Hi Reader,

I have been writing something I have not said out loud. Not because I did not have the words. Because I was still deciding if I was ready to tell the truth the way it deserved to be told.

I recently finished the first draft of Dear Daughter. Even writing that feels like a shift. Because this is no longer something I am holding quietly.

This is something I am building in the open.

I have always known who I was writing for. My daughter. Women who are doing everything right and still feel the cost. Women who prepare twice as much and still wonders if it will be enough. Women who have something to say and are deciding when, and how, to say it out loud.

If you see yourself in that, you are in the right place.

This is where we begin.

The Work

Perfectionism is not a standard.

It is a shield. I did not always know that.

But underneath that was something else.

Am I enough to be here?

Not because I needed to. Because I thought one wrong move might cost more than it would for someone else.

Maybe you know that feeling. This is where the work begins.

Reflection:

The Tool: The Joy & Energy Audit

I built something for you.

It is the exercise I introduced at a small group mentoring session recently. I asked women to take a blank piece of paper, draw a line down the middle, and fill in two columns: what brings them joy and energy on the left, what pulls from their joy on the right. Then I asked them to sit with a harder question: what limiting beliefs are holding them back from doing more of what is in the left column?

The room went quiet in the best possible way.

I developed it into a full four-page guide, with reflection prompts on both sides to help you go deeper than your first instinct, five bridge questions that move you from naming the truth to understanding what has been keeping you from living it, and a personal letter from me to you.

Here is a version you can try right now, before you do anything else today.

Four pages. Yours to keep. No sign-up needed.

The Room We are Building

Over the past few months, I have heard from women who said:

You are not the only one who feels this. This is the room we are building.

A space where we do not have to explain ourselves before we share our stories, our truths.

Where our experiences are understood without translation.

Where we can hear ourselves more clearly because we are no longer the only ones saying it.

And now I want to give us a place to be in that room together.

Legacy Circles is the community I am building inside Circle.so for women who want to walk into this work alongside each other. It is where the Joy and Energy Audit becomes a conversation, not just a worksheet. Where we can each post one thing from our joy column and one thing from our depletion column and have other women who understand exactly what we mean read it, witness it, and add their own.

It is not a course. It is not a program. It is a courageous room.

The first week inside Legacy Circle begins the week, with the send of this newsletter (the first invitation to join the community). I will post the Joy Audit prompt in the community and I will be in there reading and responding personally. If this is your kind of room, I would love to see you inside.

Free to join. The first week starts now.

The Ask

If this letter resonated, stay close to this conversation with me.

You can share this letter with someone you care about who needs it.

You can download the Joy and Energy Audit and start to do the work.

You can join Legacy Circles and do the work alongside other women.

Or you can sit with the reflection and take one small step toward naming what is yours.

More to come. One letter at a time.

I share a new article on my website at each month. Below are my two most recent pieces. Feel free to visit legacyrising.com/blog to explore more of my work and reflections.

The Difference Between a Leadership Coach, a Business Consultant, and a Trusted Advisor I have a conversation fairly regularly that goes something like this. A leader reaches out. She is smart, accomplished, navigating something real. A transition. A team challenge. A strategic inflection point. A season where the demands of the role have outpaced the support around her. She knows she needs something. She is just not sure what to call it. ​Read More​

What Healing-Centered Coaching Is Not A myth-busting perspective for leaders who have outgrown traditional definitions of growth Let me tell you what I hear most often when I introduce myself as a healing-centered executive coach. There is usually a pause. Sometimes a polite nod. Occasionally someone says, with the best of intentions, “Oh, like therapy?” And I understand why. ​Read More​

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More soon.

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