Blog
One Beat of Hope Can Transform A Lifetime
“When my dear sister finally picked up the phone that day, I was so grateful that she loved me enough to answer the phone and trusted me enough to choose to live!!!”
My sister Maria is a shining example of how one beat of hope can transform a lifetime. My time in the tar pit of drugs may be an extreme example – but at some point, we all have been in a situation where we need a beat of hope. Here’s what I learned from my sister about being a beat of hope for others.
Read MoreParlay From Away: A Digital Conversation on Breaking The Cycle
Have you ever been in one of those spirals of despair? You know, something terrible happens in your life, and you self-soothe by doing something that puts you in an even deeper place. Breaking the cycle is tough when you’re in deep. I had the honor of speaking at Parlay House about my own tragic…
Read MoreFind, Create, and Enhance Belonging In The Workplace
Belonging is an underrated life goal. It significantly impacts our tangled personal and professional lives.
Consider this from @Gartner research: “a 20% increase in inclusion when initiatives are implemented at the organizational level, which corresponds to greater on-the-job effort, retention, and high employee performance.”
How much more would your team successfully achieve, and enjoy the process of doing so, if they felt a sense of belonging?
Discover how to find, create, and enhance belonging in the workplace by reading about my journey on the blog.
Read MoreThe Day I Decided To Choose Love Over Fear
The power of a date on the calendar has never eluded me. A date holds memories, milestones, and celebrations of goals reached. A date can hold emotion: joy, gratitude, fear, regret. For me, dates also hold memories. Some good. Some bad. But memories, none the same. On October 28, 2021, I was invited to speak…
Read MoreA Year of Stillness: How Reflection Can Inspire Action
Keynote speaker, Trish Kendall, reflects on a challenging 18 months and what she’s learned from this new normal during this global pandemic.
Read MoreMantras I’m Taking With Me into the New Year
We’ve seen a lot of tough days in the past two years. It hasn’t been easy, and we may have even slipped back into some old habits and coping mechanisms to help ease our stress.
Read MoreHow Running Helped me Create my First Community
Trish tells her story of learning the enduring power of friendship and how by giving, you can get trust, love, and lifelong friendships in return.
Excerpt: Running Towards Friendship.
So, at 30 years old, after years of progress and for the first time since my pony, I finally wanted a friend. And I wanted to be a friend. This was the root of my fourth critical choice: to forge a community and to create friendship.
So what did I do? I joined a running club! I had never run a step in my life. I didn’t just join any running club. I joined the Chicago Marathon running club. About two weeks in, I started naturally pacing with a group of five other women. None of us knew each other, and we were all different.
I loved listening to them. I’d throw in questions to keep their conversation going so I wouldn’t have to say anything because I was nervous and didn’t know how to make friends.
Sage Sisters Podcast with Trish Kendall
Healing from trauma requires a radical commitment to self-care and to wellness in all forms. For Trish, her 25-year journey to enduring success required grit, tenacity, and ultimately, a choice to give all her love and to receive all the love others want to give. It’s this continual choice – to love and be loved…
Read MoreMentorship: Why it’s so important and how to find a mentor that’s right for you
Keynote speaker, Trish Kendall, discusses mentorship, why it’s so important, and how to find a mentor that’s right for you.
Read More7 Books that Support My Journey to Enduring Success
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…
Read More