Career & Mindset

I’m restless. This year has been an unexpected rollercoaster ride. Yet I’m still itching for adventure to experience new places, see new things, and break out of our day-to-day routine. Call me crazy, but I’d like to walk into the woods and just be for a bit. Anyone else resonate with that? Luckily adventure is […]

Eight weeks ago Mike unexpectedly lost his job. I still feel a deep, visceral gut punch as I type that out. And around the same time, we hit our FIRE number. Ironic, huh? We’re unbelievably lucky his job loss came right as we reached a huge financial (and personal) milestone. If there was ever a

So you’re in a leadership role. Your title might be Team Lead, Supervisor, Manager, Director, Vice-President, or start with a C (C-suite). Whatever the title, you likely manage people. You complete performance reviews, delegate and assign work; you are responsible for your team’s overall performance, and you know the delicate dance of learning and working

We all have limiting beliefs that subconsciously influence what we think we can and cannot do. Today I’m sharing the back-story and impact of a significant limiting belief I recently uncovered: I start things but don’t finish them. How the Limiting Belief Came to Be Somewhere around three years into my Human Resources career the

It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact I’ve been out of the Human Resources space for well over a year now. I quit my HR career in November of 2022, and spent 2023 exploring new projects, giving myself space, but also reflecting on what was next for me. Read more about

I like fresh starts. While I’m not into the whole, “new year, new you,” a new year feels refreshing. A blank page to continue our journey, building from where we’ve come. And let me tell you, 2024 started with a bang and we are here for it! And somehow it is already February… Where have

I hit another milestone… My 40th birthday was yesterday! I know birthdays are really just another day, but it’s difficult for me not to reflect. People love to ask, what advice would you give your younger self? I thought it would be fun to share my top five pieces of advice for my younger self

Nearly one year ago today I met up with my boss to return my laptop and all my company belongings. After years of struggling to keep my head in the game in my HR consulting role, I finally decided to trust my intuition. HR was no longer where I belonged. I was both scared and

A couple months ago I wrote about how my quarter life crisis helped us discover the Financial Independence (FI) movement. It’s crazy to think, but we’ve been pursuing FI for five years now! Today I’m sharing several lessons we’ve learned after five years of pursuing FI that have dramatically impacted our relationship with money, and

When I returned from Michigan in July I had good intentions of getting ahead on blog content before we left for Alaska. I’ll have five full weeks to create awesome content, I assuredly told myself. One of the most confounding parts about not having a job is still feeling like I don’t have enough time