by Lori Ann King | Apr 1, 2026 | Life Lessons
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about depth over reach and impact over numbers. It’s easy to get caught up in numbers. Followers. Attendance. Growth curves. Even in my own small corner, I notice it. My coffee talks at work usually gather between 19 and 25 people. This...
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 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 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 | 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...
by Lori Ann King | Oct 20, 2025 | Life Lessons
I was working register during the busy dinner hour. The lines at Burger King were five across and five deep, filled with families and small, hungry children. It was my first job, and I was 16 years old. In front of me stood an angry, belligerent, and possibly drunk...
