If you are always authentic, you bring emotional chaos to the team. When we show up stressed or anxious, the mirror neurons in our colleagues' brains pick up on that, and then they feel that way too. Learn why self-translation is the smarter alternative to unfiltered authenticity.

The first day I became a leader, people stopped gathering around me. What I didn’t know then was that leadership isolation activates the same brain regions as physical pain.

I found myself getting wrapped up in the feelings of loss and sadness, and I was struggling to determine how to get back to the job we are paid to do. Work is a place where they can escape the second-by-second thoughts about the loss they are experiencing.