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This week’s article explores what leadership communication really looks like beyond meetings, emails, and talking points. It reflects on three often overlooked truths: authenticity, visibility, and listening, and how each quietly shapes trust, culture, and connection. Written for leaders in their second season, this piece invites readers to consider how they communicate even when they…






Lead Anew: Insights & Growth
Hello friends, I’m excited to share my brand-new weekly newsletter. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late to pivot, evolve, or become the leader you were always meant to be, let me assure you, it is not. The journey may look different in this season, but it’s still meaningful. In fact, it might be even more meaningful!
Here’s to second acts, bold steps, and the courage to begin again. Stay tuned, and thank you for leading anew, right alongside me.
Look out for the next newsletter edition—dropping this Sunday!
What is “Your Second Season?”
Your Second Season is the chapter of midlife where you stop trying to become who you once thought you had to be and start honoring who you have already become.
It is not a restart. It is a return.
A return to yourself, carrying wisdom instead of urgency, discernment instead of proving, and depth instead of speed.
Your Second Season often arrives after a turning point. A loss, a layoff, burnout, a health scare, an empty nest, a quiet unraveling, or a moment when the life you built no longer fits the woman standing inside it. You realize you are capable, experienced, and accomplished, yet something inside you is asking for more alignment, more truth, and more space to breathe.
In this season, success is redefined. It looks less like climbing and more like choosing. Less like performing and more like leading with presence. You stop chasing validation and start trusting your own voice. You protect your energy. You make peace with your past without being held hostage by it.
Your Second Season is where soft strength replaces survival mode. Where boundaries become an act of self respect. Where rest is no longer something you earn but something you honor. Where leadership becomes steadier, wiser, and rooted in who you are, not who you are trying to impress.
It is the season of releasing what no longer serves you, rebuilding what truly matters, rediscovering your voice, and rising with intention.
Not the plan you started with.
Still the path that belongs to you.
Here’s where the work starts!
A Second Season Series Mini Course, Workbook Edition 1
How to Regain Your Confidence After a Setback: Because your story is far from over, and you are becoming stronger than you know.
There was a morning, not long after my own setback, when I stood in front of the mirror and barely recognized the woman looking back at me. Not because she was broken, but because she was quieter. Softer. A little unsure of herself in a way she had never been before.
I remember touching the sink to steady myself and thinking, “When did I stop trusting my own voice?”
It wasn’t one moment. It was a slow unraveling. A thousand tiny cuts to my confidence that I never paused long enough to notice. Most women I know rise and fall the same way, gradually, quietly, carrying the weight without ever setting it down.
But here’s the part that still brings tears to my eyes.
That morning, while I was standing there feeling small, something in me stirred. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just a small, steady knowing that whispered, “You can come back to yourself.”
That whisper became the beginning.
The beginning of my rebuild.
The beginning of my Second Season.
The beginning of a confidence rooted not in perfection, but in truth.
This mini course grew from that moment; the moment I realized that losing your confidence is not the end of you. It’s the invitation to become someone truer.
If you’re standing in your own “mirror moment,” I hope these next steps help you find the woman who is still inside you, waiting to rise.
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Kim, thanks for sharing your thoughts
On your hardest days so important
That’s a pretty productive thought for a non-productive day, Kim. ;>)
Exploring what it means to let a year be honest rather than impressive, and how quiet growth, clearer boundaries, and steadier self-trust can matter more…
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You go, Kim!