Thoughts

My focus was on the kind of leadership the world tends to recognize – the kind that comes with a title and an office. Getting more women into those spaces mattered. It still does. However, it is only part of the picture. My work with CARE Canada showed me another part of a much larger picture.

Growing up, money taught me one thing early on: don’t get too comfortable. My dad was an entrepreneur in the real estate industry, which meant money could come in all at …

I was twenty years old when I boarded a plane with two suitcases, a one-way ticket to New York, and no real understanding of what it meant to start over. I remember walki…

I didn’t wake up that morning expecting my life to change. I woke with a thud, disoriented and hollow, my body still shaking from a night that felt like it had stolen pie…

I’ve spent the past 20 years regretting a major decision. Not the decision to get married – hands down, that has been the best decision I ever made. I regret that I caved…

Recently, the matriarch of our family turned 90. My grandmother shares some of the stereotypes of that generation – hard-working, resilient, cautious with money and value…

I thought the hardest part of recovery was getting sober. Turns out, learning to rest – and not apologize for it – might be even harder. I grew up believing it didn’t mat…

I didn’t decide to stop drinking overnight. It started quietly, on the Saturday and Sunday mornings when I woke up feeling just a little off – not sick, not hungover, jus…