If you feel like you are constantly striving and doing everything right but always feeling as if you are getting things wrong, you may be experiencing Good Girl Syndrome. On my Instagram account last week, I posted a cozy dose of inspiration that I thought up during...

What stops you from writing or creating with wild abandon?  What holds you back from going for it as a brave leader? What prevents you from going after your most wild inner longings? Likely, your answer is fear.  Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of...

Women are exhausted by overworking and overdoing. And, if what I believe is true -- that women have been languishing for years -- it’s worth it to dive into the political -- small p political -- traps that have led to the feeling that women cannot seem to do anything...

Are you languishing or flourishing?' In a New York Times article by writer Adam Grant that went viral in April, we all nodded our heads at the fact that, yes, indeed we are languishing right now in the messy middle of this long, drawn out global pandemic. Adam Grant,...

When I launched my podcast The Brave Yes Show, I knew that at its heart and soul, the show would be about women finding wholeness, alignment and living our values and in our integrity. I knew because it's what I am ready for in my own life -- and it's what I am here...

Growing up in New Zealand, Amelia Butler didn't have many opportunities to learn her mother's native language, Māori, in school. As she got older, though, she sought out ways to learn more about the language and the culture. In 1987, the Māori language was made an...

It took a personal tragedy to wake Michelle Currie up enough to realize that she longed to do more with her own abilities and passions in life. It all started when her partner had a stroke and they needed to make serious life changes --- including a move out into the...

"There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life." -- John O'Donohue Imagine a light...

We all hit burnout at different points in our lives and when that happens we tend to just take some downtime, try to regroup and then get back to our regularly scheduled lives. This is a normal way of handling burnout. But for this week's guest on The Brave Yes Show a...