My Little Free Library is finally ready to launch, and I’m ridiculously excited.

My handy husband has spent the last month building it, and this weekend we’ll officially open it up to the neighborhood. It’s one of my Top Three personal priorities for the year, so this one feels extra good.

To celebrate, I hosted a Books & Banter party with six girlfriends. Everyone brought one book to swap and one to donate, and we answered two questions: What was a pivotal book you read as a child? What’s one book you think everyone should read? It was simple, cozy, and so much fun. I’m already planning to do more of these with different small groups each time.

My answers: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, and The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care (seriously, read this book and admit to all the things you've been duped about).

Then it was off to Atlanta, where I spoke for CPAmerica and 33 HR leaders in the accounting industry about how to Reclaim Your Workday.

As usual, HR leaders showed up engaged and honest. Big ahas included protecting their time instead of being available at all hours, using Loom for training, and noticing how often they attend meetings as spectators instead of players.

And in the long TSA line on my way home, I started voice-recording every inefficiency I could see and the workplace parallels that came with it. That turned into a time-sensitive podcast episode that went live on Tuesday.

Spoiler: We’re often quick to fix what’s visible instead of what’s actually broken. Listen and tell me what you think.

In the Reclaim Your Workday Action Club, we covered Week 4 on Task and Project Management and Week 5 on Remote and Hybrid Work.

Week 4 (Task & Project Management) Commitments and Ahas included:

• Exploring a task management system to get out of the inbox (spoiler: she already had one and didn't realize it!)
• Remembering that when something unexpected happens, you aren't skipping the work, you're scaling it.

Week 5 (Remote & Hybrid Work) takeaways:

• Creation of a transition ritual
• Deleting work apps from the phone
• 1:1 template questions once per month to make reviews easier

RaderCo Marketing Specialist and bestie Lisa and I had one of my favorite quarterly rituals: reflections and prioritization. Q1 reflections happened while we walked. Q2 prioritization and planning happened over Yemeni coffee and cheesecake. I do this every quarter with four different people using my Powered Path Playbook, and it’s one of the best ways I know to pause on purpose before the next season starts running.

One Lesson Earned: Buy rock salt well in advance of any storm.

One Smart Decision: Lisa reviewing our brand questionnaire.

One Big Win: Getting all 5-star ratings in my Vistage workshop.

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When you get this, I’ll be doing round two of reflections with my friend Wendy over more coffee, a phone-walkie reflection session with my friend Lilly on Saturday, and wrapping up the quarter with my husband on Sunday as we map out house projects, travel, and more for Q2.

On with the Weekender!

​Episode 123: Don’t Improve the Symptom Before You Address the Source

PERFORMANCE POWER TIP Health-Powered Productivity Podcast: This episode started in an airport line and turned into a bigger reminder: visible action isn’t always meaningful action. Leaders sometimes fix what’s easiest to see instead of what’s actually causing the problem. I connect that pattern to the way work gets done. One Thing You Can Do Now: Pick one recurring frustration and ask: What’s the real bottleneck here? LISTEN (21 min) READ SUMMARY (4 min)

Honored to be recognized for the third time during Women’s History Month!

RADERCO RECOGNITION Founded by Women: 20 Female Founders on a Mission Proud to be in the company of impactful women building meaningful businesses and doing work that matters. One Thing You Can Do Now: Take a peek at the list and discover more women-led businesses worth your cheers and collaboration. READ Founded by Women POST

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