I have more clarity about our future, and I can see how this kind of work can be a complete game-changer for an organization.

Certain kinds of tension can be good—healthy, even. And when you can understand, manage, and nurture these healthy tensions, it can make your team even better.

I thought it’d be special to sum up the 10 lessons I've learned in our first year of marriage that I think can apply to any partnership.

The questions that make you get butterflies in your stomach and make you feel a little uncomfortable—those are the real questions. The ones that, by asking them, help you grow the most.

The more that you can seek to understand the Appreciation Languages of your coworkers, the more you can value them in the way that means the most to them.

At its best, feedback is a chance to work together to build a bridge in a difficult moment—a bridge that will hopefully lead to greater connection and trust between you.

If you are doubting yourself, I hope this post reminds you of your worth and gives you some tangible next steps to take in advocating for you.

I think we all deserve a better world at work. A world in which quiet quitting doesn’t have to be a thing, where we feel valued, and where work works with life instead of takes from it.

I hope you remember this story the next time you are in a place where you have a choice to either back down or get back up again.

The thing about uncertainty is that it gives us permission. To try new things. To pivot. To leave what isn’t working. To take risks. To invent.

Give yourself the same grace and love you would extend to someone on your team. Allow yourself to be human. Allow your team the chance to help and support you.

These thoughts have prevented me from putting myself out there and being fully myself.

In my journey to cultivate new relationships, I’ve felt discouraged and, at times, lonely.

We have to remind ourselves that, no matter how much we love our work and how hard we like to work, rest helps us to be better and more effective.

I can’t even begin to tell you how meaningful it was to hear my parents’ answers to these questions. I learned things about their lives that I would have never known had we not had this conversation.

How, when I know that something is so important to me and I know exactly what I need to do in order to feel at my best, did I get right back to a place where I no longer feel good?

Monique’s feedback is what has changed our company and made it into the organization we have today.

These lessons aren’t just for book writers. While they’ve helped make the writing process easier, simpler, and more fun, they’ve also helped me in other areas of my work and my life.