by Lori Ann King | Feb 24, 2026 | Cycling
Your Power Serves the World, So Use It “Your playing small does not serve the world.” – Marianne Williamson It took me decades to really understand that line. In high school, I started running to stay in shape for soccer. My best friend would join me, and without...
by Lori Ann King | Feb 19, 2026 | Life Lessons
Where Might the Water Be Getting Warm for You? (Burnout warning signs) Have you heard the boiling frog metaphor? If you drop a frog into boiling water, it jumps out immediately. But if you place it in cool water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog stays, adapting as...
by Lori Ann King | Feb 9, 2026 | Leadership and Culture
Many of us have lived under a particular kind of leadership hierarchy. One rooted more in fear than in trust. It’s the kind where leadership exists at a distance. Senior leaders sit high above, access is limited, and authority flows downward through control. Decisions...
by Lori Ann King | Feb 4, 2026 | Life Lessons
Some pauses take longer than we planned. Some transitions ask us to linger. January invited me into pause and reflection, and I accepted. What I didn’t expect was that February would ask the same of me. I returned from a week in Florida late on a Wednesday night....
by Lori Ann King | Jan 29, 2026 | Cycling
This year, I keep coming back to the same three words. Intention. Alignment. Authenticity. Not as aspirational ideas. As daily practices. We don’t stumble into alignment. We choose it. Again and again. Sometimes those choices are quiet and private. Sometimes they are...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 19, 2026 | Life Lessons
Over the years, I’ve learned that difficult conversations are unavoidable, whether in leadership, families, or life. What is avoidable is the damage they cause when we choose defensiveness over listening, or comfort over courage. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 13, 2026 | Mindset
For many years, I chose a word for the season I was in. Not a resolution. Not a goal. A companion word. Something to return to when life got loud or blurry. In my teens, I craved independence. In my twenties, I longed for strength. In my thirties, I chased freedom. In...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 7, 2026 | Self-Care
Last year, I finally admitted something: I was exhausted not because I was working too hard, but because I was constantly paddling upstream. I had knowledge and skills. I cared. I was doing what I thought I should be doing. But something was off. I was forcing...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 2, 2026 | Cycling
Redefining Victory After Surgery, Change, and Recovery We are very good at tending to physical wounds. We ice. We stretch. We submit to physical therapy. We endure discomfort because we believe in healing. Somewhere along the way, many of us also find ourselves...
by Lori Ann King | Dec 24, 2025 | Holidays
I pulled off the surprise of the decade, but not without a little grit along the way. Last Wednesday, my mum turned 80. On Saturday, my sister celebrated her birthday. Somewhere between those two milestones, I boarded a plane from Las Cruces to Central New York,...
by Lori Ann King | Dec 2, 2025 | Self-Care
I was looking back over some pages in my journal and came across this one from October. Life is often both a juggling and balancing act. I’m someone who pushes myself right up to the edge, and then life happens and pushes me over. As we begin the slow descent into...
by Lori Ann King | Nov 26, 2025 | Life Lessons
A few weeks ago, I wrote about boundaries and the inner hub and outer rim: how our energy, time, and emotional bandwidth shift depending on what life demands of us. In a recent presentation, I revisited this concept: the inner hub as our sacred core, and the outer...
