Improve your relationships by learning the difference.

Hint: "Not being your old nasty boss" is not a leadership strategy.

Empowerment and Entitlement can look alike. But to people we interact with, they don't feel the same.

Why it's time to move out of the drama of processing and into the business of loving.

When people are under the gun, unless they are super clear on what their job is, they may unconsciously resort to four main default "jobs," while what they are actually contracted to do takes a close, sometimes distant second.

Although it was a special Valentine's Day dinner, in a very pricey restaurant, we could hear the conversation of the couple next to us all too well. They weren't loud: We were quiet. Silent, in fact.

When you clarify your roles in relationship and bring consciousness to the leadership in them, something sacred happens. All the energy dedicated to jockeying for power and position gets contained in conscious roles, and frees you up to really focus on loving and on things you love to do together.