You Are Enough. Those three words frustrate me. I don’t always believe in them. For some of us, the goal of perfection has been a burden for quite some time. Some of us jokin[...]

One of the highlights of 2014 for me was seeing the many narratives that surfaced during #SAFailsForward conversation in June. Failure has so many negative connotations and yet is [...]

I hate to fail. Hate it. I know there is a lesson in a lesson and a lesson in that lesson and so on, but come on. Failing is indeed a part of life, and it certainly balances out ou[...]

My boss took me to lunch on the first day of my graduate assistantship at Penn State Career Services and said, “We’ve completely ended the diversity program we’ve[...]

your tornado may cause you fear my tornado is cause for dreaming more my tornado is not your tornado is not your tornado   -from Tornado, a poem by Gene Pfeiffer   The “#[...]

There are moments when you mess up in your career, and you realize it right away.  You know what I mean – you accidentally hit “reply all” on a snarky response (not good), you say [...]

We are all a bit hesitant to talk publicly about our failures. It is hard. It dredges up old memories that might not be so pleasant. In a world that celebrates achievement and succ[...]

The failures that haunt me are the ones that no one knows about. They’re the times I failed to ask for help, to speak up, or to take a risk. I call this failing by omission. Recogn[...]

As many people have pointed out in the #SAFailsForward initiative, we need to reframe our concept of failure. It’s OK to fail. Truly. It’s through failing that we learn[...]

When I entered into my undergraduate career in 2005 I was told that a degree in education would never fail me as teaching was not a dying field. Teachers would always be needed bec[...]