What I want for you my dear, strong woman, is for you to connect with and tap into your true nature. I want you to reveal the power that already exists inside of you.

But this isn’t something I can just tell you how to do. You have to learn it yourself. It’s time to click your heels together and say: “There’s no place like home.”

I want to write from her voice. The calm, grounded, purposeful version of myself.

And I think her voice sounds just like this. Not like a self-help book. Not like a motivational speaker. Not nonchalant. Powerful. Rooted. Still. Wise.

The invitation said, "wear something fabulous." I was so excited. I started to think of all the things that I might possibly wear…and then I looked in my closet.

There was nothing fabulous in there. It was full of black and gray and navy, and jeans and t-shirts and hoodies. Nothing fabulous in sight.

The disease of "busyness" is pandemic. For women especially, "having it all" can begin to feel like a crushing burden.

We are all running around trying be super human and do everything, and it is exhausting. The book How Women Rise offers an alternative course.

FEAR seems to be the loudest of my inner voices. I know it exists for a very good reason — to keep me safe and alive, but I have been letting it steer the conversation for far too long.