Learning, Performance & Growth

What happens when a group of women step into challenges they’ve never practiced before? During a mountain relay race filled with icy trails, laughter, and unexpected courage, I witnessed the power of women showing up for each other. A reflection on teamwork, growth, and the strength that emerges when we face something new together.

This trip to Morocco wasn’t only about being with family—though that was the heart of it. It was also tied to work we had been building slowly and intentionally together. Our business, The Argan Springs, is rooted in Morocco. It exists because of women-led cooperatives who produce argan oil through generations of knowledge, care, and community. Going to Morocco meant returning to family and  returning to the source of work deeply connected to our values. There was never a cle

This blog explores my lived experience with Auditory Processing Disorder—what it feels like to navigate conversations, environments, and relationships when sound doesn’t filter easily. It’s a reflection on misunderstanding, late awareness, and learning how to design a life that works with my brain, not against it.

Learned helplessness doesn’t appear overnight. It forms slowly when effort and outcome stop feeling connected. Through lived experience and habit science, this reflection explores how workplaces unintentionally shape disengagement — and how leaders can shift it.