The Brilliant Balance Blog

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 […]

Courtney Martin offers a show stopping quote in her book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, in which she writes, “We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.”     I wish that didn’t hit home for me as squarely as it does. Ouch. Learning to make […]

I sat down to write this morning and all I could think about was soup. Maybe it’s the weather, or maybe I’m just hungry, but I really think the best gift I can give you today is this recipe. I’m a soup girl through and through – nothing makes me happier than chopping a bunch of vegetables and ending […]

Have you ever played the children’s game in which  you hold your thumb out at arm’s length and close one eye, as you attempt to cover up an object in the distance with your thumb? You finally get it covered with perfect precision….and then you make one tiny change. You switch which eye is closed.  All of a sudden […]

I have a minor obsession with good coffee. It’s not about the caffeine so much for me as the ritual – I love everything about it whether I’m making my own coffee at home or ordering it from a barista. At home, I’m partial to my French Press, but I do have a Keurig 2.0, and I’ll […]

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not even going to cheapen this with commentary. Mattel has NAILED it with their latest spot. FINALLY.  Enjoy!   If she can imagine it, she can become it.  Let’s see how Barbie sales do THIS year… 

This morning I was driving to hot yoga in the rain at 5 AM when I passed an old man jogging on the side of the road. He wore a gray sweatshirt and black sweatpants and between the rain and the darkness, I almost didn’t see him at all.  But I caught the glint of his silvery […]

My husband and I have been trying to finalize plans for a long weekend away for more than three 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 […]