Following Your Path

This month’s Insider is a bit different because instead of featuring my incredible clients and their journeys, it features my own.  You can listen to the full episode here.

At the heart of February (all pun intended) is a day to celebrate love. Valentine’s day has evolved from a 1:1 display or confirmation of affection to a culture cut across relationships, from hand-made crafts at our kids’ schools to Galentine’s events celebrating friendships women cultivated. We have gotten good at celebrating love when the timing invites us to do that, but how good are we doing it for ourselves regardless of a hallmarked day?  When do we take stock of celebrating who we are with love and grace?

This month I got to do just that. I was invited to be a guest on a podcast, my first time appearance! Sitting across from my gracious host I shared my own path of career and family growth, how I integrate the two, and the journey that led me to launch Recharge Leadership. In telling my story, I sat in moments of love for the woman I was, learning to navigate growing both a young family and a career, and the woman I am today integrating each of those areas and a little bit more.

ELEVATE

There was a season when elevation meant promotion. Bigger scope. Greater responsibility.  My voice in more meeting rooms.  

What I did not fully appreciate then was that elevation was also happening at home, and it required a very different version of me.  Raising young children while rising in your career is a shared experience that could use more airtime. For me, elevating was typically preceded by a deep humbling. Where I went wrong, what I took on that was too much, and losing the false grip I thought had on my spinning plates.  

In the aftermath, once the dust settled, and glass cleaned up, that is where I created Recharge Leadership.  A redesign of my leadership journey to one that serves clients inside organizations in an aligned and impactful way.

EMPOWER

Before empowerment and after the humbling noise came integration.

I needed my ambition and my values to sit at the same table. I needed my professional drive and my personal commitments to reinforce each other rather than compete.

When I gave myself permission to align those pieces, something shifted. I felt more empowered. Not because the work became easier, but because it became clearer.  My presence felt grounded rather than stretched.

Launching Recharge Leadership was not a departure from ambition. It was an expansion of it. A decision to build something that honored both impact and meaning.

That decision did more than change my career. It empowered me to lead from a place of integration, and that has shaped how I show up in every room I enter.

RESULTS

From that place of integration, the results changed.

My decisions became sharper because they were aligned. Boundaries became clearer because they were intentional. My energy became sustainable because it was focused, not fragmented.

I pull back from managing competing priorities and focus on leading an integrated life.

And what I experienced personally is the same shift I now see with my clients.

When integration replaces fragmentation, performance strengthens.
Executive presence deepens.
Team dynamics stabilize.
Impact becomes sustainable.

The work we do at Recharge Leadership is not about adding more. It is about aligning what already exists.

When I recharge, I recreate. When I recreate, I recalibrate. And in that alignment, results follow.

For me. And for the leaders and organizations I partner with.