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The Be Inspired Badass Guidepost Collection

Be An Inspired Badass: Guidepost 17

June 25, 2025

Filters, Filters, Everywhere We change furnace filters to keep out the dust. We use water filters to catch contaminants. We rely on coffee filters to separate the grounds from the good stuff. We trust filters to help us in a variety of ways. So what happens when the filters in our mind go unchecked? Do […]

Be An Inspired Badass: Guidepost 16

June 11, 2025

When Things Fall Apart, Build Something New In Guidepost 15, we acknowledged a simple truth: Every superhero has their own version of kryptonite. If we want to live from our strengths, we must also mitigate against our weaknesses and manage our pseudo strengths—those energy-draining dynamics we’ve often confused for something else. And, there’s more. Once […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 15

May 27, 2025

Dear Superhero, Beware of Your Kryptonite In Guidepost 14, we explored how to identify your Superpowers—the unique strengths that energize you, align with your values, and help you lead with authenticity. Without recognizing these, your greatest gifts will be compromised. And make no mistake—this matters more than ever. Because no superhero is coming to save […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 14

May 13, 2025

The world needs heroes. And guess what? One of them is you. Right now, with everything going on around us, it’s tempting to wish we could call in the superheroes—those magical, unstoppable forces who could save lives, calm chaos, and pull us back from the brink. Imagine partnering with someone who’s a magical genius, super […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 13

April 29, 2025

The Case for Women Leading the Way If we’re seeking a way through today’s political unrest—through the division, fear, and erosion of trust in leadership—we might begin by returning to something both ancient and revolutionary: Supporting women to lead. In Sacred Quest: The Evolution and Future of the Human Soul, L. Robert Keck describes humanity as […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 12

April 15, 2025

The Steady Power of Stability – Lessons from Bison and the Human Heart I sat down this morning to meditate with my sweetheart and immediately she could tell something was off. Ever have those times when you don’t feel like yourself, but you don’t take time to notice until someone points it out? That was […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 11

April 1, 2025

Trauma: Self-Regulated, Clear-Minded, in a Politically Charged Times Let’s start by defining trauma.   Trauma isn’t just derived from catastrophic events or life-threatening experiences. Trauma can be associated with experiences that overwhelm our nervous system, make us feel unsafe, powerless, or out of control. While we often associate trauma with personal crises, it also comes from […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 10

March 20, 2025

A “Newtral” Way Forward or A Neutral Way Forward When I was a schoolteacher, I posted a theme in my classroom from Chapter 71 of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. It expressed a profound truth: believing we know everything is a form of illness, while recognizing our own ignorance is the path to […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 09

March 4, 2025

Endurance: What’s in You During the Difficult In my darkest moments and most challenging times, one constant has remained true for me. A handmade, engraved brick sits before me, speaking quietly to something I want to share with you today. When I’ve been in a funk, when the world has felt as if it is […]

Be an Inspired Badass: Guidepost 08

February 18, 2025

Dirt Clods, Moving Mountains, Staying in Our Lane Lately, people have been asking me how I’m coping with the latest executive orders and legislative attacks on trans and non-binary individuals. The short answer? I’m fine. Because here’s the thing—these policies, these attempts to erase or invalidate us, are nothing more than dirt clods. They may […]