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 | 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,...
by Lauren | 30 Sep 2014 | Comparison, Curiosity, Self-awareness
Can praise be violent? Alanis Morissette thinks so – and the more consideration I give to her words, the more deeply they resonate. I recently listened to a conversation between Tami Simon (founder of Sounds True) and Alanis Morissette, recorded at last year’s...
