On this episode of The Courage Hotline, one caller needs help overcoming self-doubt and reclaiming her skills. Another caller needs help going public with her side business without coming off as unfocused by her employer. I’m serving up advice to help them own their brilliance. This episode features a new segment, Courage Over Everything. In…
On this premiere episode of The Courage Hotline, I’m serving up advice to help one caller decide if she should ask her employer for more money. She feels underpaid but also recognizes that the pandemic has changed the economic landscape. What should she do? I also dig into my courage toolbox to help another challenged…
Confidence is a bit like money — everyone wants it. And luckily, everyone can have it. Where confidence and money differ, however, is in the fact that confidence always has to be built. You can’t get it from an inheritance or find it lying on the ground. You can’t borrow it from a friend or…
Adolescence, the awkward transition period between childhood and adulthood, gives girls a choice to assert or conceal themselves, and the latter may be easier to do when girls’ body and personality changes intersect with oppressive norms and gender stereotyping perpetuated in social circles and the media. Their fear of standing out or being inadequate is…
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. – Marva Collins I spent several moments in front of the bathroom mirror with my hair pulled tightly back, angling my head from left to right, imagining how I’d look with a short, coily style. I hopped up on…
I sat on the edge of a plastic covered antique couch across from my great aunt. She slouched in a wingback chair that she obviously cared much less about preserving. It was a favorite spot in her living room, which had looked precisely the same for the past few decades except for the 42” flat…