Posts by Trish Kendall

Keynote speaker, Trish Kendall, discusses mentorship, why it’s so important, and how to find a mentor that’s right for you.

When we’re going through tough moments in our lives, it can be helpful to seek guidance, empathy, and inspiration. Some people turn to spiritual advisors, to friends, mentors, and sponsors. All of those figures have been helpful for me at one time or another throughout my journey to enduring success. But it’s also through books…

Trish Kendall writes in this personal essay about parenting after trauma. She encourages being curious and to practice active listening with children before reacting to emotionally charged situations.

On Route 138 on the way to school drop-off, we drive past an abandoned, broken-down house. It is out of place amongst all the other homes that are alive, old or new. This one has been left empty, battered by Boston winters with no one to care for it. Most of its paint has fallen…

By my mid-30s, I had achieved more in my professional career and in my personal life than I ever thought possible. Professionally, I was a highly regarded business development professional. Personally, I was building my community and forging lifelong friendships, and my now-husband and I were building our lives together. And when Joe and I…

In the slight exhale before her words form, resolve overtakes defeat. “I promise you, my little sister, one day, I will take you away forever.”   I was 13 years old in the summer of 1987. My big sister, Maria, and I drove onto Deception Pass Bridge, the structure that crosses a deep and turbulent channel…

I find joy in what most people must think is a mundane, ordinary, even frustrating routine—the 5.1-mile, traffic-infested daily drive from our home to my kids’ school. But this drive is not an inconvenience to me. Rather, quite the opposite.

I’ve put together a tool that consists of journal prompts to help you identify the critical choices you’ve made in your own life.

After a childhood of trauma, abuse, and neglect, Trish Kendall’s life feels perfect. Kendall explores the process of creating home in this personal essay.