It's been a rough(ish) couple of weeks.

Scene 1: San Juan. I flew in to keynote for PrimeGlobal and felt a cold creeping in. I left the networking event early, slept, and still woke up scratchy on Tuesday, keynote day. I powered through, lost most of my voice a few hours later, but still walked Old San Juan with my friend Wendy (I didn't feel terrible, and I wasn't going to miss seeing the city).

Highlight: a coquito iced latte in a tiny café. Not-a-highlight: realizing my $10.18 drink was ~5 ounces after mining out the glacier of ice. Note to self: ask for light ice.

Big takeaway from the attendees? Many were using To/Cc wrong. Retraining their team (and themselves) will streamline communication, prevent dropped balls, and hold the right people accountable.

Power tip: if you’re on Cc, you don’t have an action.

Scene 2: Travel day spiral. The barometric pressure of five hours in the air turned a cold into a full‑blown sinus smackdown—no voice, pounding head, left ear unable to hear. Antibiotics, prednisone, Tessalon, inhaler… I've been a walking drugstore. I had to reschedule two virtual presentations, missed a sold‑out show for my husband, canceled our first dinner with friends in our new kitchen, and watched more Netflix than I had in two months, but still finished reading two books and built the Reclaim Your Workday 8-Week Action Club launching March 3.

I’ll teach a chapter summary each week, hold a hot seat with 2–3 people, and then everyone commits to one action. Seats limited to 30; team packs for 3–5. Learn more.

When you get this, I'll be Elevating the Focus of MassCPAs Young Professionals and hunkering down for our cold winter weekend in Raleigh!

On with the Weekender!

Justin Jones-Fosu is one of my favorite humans and wrote the multi-award-winning book - I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World. He's an exceptional speaker on bringing meaning to the workplace and in his spare time creates educational initiatives through the Work Meaningful Foundation, including providing clean water and constructing a 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗱’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗮 (disclaimer: I'm a proud board member!). Learn more about him here.​

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