Author Archives

  • If you really knew me, you would know that I’ve started spending more time pondering my blogs than writing them… musing, staying open, gathering bits and pieces of stories or information that are so readily available on the internet, and mapping them all out in what would look like the inside of a baseball to [...]

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  • The other evening I learned something really fundamental about business – or at least business as I’m doing it, which is definitely not “business as usual.”  I was going to hunker down for another hour or so of work when I was inspired to play a game of cards. Yeah, I know. Cards? It felt [...]

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  • My friend Stacy McMillan sent this email to a few friends and I was so inspired, I asked her if I could share it on our blog… and she said “Yes!” Stacy is one of those people who inspires others just by being around… her positive energy is infectious and her capacity to hold space [...]

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  • I was deeply touched by my friend Chelsey Williams’ heartbreaking story of having lived with the tremendous grief of being alienated from her sons by their father over a period of many years. Because of this difficult experience, she has committed herself to helping and teaching others about this devastating family dynamic by founding the [...]

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  •   As I promised last month, this month’s blog features the Guatemala Human Rights Commission, the organization for which my amazingly dedicated, passionate and incredibly knowledgeable cousin Kelsey Alford-Jones is the Director. Although not directly related to Mother’s Day or Memorial Day (special days in the U.S. on which we commemorate mothers and military veterans), [...]

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  • I’m sure we can agree what happened in Boston and Watertown last month was a horrible tragedy. There is no doubt that all of our hearts, thoughts and prayers are likely continuing to go out to the victims, their families and these communities in shock from those events. And… what about the young men who [...]

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  • “Today, I will fall in love with life at least three times…” (Matthew Fox) There is something I am coming to understand… deep in my bones. It’s been sitting there patiently waiting for me to find it, and has hinted to me many times before. I calls in small quiet whispers, especially right before I [...]

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  • Once again, I am inspired by my family. They never cease to amaze me with their capacity for compassion, love and standing up for what’s right. I know this propensity definitely came through my grandparents, but there must be a long lineage because I see it echoed through every member of my family in many [...]

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  • At Get That You Matter, our staff have all created goals for how our Being will manifest in our lives and raise the bar for our company. Erin is creating completion conversations, Eric is creating completion of our new logo and website (to be launched soon!), Cheyenne is creating even more cadence for our social [...]

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  • Sweet Darkness When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your [...]

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