The Brilliant Balance Blog

Today I’m bringing you a guest post by my friend Shauna Mackenzie. Shauna and I crossed paths when she invited me to be a contributor to Best Kept Self, her online platform for female entrepreneurs. She’s a dynamo with a fascinating lifestyle (e.g. running her business from cool spots around the world via Airbnb in […]

The title of this post will get lots of clicks, because lots of us are searching for that magic formula. The shortcut to the other side. The way to hotwire our results. Usually, I eschew shortcuts, but for once, I actually do have a bit of magic for you. There is a way to practically guarantee results for whatever you want […]

Over the past several weeks I’ve coached three entrepreneurs through their launches – that big day when they release a new piece of work into the world for the very first time. If you’ve never done this yourself you would not believe the amount of energy that must be summoned to actually push the GO LIVE button on a […]

Last year, my two youngest children were in a school production of Winnie The Pooh. I’d all but forgotten the deep wisdom to be gleaned from the pages of A.A. Milne’s Tales of Winnie the Pooh, but the lessons came flooding back to me as I listened to my littles sing their hearts out. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and the […]

Sometimes people ask me how I get so much done in a day (or a week, or a year). I used to roll my eyes when this question came up because it seemed like people thought I had some kind of secret. But then I realized that I sort of do. (Go figure!) I do get […]

My children have a new bus driver this year. I’ve honestly never spent a great deal of time thinking about the person who transports my kids to and from school every day until this woman crossed our path. You’re about to find out why. One day last week, Tracy pulled up to the stop and as the last […]

My husband and I have been trying to finalize plans for a long weekend away for several months now.  It feels like we have literally been on every travel site that exists, investigated flights on every airline, read hotel reviews from every brand, checked weather forecasts in every time zone, and compared more rental cars than any human being should […]