When Being Strong Becomes The Expectation
People trust you. They rely on you. They know you can handle complicated moments without falling apart. You become the steady one, the capable one,
June 10, 2026
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People trust you. They rely on you. They know you can handle complicated moments without falling apart. You become the steady one, the capable one,
She currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of System Effectiveness at Cook Children’s Healthcare System (CCHCS) in Fort Worth, TX and is tasked with
There is a particular kind of loneliness that doesn’t look like loneliness from the outside.
It looks like competence.
It looks like being prepared, responsive,
She was the flexible one, the reliable one, the one who could step into difficult situations without creating more tension around them.
If something needed
For a long time, leadership was viewed as something deeply individual. You worked hard. You proved yourself. You climbed. And if you succeeded, the story
For a long time, leadership was described as a climb.
You worked your way up. You proved yourself. You took on more responsibility, more visibility,
She co-founded Imagine Pediatrics, a value-based care company that serves nearly 100,000 children on Medicaid. She sits on advisory boards for multiple early-stage digital health
Some of it is exciting. Some of it is overwhelming. And some of it has created a familiar question for women leaders: Are we keeping
For a long time, the conversation about women in leadership centered on presence…how many women are in the room, how many at the table and/or
There’s another shift happening for women in leadership…and it’s showing up in a very different way.
More women are beginning to take their physical strength
There’s a moment that many leaders have quietly experienced, even if they’ve never said it out loud.
It’s not dramatic and it doesn’t happen all
For a long time, value in the workplace was something many people believed would eventually be recognized if they simply did the work well enough.