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Be the frig light

By Camille Smith / February 20, 2024

The light’s purpose is to illuminate what’s in the frig, not to bring attention to itself. Its function, its role in the system, is to make it easy for someone to see what’s present and what’s missing. We count on the light: On when the door’s open. Off when the door’s shut. The light is…

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Bring back the &

By Camille Smith / January 5, 2024

The English alphabet didn’t always go from A to Z. If you’d be learning your ABC’s in the 19th century, it’s very likely that your alphabet would have had a 27th member following Z – that member was &. The very first ampersand was a ligature – that is, a character consisting of two or…

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High Heel or Birkenstock?

By Camille Smith / September 21, 2023

If you’ve seen Barbie, the movie, you know the choice she made.      (If you haven’t seen it yet and have seen Matrix, think: Blue or Red Pill?) Isn’t it always about our choices?  No matter your role, title, gender, age, education, politics, religion – no matter the memberships you claim – our choices…

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Use your anger to recover yourself.

By Camille Smith / April 18, 2023

My commitment is to encourage you to lead, yourself and others, by discovering, developing, and being yourself.  Inviting you to see the movie “Women Talking” coupled with sharing Sonya Chemaly’s well-researched, conscious-raising Rage Becomes Her: The power of women’s anger does that in spades for me. Take 5 minutes to hear Chemaly speak about women’s…

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My Horse Teacher

By Camille Smith / August 16, 2022

In January, a friend said she was having fun volunteering to feed horses at a horse-assisted therapy center. I checked it out and, as they say, the rest is history. In February, I began the adventure of learning horse. (That sentence may not be grammatically correct, but it’s accurate, in my experience.)  I also began…

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Happy New You!

By Camille Smith / December 17, 2021

Recently I gifted myself with the Sunday NYTimes. I browse each section, dog-earing what to read, tossing the rest. The articles broaden my thinking, the images inspire me, the theater ads make me want to live in NY. A headline in the 12/5 edition stopped me cold: Matthew McConaughey on trying to become living art.…

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Webs we weave (in a good way)

By Camille Smith / August 10, 2020

I thought driving on the freeway would blow them off, but, that didn’t happen. I thought going through the car wash would remove them, but, no deal. The spider webs were still on my car door mirrors.  Spider silk is flexible, stretchable and 5x stronger than steel. The silk from the Caerostris Darwini spider is…

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Bright Side of Burnout

By Camille Smith / May 3, 2020

On a break during a coaching session, this poster listing 101 Stress Relievers was on the bathroom wall. It has some great examples. You probably do some of them already. When my clients ask me how to reduce stress, we focus on 3 things: keeping our word, acting consistent with our values, and having compassion…

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Change without Blame

By Camille Smith / February 8, 2020

Will you let yourself change today and not make yourself wrong for not having changed yesterday? Will you let someone else change today and not make them wrong for not having changed yesterday? When we acknowledge “that was me yesterday, this is me today” without blame, we own our growth. Owning our past opens the…

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Bring On the New Year!

By Camille Smith / January 2, 2020

As we move into the New Year, the phrase “Out with the old, in with the new” comes to mind.  While there are certainly things from 2019 that I want to leave behind, casting off the entirety of last year doesn’t suit me either. I choose a both/and approach: I reflect on what’s passed, choose…

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