EdgeworkLife™
Blog, articles, stories, and thinking out loud
“Your experience can profoundly affect the people around you whether you are aware of it or not.”
- Brené Brown
Our stories matter.
In our personal life and professsional role, showing up authentically as ourselves, succeeding and failing greatly, being brave, and forging our own path is what it’s all about.
Sharing our journeys through stories and writings allows us to process these experiences, understand what we have learned, and recognize where the journey has brought us.
Sharing our stories and ideas requires courage and vulnerability, and through these processes we revisit many of the same emotions we experienced on the journey itself -self-doubt, shame, confusion, exhilaration, humility. In the sharing of our stories, we help others along their journey as well.
That’s the intention of this Blog: EgeworkLife. Here you will find stories of lessons learned, grand adventures, van life, everyday life, and life and work “on the edge.”
Getting Comfortable with Discomfort
Our tendency is to seek comfort even when it's counter to our well-being and growth. By leaning into edgework - uncovering our fears, reflecting on where we are, getting clarity on what we want, and understanding our strengths - we can embrace personal and professional growth and take the next step. Ultimately, we thrive when we have a deeper awareness of what’s keeping us our comfort zone. And, therefore, keeping us from growing.
Rebuilding Ourselves
I am rebuilding the cantilevered decks at my condo in Seattle. Like most significant changes, this has required careful planning and prep, the destruction of what was, and a commitment to a new version that's even stronger than before.
The rebuild of our careers (whether we’ve chosen to make a change or the change comes unbidden) also involves some degree of planning and preparation. Significant change also involves the creative destruction of what was.
And then we rebuild. And we are stronger than before.
As I coach the team at St. E’s, I ground myself in five core beliefs. Dive in!
The Power of Why
I was recently working with a client who was wrestling with a familiar question: should she stay in education — continue doing work she loves and is good at – or follow a passion and try something new?
It's a question I hear often. And what I notice, almost every time, is that the energy is entirely focused on the what. What should I do next? What are my options? What makes the most sense?
The what is important. But it isn't where I start.
I start with why.