I nearly fell out of my chair in 2017, when a client told me the all the senior leaders at work had bar carts in their offices and he should, too. Having worked in behavioral health and law enforcement my whole career, this was not something I’d ever experienced. I’d seen it in movies, but never really thought it was real practice until my client’s job was preventing him from maintaining the sobriety he'd worked so hard to establish. In many workplaces, alcohol has slipped i

Why High Functioning Professionals Struggle with Habit Change 🎧 Prefer to listen here instead? Upskilled I've learned to "practice what I preach". Most high functioning leaders do not realize how many of their daily habits quietly drain their capacity. They assume the problem is stress or they assume the problem is workload, and those explanations feel easier to accept than looking at the patterns that run beneath the surface. What they rarely consider is that the real issue

🎧 Prefer to listen? Listen to the podcast, Upskilled I’m guilty of thinking that setting intentions was too “warm and fuzzy” of a task for me to participate in. I first heard about their importance in a professional training I attended ~2015 and thought it seemed like a good idea at the time. Honestly, I didn’t need one more decision to make each day (or each night for the next day) when I could barely figure out what I was wearing the next day. I finally caved a few years a