Leadership Coaching

My mother got married at 17.

She didn’t graduate high school. She didn’t have choices.
She didn’t have a voice.

Today, she’s the caregiver to my father, who has dementia.
The self-sacrifice didn’t stop when we grew up — it just took a new form.

This Mother’s Day, I’m honouring her.

And I’m thinking hard about what it means to have inherited a life full of choices she never had.

So I wrote something.

- About why I don’t talk about retirement.
- About refusing to spend my working years counting down to “freedom” when the work itself is the life I want to be inside of.
- About the mothers who adore their careers and have spent years quietly apologizing for it.
- About the women who chose differently.
- About every life that doesn’t fit neatly on a greeting card.

For my mother — who didn’t get to choose.
For my kids — who are watching what I do with the choosing.
For every woman who’s still figuring out the shape of her own life.

Happy Mother’s Day. To all of you.

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Five years ago, I had a deal with myself:

if I couldn’t make my business work in a year I’d go back to the c-suite.

Well… That plan didn’t age well 😂

Today, Crucible Inc. not just a business. It’s my purpose.

It started from my own transformation. Back in 2020 and now it’s about helping others create theirs.

Being nominated for the RBC Canadian woman entrepreneur awards is cool, but honestly, the best part has always been the before and afters, watching people and teams take their change and turn it into something great.

Transformation is never easy, but it’s where the gold is.

it’s wild how sometimes the thing you build to help other others ends up transforming you too.

You're the one they call when things are on fire. The Fixer.
It feels like a compliment, but it's also a curse.

The standard advice to "delegate more" is lazy and ignores a critical truth: the right leadership style depends entirely on the company you're in.

Before you try to change your stripes, know your environment.