invoice attached. It's a Sunday night at the cabin. The lake is flat and still. There's forest fire smoke in the air again this year, and it has turned the whole sunset…
Can I tell you about my pandemic reading list? It's 2020. The world has gone quiet. My calendar, once packed with industry events, flights, and back-to-back meetings, was suddenly, startlingly empty. And I did what a lot of us did…
March 13, 2020. I remember the exact moment the floor fell out from under me. Within hours, my industry—meetings and events—was effectively erased. My business was wiped out. With no sign of returning. I’ll be honest: there were moments of…
It was 1:15 PM on a Friday, and I was staring at a Google Doc that had exactly four words on it. I’d been sitting there for twenty minutes. My brain felt like a browser with 47 tabs open, three…
There was a time I couldn’t get through a sales call training without crying. Not because I didn’t know the words to use. I did. But I was an introvert, (a female Canadian one at that...) and I had ZERO…
March 2020 was a vibe. And by "vibe," I mean a total dumpster fire. I’d spent over 25 years in the meetings and events industry. I had the network. I had the reputation. I had the "badge." My story isn’t…
Most people use AI like they use a microwave: quick, convenient, and only when they're hungry. Although with AI, if you quickly put something in the chat box, hit the button, and instead of getting a hot meal, you get…
Remember when AI first rolled onto the scene and everyone was like: "Oooh, it can write emails! Blog posts! Social media captions!" And then you tried it and thought: "Cool cool cool… but why does it sound like a middle…
Why does your next event need an AI workshop? I've sat in many a conference session where the topic was AI. The speaker was engaging, the slides were sleek, and the list of tools? Impressive. ChatGPT, Midjourney, Jasper, Grammarly, Notion…
Every time I sit in on a ChatGPT training* or hop into an AI accountability group, I brace myself. Not because I expect disaster, quite the opposite. I genuinely love that people are showing up to explore AI. That curiosity?…