Tag: self-care
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When Control Slips Through Your Fingers
There are moments in leadership and in life when effort no longer guarantees outcomes. Plans unravel despite careful preparation, timelines shift without warning, and situations evolve faster than decisions can keep up. For those of us who are used to solving problems and holding things together, this loss of control can feel deeply unsettling. Yet…
Kimberly Weisner
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Not Losing Your Joy
There comes a season in life when you realize you have become exceptionally good at carrying things. Responsibilities, expectations, other people’s needs, unexpected losses, shifting roles, and the quiet pressure to keep everything moving forward. From the outside, it can look like strength. From the inside, it can feel like something tender has been pushed…
Kimberly Weisner
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Leading With Compassion
This week’s newsletter explores what it truly means to lead with compassion in demanding environments. It looks beyond the idea of compassion as softness and reframes it as a disciplined, courageous leadership practice that balances care with clarity and accountability. Written for leaders navigating complexity, pressure, and midlife transitions, this piece reflects on how compassion…
Kimberly Weisner
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The Human Side of Leadership
This week in Lead Anew: Insights and Growth, I’ve been thinking about the kind of leadership we don’t always talk about. Not the leadership that lives on mission statements or in polished meeting notes. Not the kind that gets applause, or even credit. I mean the kind that happens quietly, in regular clothes, on regular…
Kimberly Weisner
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Culture Is a Responsibility, Not a Department
This week in Lead Anew: Insights and Growth, I have been thinking a lot about culture. Not the kind that lives in a handbook or a slide deck, but the kind you can feel the moment you walk into a space. The kind that settles in your shoulders, your breath, your sense of safety or…
Kimberly Weisner
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Closing the Year
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 than visible milestones.
Kimberly Weisner
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Starting Your Career Over in Midlife
What happens when midlife asks a quieter, braver question: Is this still who I want to be? This Sunday’s reflection explores the courage of starting over in your 40s and 50s, not as failure, but as alignment. It is about listening to the tug beneath the success, honoring the wisdom you have earned, and choosing…
Kimberly Weisner
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A Story About Peace I Did Not Know I Needed
This article is published in Women Write Publication. A growing, strong community built by women for women.
Kimberly Weisner
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The Quiet Finish Line I Almost Missed
This week in Lead Anew: Insights and Growth, I explore accomplishments and the becoming that happens along the way. I did not recognize the finish line when I reached it. There was no rush of noise. No dramatic moment of arrival. Just a quiet awareness was settling in as I stood there, realizing how close…
Kimberly Weisner
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Happy in My 50s
Lead Anew With Kim – Bonus Edition: There is a special kind of peace that settles in when you reach the middle of your life and finally feel at home in your own skin. It is not loud or dramatic. It does not arrive with a spotlight or a grand announcement. It shows up slowly,…
Kimberly Weisner