by Diane Lloyd | Jul 22, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership, Listening
Your inner wisdom is calling! Will you answer? For most of my life, I haven’t been very good at listening to my body. It’s not like I ignored it on purpose; it was more that I didn’t understand the language it was using. My body has been calling out, but I haven’t...
by Diane Lloyd | Apr 9, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
The Efforting Trap Yesterday at the end of a yoga class the instructor shared a sentence that made me pause. “We’ve got one body. We’ve got one life. Let’s enjoy it.” This simple but profound reminder made me reflect on what’s happening...
by Diane Lloyd | Mar 31, 2025 | Leadership, Learning Labs
What your people need most: Hope and Clarity As I guided our Inspiring Midlife Leadership cohort through another transformative session last week, I was struck by the profound wisdom emerging from these remarkable women. In a world that often feels increasingly...
by Diane Lloyd | Feb 4, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
I’m Done Performing for Patriarchy I’m enjoying midlife and up until recently, I couldn’t really pinpoint why. I feel powerful, creative; my relationship with myself and my intuition has never been stronger. In a word, I feel free. But free from what? It’s a question...
by Diane Lloyd | Jan 8, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
Midlife is often portrayed in our culture as a time of decline, a season where growth slows, and possibilities narrow. I caught myself buying into this narrative as my 57th birthday approached in early January. I was feeling so much resistance to this age because I...
by Diane Lloyd | Nov 19, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership
As I’ve written before in this space, on June 28, 2024, Brené Brown made an important announcement to the Dare to Lead™ facilitator community that she had sold the training rates for the program to the digital coaching company, BetterUp. (You can read my...
