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Because sometimes the clearest insight comes wrapped in a little sarcasm and an unexpected truth. URfriendinHR pairs bite-sized workplace truths with reflection and advice drawn from the real world—the messy, meeting-filled, make-it-up-as-you-go one we actually live in. You’ll get a moment of wit, a moment of wisdom (I hope), and maybe a new way to think about how we show up and lead at work. Because growth doesn’t require perfection. Just perspective.
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Work is an RPG
Last night my client’s coaching session turned quickly on a sentence I suspect many adults carry around like a default […]
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Premature Disappointment
“I don’t let myself get too excited.”A client said that with the calm confidence of someone announcing a retirement contribution. […]
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Growth can be Messy
“I’m annoyed,” she said.“Excellent,” I replied. “That usually means we found something useful.”“No, I’m annoyed at myself.”“Even better. A favorite […]
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Liminal Space
I was coaching a client recently, and she said something I have not been able to stop thinking about: “Nothing […]
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Assigning Meaning
After what feels like my hundredth coaching conversation about this exact thing, I can report that some of the most […]
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Clue – Workplace Edition
Last night in a coaching session a client described a meeting that bothered them all day. Nothing dramatic had happened; […]
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Desire as a KPI
The weirdest workplace KPI is desire. You can’t put it in a dashboard, but you can feel it in your […]
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Professional Intervention?
He shows up five minutes early again, which is either personal growth or a giant red flag in a blazer. […]
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Not Enough, Don’t Lose It, and Must Control Everything
Breaking news: it’s not your job that’s exhausting you. It’s the three unhinged roommates living rent-free in your head: Not […]
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When the Magnet Bites Back
After I posted about the “moth” client, my DMs lit up like fireflies. Did he ever tell her how he […]
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The View from the Pedestal
You ever meet someone and immediately start casting them in the lead role of your personal workplace movie? The boss […]
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Effective Coaching is just Good Chemistry
Ever leave a conversation feeling taller? Like your brain took a vitamin it didn’t know it needed? That’s not an […]
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A Coaching “Moment”
Sometimes the most meaningful coaching doesn’t happen in a session. It happens in the quiet after—that moment when the brain […]
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Projection (The moth returns)
A client (the moth, if you remember my prior post) sat across from me, his voice steady at first. Thank […]
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Workplace Magnetism
Coaching clients are coming in SPICY this week. Yesterday one brought this to our session: “Ever met someone at work […]
CORPORATE TAROT
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Corporate Tarot: THE PERMISSION SLIP 🔮
UPRIGHT: Realizing that half your professional limitations were printed by people who are no longer in the building. Thank you […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Museum of Implication🔮
UPRIGHT: Realizing you assigned far too much meaning to something that was, at best, lightly suggestive.REVERSED: Continuing to treat an […]
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Corporate Tarot: TEMPERANCE 🔮
UPRIGHT: The disciplined pause between stimulus and story.REVERSED: Letting one vague message become the board chair of your entire nervous […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Applause 🔮
This card appears when you are being asked to let go of one of the least glamorous barriers to senior […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Rhythm Reboot 🔮
Some days, the path back to sanity begins with a bass line and a temporary loss of dignity. Upright, this […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: XI — The Appetite 🔮
We have all known this person. At work, they need one more pass, one more reminder, or another soft-landing while […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Bottle
Today’s card is for anyone whose brain has selected one project, one outcome, one person, or one elegant professional dream […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Inbox Tide 🔮
Theme: You clear it, it refills, you question reality.Today’s card is for the person who is somehow handling seventeen things […]
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CORPORATE TAROT Friday the 13th P2 — The Devil 🔮
Last night I dreamt that an ex-boss slithered up to my table at an event, all sunshine and conference teeth, […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Loop 🔮
This week’s corporate tarot card pull is The Loop. A stubborn little card with no sparkle or mystery, just the […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: DEATH (The Gentle Ending) 🔮
Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. It’s one of those dates that changes the acoustics in my body. […]
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CORPORATE TAROT Friday the 13th: THE FOOL (Fog Feedback Edition) 🔮
Today’s card is for anyone who has sat through feedback that was technically about your work… but arrived as a […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Scope Shapeshifter 🔮
It’s Friday again, and I now have this habit locked in… time for another Corporate Tarot Pull. This week’s card??? […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Invincible Summer 🔮
The card you pull when you’re doing everything “right”… and somehow your reward is more work and a slow-moving personality […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Draft 🔮
Time for another Friday corporate Tarot Pull. Today’s card: THE DRAFT… The card you pull when your honesty is fully […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Gameboard 🔮
It’s Friday again, so apparently, we’re doing another Corporate Tarot Pull. Two weeks in a row. Yes, I’m aware this […]
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CORPORATE TAROT: The Cave 🔮
In honor of us making it to another Friday, I pulled a Corporate Tarot card for our collective. One card. […]
EVERYTHING (including SNAKs!)
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Act II
A hospice nurse asked me if my mother had always been a stoic. I snort-laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe […]
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Real World Re-Entry
There’s no Advil for this hangover. Not the too much wine-at-dinner kind, but the return-from-Conference World haze. The ride home […]
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Conference Life
I learned in my twenties never to trust a Texas man without a cowboy hat. So naturally last night at […]
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Reruns
We’re all guilty of it—telling ourselves reruns of stories that should’ve been canceled after season one. I’ll mess it up. […]
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Professional Yearning
Fall sneaks in like a moody novel; shorter days, colder nights, the perfect backdrop for yearning. Not the situationship kind, […]
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Am I a Bulldozer?
Once upon a job interview, the feedback about me was: “Hire this woman, she’s a bulldozer.” Not exactly the compliment […]
