The first time I changed my name I was 4. I went strictly by Katie for a whole year. Insistent upon wearing dresses alone, and that no one call me “Madison” all through Kindergarten. Looking back, maybe it was because my dad and his second wife named their new baby girl Madeline that year...
Read MoreWHAT. DO. YOU. WANT? I was asked this question last year when I flew to Toronto for an intensive with my coach, Tanya Geisler. Among all the type-A goodness I went to uncover, the book proposal I was planning and all the ideas I had for my business, she stopped me dead in my tracks by asking me:“Madison, what do you really want?”
Read MoreI genuinely believe if we cannot cultivate a deep well of joy within ourselves, we will be overtaken by media, by life, by family dramas and disappointments, by obstacles and pain. Can you be with the realities of this world, feeling fully the gaps between where you are now and where you want to be, and still have joy?
Read MoreResponsibility is simply the ability to respond in integrity to my truth. NOT taking on all the responsibility, burdens of the past, and to-do’s of the present. (It’s just your ability to act in accordance to who you really are).
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