This week we are talking about breaking through our own limitations in order to be in our leadership and create more positive impact in the world. By seeing through old stories and patterns, we can have access to our essential self more often. We touch on:
-limiting vs empowering beliefs
-the importance of emotions in leadership
-getting conscious of our true beliefs
-recovering to and trusting our inner leader

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is such an inspiration and a model of grace and strength in leadership. We honour her here in a poem by Maya Angelou, with thanks to Perri Mathews for sharing.

When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.