The Leap To Lead Blog

Honest writing for women in the middle of something.

Career change, relocation, business rebuilds, identity shifts and the question of what comes next.

Why You Can't Think This Through On Your Own

Complex transition isn't a willpower problem and it isn't an intelligence problem. It's that the thinking needs somewhere to land, and most women in the middle of one don't have anywhere it can.

Why You Can't Think This Through On Your Own

The Credentials Nobody Asked You For

Self-disqualification, the quiet habit of ruling yourself out by naming a qualification nobody requested.

The Credentials Nobody Asked You For

The Transition You Didn't Choose

Most of what gets written about transition assumes you chose it. You decided to leave, you decided to start something, you decided it was time. This post is about the other kind, the change that arrives without your consent and that you're then expe

The Transition You Didn't Choose

Why You Can Explain Everything Except What You Actually Wan

Most of the women I work with can explain their situation in full detail and still can't say the one plain sentence underneath it. Not because they're unclear, but because nobody has ever listened for the thread.

Why You Can Explain Everything Except What You Actually Wan

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