I first met Kashonna Holland, CEO of Simply Kashonna, in fall 2018. I had just started Melissa Curtin Coaching in August of that year and I was at the beginning of my most recent reinvention adventure. 

I was attending an event where candidates for elected office were responding to constituent questions. We were all asked to introduce ourselves around the room. 

This was my first outing in my new skin. I wasn’t yet owning that I was the CEO of my own business, a coach, and a consultant. 

As they started in the front row on the other side of the room, I remember thinking to myself, “Thank goodness I sat in the back. Maybe they won’t get to me today.” 

I listened to everyone stand up and share their name and affiliation, some not bothering to turn around and face the audience behind them, when seemingly out of nowhere, this fabulously dressed, shining light of a woman stands up, faces the crowd, and says:

“Hello everyone! I’m...

Here we are already at the end of July and nearing the end of the Dog Days of Summer. 

Where does the time go?!? I say this out loud often, even though I never get an answer. 

Time just keeps doing what time does. Ticking away second by second. 

Time doesn’t care that I haven’t gone to the beach this summer, to the mountains, or on a hike, a bike ride, or a picnic. It doesn’t care about catching lightning bugs, eating dinner underneath the stars with dear friends, or the fact that I haven’t yet eaten my share of watermelon. It just doesn’t care.

So many people I talk to, including myself too much of the time, are riding the “all work and no play merry-go-round.” As my mother often used to say to me, “All work and no play makes Jane a very dull girl.” I always hated it when she said this, even though I knew she was right.

I’ve been asking my clients to reflect on some of their favorite childhood memories...