by Margie | Oct 15, 2025 | Build Resilience, Lead Purposefully, Speak Bravely, Uncategorized
I almost sent a text I would have regretted. Someone had misinterpreted something I’d said, and I wanted to fix it — without making things worse. So I started composing a carefully worded message before I caught myself. Instead of hiding behind my iPhone screen, I...
by Margie | Sep 16, 2025 | Build Resilience, Lead Purposefully, Live Passionately
For over 30 years, scientists had been observing Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) in the wild. In 1952, they began an experiment—dropping sweet potatoes in the sand for the monkeys to find. The monkeys loved the taste but hated the gritty sand that clung to them....
by Margie | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
My Uber to Union Station in Washington DC this morning took twice as long as it often does, the traffic heavy as everyone returns from summer breaks. Crawling across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, bumper to bumper with hundreds of other commuters, I couldn’t help...
by Margie | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I found myself buckled into a helicopter seat, headset on, lifting off above the ancient sandstone cliffs and winding waters of Katherine Gorge in Australia’s Northern Territory. Beside me sat my 90-year-old dad. “Dad, want to take a chopper ride over...
by Margie | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
I was nine the day my dad sold his entire herd of dairy cows.A long and devastating drought had forced his hand. As the cattle truck rumbled down the laneway, I looked up at him and asked: “How will we get money now, Dad?” “I don’t know, Margie,” he said, before...
