Governance Inspection
Explore the structures, roles, culture and practices guiding your association.
Inspect Your GovernanceTag: Personal Growth
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Sometimes life throws punches. Whether it’s a physical setback, an abandoned goal, or an unexpected diagnosis, we may have to find a different way forward. Seven years later, I’m finally getting ready for my first triathlon.
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Starting a business requires faith. Sometimes that faith does not look like waiting until every number lines up perfectly. Sometimes faith looks like making the best plan you can and going anyway.
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It was about a year ago this month that I realized things were not going the way I had anticipated in my role as President of the Wake Forest Area Chamber. The toxic staff behavior, coupled with a completely dysfunctional board, had me in a place emotionally where I had not been in a long,…
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It was just a few weeks ago that I wrote a blog post about how “weight is just a number.” And in fact, there are many numbers that matter when it comes to tracking our overall health. Over the last few months, there has been an additional reason why I needed to schedule several visits…
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When it comes to discussions around weight, health, and wellness, you often hear people say: “Weight is just a number.” And that is very true. There are countless examples of people who weigh a certain amount and have a BMI that classifies them as overweight or even obese. Yet, when you look at them, you…
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As I sit here during this first full week of July 2026, I am shocked that it is already the middle of the year and five months into starting my own business. And I am absolutely brain-fried. I can’t, for the life of me, think of something creative to write. Since starting Tying It Together,…
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It’s hard to believe that at nearly 55 years old, I am in the best shape of my life. Just making that statement seems strange. But it didn’t happen by accident. It started when I lost a lot of weight between 2017 and 2018. You can read about that here. But losing weight was only…