by Lauren | 15 Sep 2015 | Comparison, Curiosity, Self-awareness
I’ve spent two years researching, writing and teaching about comparison, and I still catch myself doing it. “She’s so courageous and creative.” (Amanda Palmer, I bow to your naked-and-pregnant-living-statue boldness.) “That level of...
by Lauren | 26 May 2015 | Comparison, Self-awareness, Speaking & Events
I love my hometown. And I love doing live events, especially in my hometown. Add in a collaboration with a small business I love and I’m positively glowing. My friends at Project House – a boutique business services firm led by two wildly fabulous women – are...
by Lauren | 24 Nov 2014 | Comparison, Curiosity, Speaking & Events
If you could see me right now, one of the first things you’d notice about me is my belly. It’s big enough, now, that perfect strangers come up to me and talk about it. (Mostly, I don’t mind much; I can appreciate their excitement.) Yep – I’m...
by Lauren | 13 Nov 2014 | Comparison, Self-awareness
Since launching Beyond Compare, Tanya and I have been talking to a lot of people about comparison – why it matters, and how we go about transforming it. Maybe all this comparison talk resonates immediately with you, or maybe it all seems a little abstract. So today,...
by Lauren | 28 Oct 2014 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Comparison, Curiosity, Self-awareness
In the fall of 2013, I had a conversation with Tanya Geisler that turned into a year-long collaboration. Both of us are leadership coaches; both of us have worked extensively on impostor syndrome; and both of us want passionately to see a world where people’s...
by Lauren | 20 Oct 2014 | Comparison, Curiosity, Self-awareness
Next week, Tanya Geisler and I are launching a project we’ve been working on for a year. Since last October, we’ve held weekly meetings every Wednesday, co-designing a program that addresses a problem we see everywhere: chronic,...
