Cultivate Courage Blog

If you have paid any attention at all to the Larry Nassar sentencing hearing this past week you are sickened to say the least. Nassar is the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor that was basically sentenced to life in prison for molesting over...

Back in November I ran my third Cultivate Courage blog reader survey. It’s always interesting to view the results and try to draw some conclusions from them. The first thing that I like to look at is the demographic information. My average reader is a female (64%)...

“I’m afraid to have the conversation because I’m afraid of how he is going to react!” Those are the words of Bob, a manager I was coaching a few years ago. This wasn’t a conversation about firing the employee, but it was a difficult conversation that had been put off...

As I drove down the road the words from the podcast hit me like a snowball to the face. "Secretly, I wanted to be magician but I didn't give myself permission to do it." Those are the words of Christopher Hart as he visited with Bob Stromberg on his podcast “The Wide...

As I entered the store, I was enthusiastically greeted by three highly energized employees. They thanked me for being there and then went into the reason for their excitement hoping I would be as thrilled as they were. This national store that sells everything from,...

Dr. Brene Brown is the author of four #1 New York Times Best sellers. She has a Youtube video that is in the top five in number of views with over 30 million people watching. In a nutshell, Dr. Brown is a big deal. I have read three of her four bestsellers and I...