The Unshakable Self: Building Identity on Being, Not Having

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The Unshakable Self: Building Identity on Being, Not Having

In my prior career as a trust and estates attorney, I guided countless individuals through the process of deciding how to distribute their "stuff" after their deaths. Few clients welcome the need for estate planning. Like a visit to the dentist, drafting a will is often an obligatory but joyless experience. This is understandable—in addition to its expense and complexity, estate planning is inevitably accompanied by an unwelcome acknowledgment of one’s mortality and the solemn summarization of a lifetime of earnings into a few pages of text.

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Pioneering a New Paradigm in Corporate Wellness: My Journey from Finance to Founding Goalmap

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Pioneering a New Paradigm in Corporate Wellness: My Journey from Finance to Founding Goalmap

In the heart of the financial world, where the pace is relentless and the stakes are high, I carved out a successful career that spanned continents and cultures. From the bustling streets of London to the mangrove of Abu Dhabi, my life in finance was a whirlwind of high-profile deals and the constant chase for the next big success. Amid the glamour and the adrenaline, however, lay a quest for deeper fulfillment—a yearning for purpose that transcended the allure of financial rewards and professional accolades.

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The Entrepreneur's Eight Laws to Creating the Good Life

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The Entrepreneur's Eight Laws to Creating the Good Life

In the world of entrepreneurship, the journey is often romanticized as a path of relentless pursuit marked by a singular focus on success defined by financial wealth. However, this narrative seldom accounts for the dark side of entrepreneurship, which includes the challenges of burnout, uncertainty, and the constant pressure to outperform (Stephan, 2018). 

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Guilt and its Intersection with Well-Being: Implications for Working Mothers, Their Families, and Organizations

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Guilt and its Intersection with Well-Being: Implications for Working Mothers, Their Families, and Organizations

I have long had a passion for the plight of working mothers. You may think my choice of language too bold but having been a working mother for thirty years and a single working mother for six of those years, I understand how difficult the situation facing many working mothers can be. From my own experience and from talking with many working mothers over the last twelve years, I know they often sacrifice their own well-being in their efforts to provide the best they can for their family. But a burned-out, exhausted, unhappy working mother is neither the best worker nor the best mother.

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On Work and Well-Being: A Conversation With Jane Dutton, PhD

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On Work and Well-Being: A Conversation With Jane Dutton, PhD

Whether your 9-to-5 takes up only 8 hours of your day or your work seeps into many areas of your life, whether you work for yourself or for a major organization, we suspect most would agree that finding well-being in the workplace is an essential component of living a good life. But it isn’t as easy as showing up every day with a smile or deciding to be satisfied with what your job entails. Workplace well-being gets down to the foundation of what we are seeking with our work, who we are working with, what the organizations we work for prioritize, and the context of our lives outside of working hours.

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