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Competency is only one part of the equation on what makes a person influential. Believe it or not, making mistakes can actually make you more likable, trustworthy, and effective. Perfectionism keeps …

In this episode, I’m digging into one of my favorite topics: leadership—but not the way you’ve seen it packaged into personality tests or “5 love languages” style frameworks. I wanted to share how to…

Motivation isn’t a cause-and-effect process. I hear a lot of coaches and managers getting frustrated with a lack of motivation, complaining that their clients or employees “don’t buy in” to what they…

You don’t need more discipline to create lasting change. Willpower is overrated, misunderstood, and often blamed for struggles that really come down to stress, environment, and misaligned goals. Too …

Most people think that they’re a good listener—according to one study, 96% of people self-identify as being one. But other studies have shown that in general, we only remember about half of what othe…

It’s easy to be a critic. Really, we have enough haters and Debbie Downers out there in the world telling us that life is ending as we know it and everything sucks. We don’t need any more. Human bein…

Deloitte has released a global survey of 23,000+ Gen Zs and millennials with everything you need to know about the younger generations in the workplace. In just a few years, 74% of the workforce will…

If you know me, you know I’m a big reader. Because I’ve read so many great self-development and leadership books, I’m constantly being hounded for book recommendations, but I hate giving them. Findin…

Society is facing a trend, one I find deeply worrisome, of becoming less and less trusting. Our trust in everything is decaying—we don’t trust information sources, we don’t trust the institutions tha…

Today, we’re throwing it back to a classic self-development topic that I don’t think gets talked about enough anymore: how to avoid falling into the comparison trap. Comparison as a universal human e…

You know what they say about the road to hell—it’s paved with good intentions. In other words, sometimes we make a decision with only the best intentions, only to reap negative outcomes. It happens a…

It’s time for me to  throw my hat in the ring on one of the most hot-button topics making rounds on the internet: AI, and how it’s is shaping the future of coaching. There are a few major ways AI is …

Microsoft just released their latest Work Trend Index report (aka, a report that analyzes global trends in the work force) and it is bleak. There is no more beginning, middle, or end to the work day—…

In this episode, we’re diving into a topic that comes up in almost every coaching session: how to deal with difficult people. From coworkers and family members to old friends and romantic partners, s…

The concept of what it means to be a leader is ambiguous—even the dictionary defines leadership as “the act of leading.” Not quite helpful. So, inspired by my own experiences, I created a framework I…

Coaching, management, and leadership has a few fatal flaws—there’s no agreed upon standard of excellence, but anyone can try to coach or lead, not to mention the fact that there is no one-size-fits-a…

Today I have on one of the most special guests to grace the show—my mom, Suzanne Michaud. My mom is newly retired from corporate America, so I wanted to pick her brains on the lessons in work and lea…

I work with a lot of people in corporate America and I’m beginning to notice a pattern, one where many people are feeling a lack of agency, both at work and in their personal lives. These people feel…

This week, I want to talk about the subtle forces that drive us, aka our micro-motives. We’re diving deep into how these small, often subconscious desires and preferences shape our lives, choices, an…

There’s a phenomena that occurs whenever we learn something new, where once we’ve learned something, we can’t un-know it. Not only that, but we have a hard time remember what it felt like not to know…