Firebranders Magazine has a new home!

Firebranders Magazine has a new home!

Guess what? The Firebranders Magazine is coming back! AND – it has a brand new domain name and is getting a fully revamped design. Now, if you go take a peek right now, you’ll see some of the previous content there and the original design but in the coming days, things will begin changing. I’m implementing some new tools behind the scenes…

Heart & Soul

Heart & Soul

Each year for the past decade or so, I’ve chosen a word or phrase to represent the year. One word to focus my energies towards what I want to create. For 2015, my word has been MAGIC. And it has been all of that and more. So much magic created through connections, collaborations, conversations, it’s hard to name them all….

Clearing the past

Clearing the past

Clearing the Past As a coach, I often speak with people who linger in the past. They let their past rule their present and dictate their future. And because of this fear of letting the past go, they feel as though they never move forward. They feel stuck. Lost. Abandoned. Forgotten. Unfulfilled. They often feel as though they’re running around…

Another Way

Another Way

The Day that Lives in Infamy. The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941. I remember standing on the platform of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor sometime around 1986 when I was a teenager and feeling the reverence so deeply, I’m still moved to tears every time I think back on that day. It was so…

Tapestry

Tapestry

“It takes a village” You’ve heard the saying “it takes a village” and it’s generally applied to conversations about raising children. But the truth is, it takes a village to do anything. While many of us humans identify as introvert, we are not solitary creatures. And the old ways of doing are being replaced by collaboration and partnership in a…