Uncorked

Mom Far Right Last week I was a panelist for The Boston Club where the topic was “The Whole Leader”. The facilitator had us recall moments in our journeys as women, mothers, sisters, wives and leaders when we had to make choices and call upon our resilience to support ourselves and the colleagues and employees who rely on us to lift and lead them. One of the questions I had to answer brought back the memory of when my mom passed away while I was out of the country about to o

At the end of 2025 a few experiences stirred up memories I didn’t expect to revisit. In early December while sitting in the audience at the Massachusetts Conference for Women, listening to Mel Robbins speak candidly about a business failure that nearly devastated her family, I felt it in my body. Real, physical pain. Then, just weeks earlier, hearing that one of my mentors—Urban Grape—was closing its doors reopened a wound I thought had long healed. It brought me right back t