Author: Beth Wonson
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Start Tipping the World Toward Peace
Every thought is a choice between peace and harm. Learn the simple visualizing trick, pause, rewind, delete, that helps replace anger and revenge with calm, and discover why your energy matters.
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Making Your Mark
A blank page holds every possibility — and that is exactly why so many ideas never see the light of day. After 67 years of creating, I know the hardest part is making the first mark. Here is how I learned to start anyway.
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How Metaphors Can Quietly Exclude Your Audience
Sports metaphors are the cargo shorts of business communication — comfortable for the person using them, but not necessarily for everyone else in the room. When your language signals to a third of your audience that you’re an outsider here, it’s time to pay attention.
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Hiring a Racehorse When a Workhorse Will do
AI is pushing skilled corporate professionals toward nonprofit work, but hiring them without intentional onboarding can backfire fast. Meet Lorraine, whose corporate instincts collided with nonprofit culture in her first weeks on the job, and learn what both sides need to know before making the leap.
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Finding Your Path to Living Life Well
Most of us are raised to follow a predictable script. But some of the most interesting people I’ve ever met haven’t followed it at all. A friend’s unexpected leap onto the Peace Boat is a reminder: just because a path is easy to explain doesn’t make it the right one for you.
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What Does It Look Like to Actually Thrive Now?
What does it actually look like to thrive as a leader — not when things get easier, but right now? One client’s decade-long journey through crisis, change, and challenge holds the answer. It comes down to one unglamorous, deeply important investment.
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Trust Is Built Every Day — Here’s How to Do It
Trust isn’t something you earn once and carry forever. Every new relationship requires you to establish it again. That can feel unfair — but it’s less about effort than intention. Here are five things you can do every day to become the kind of leader people trust.
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Maybe You’re Not Defensive
Have you ever been told you’re being defensive? That gap between how we experience ourselves and how others experience us is exactly where defensiveness lives. It isn’t a character flaw — it’s a learned behavior that was probably necessary at some point in your life.
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The First Step to Respecting Someone’s Boundaries
When someone sets a clear boundary, our instinct is often to push back or wait them out. But true respect isn’t about tolerating someone’s choice — it starts with doing your own emotional work. Get curious about what’s yours, and you create space for deeper connection and real freedom.
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Loosen the Leash, Beth
My dog trainer told me I was holding the leash too tight. It stopped me — because I already knew he was right. When there’s constant tension, you only teach resistance. The same is true in leadership and in life. Where are you holding on too tight, and is it actually getting you the outcome…