Thoughts

For leaders in 2025, resilience is a proactive and forward-looking mindset for pioneering the unknown. It’s a cycle that, for Erin Elofson, is ever changing.

In my life, there are things I’ve understood rationally, but didn’t embrace emotionally. I’ve felt leery of my own self-talk and perpetually susceptible to doubt. I’ve had therapy to deal with some “little-t traumas.” All that changed when I was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017.

No, it wasn't planned. No, we weren't trying. No, I didn't want more than two children. Yes, I thought I was done with diapers and night feeds.  No, I don't ne…

The path to leadership is rarely a straight line. This is true whether you are just starting your career or 25 years into an established one. To move ahead and grow, we m…

In the middle of COVID, I made a promise to myself: I was going to keep everything afloat. My team, my business, my family, my sanity – nothing was going to slip through …

I've had a realization: in just six months, I'll be turning 30 – and yet my own body still feels like a mystery.  And not the fun, "whodunit" kind of mystery, you…

We started coming to the cottage six years ago. An island on the lake. Just the four of us. It was never meant to be a tradition. At least, I don’t remember deciding i…

This is not about my body, instead it is an ode to it. A prose of appreciation for all that it has been through, all I have been through to see it now through gentle, app…