Career Pivots + Second Acts

Behind-the-scenes of a future bookstore: Sunday Morning Tea

Have you ever dreamed of doing something completely different – like, say, opening a bookstore? Learn more about the bookstore my sister Kathreen and I and our partners Eric and…well, Eric, are opening in the northern Michigan town of Manistique sometime this spring/summer, in this special Sunday Morning Tea, live from the mid-renovation building! Watch […]

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2021 is the year to embrace sisu, the Finnish art of grit

Roughly translated, the Finnish word *sisu* means resilience, courage, fortitude.

While *hygge* invites us to linger by the fireplace under a blanket, protected from the driving snow, *sisu* demands that we strip off our clothes and propel, naked, into the snowbank. 

And right now, there’s something about that flavor of grit and determination that just seems more appropriate than cocoa and candles, yes?

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Should your passion be a hobby or career? There’s always an option C. 

Recently a coaching client of mine was having a hard time deciding whether to keep her job — a low-paying, low-opportunity position in her dream industry — or leave it all behind and try to launch a career as a screenwriter. Well into her 30s, with financial obligations that were making her minuscule paychecks unsustainable — but the idea of chucking

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