She Has a Seat at the Table. She’s Leaving Anyway.
Recently I talked with a woman I coached about a year ago. She had a seat at the table, and she wanted to use it for something that mattered. This year she reached out to re-engage…
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Career Transition
You Have to See It Before You Can Live It
When I was a kid, I loved imaginary play. There was an entire summer when I was obsessed with the show “Flipper,” and I spent my mornings pretending I had a pet dolphin. But at som…
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What If Gap Years Aren’t Just for the Young?
Right now, my son is on a gap year. He’s been hiking in Patagonia — moving through Chile and Argentina with a backpack and wide-open eyes. He’s wandered through mountain towns, cro…
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When Something No Longer Fits
There’s a moment — silent, subtle, and almost always inconvenient — when you realize something in your life isn’t fitting the way it used to. A role.A rhythm.A routine.A responsibi…
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From Public Service to Personal Power
When your career has been built around a mission bigger than yourself — serving your country, community, or agency — the idea of leaving that behind can feel disorienting.
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Not on My 2025 Bingo Card
We are four and a half months into 2025, and there’s a phrase I keep hearing from my clients—and truthfully, I’ve been repeating it myself: “That was not on my 2025 Bingo card.” In…
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Transitions & Trash Cans – Finding Connections to Move Forward
And here at the Roske house, we are in a major state of transition right now. The kids are back in school, we have welcomed a foreign exchange student for the year, and I am launch…
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Do What You Love / Love What You Do
Positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been researching flow since the 1970s. He describes flow as a state of complete immersion, where “the ego falls away. Time flies.
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