I Didn’t Want Anyone to Die Alone

By Sarah Hines
A few decades ago, someone I knew was dying of AIDS.

His family had disowned him. AIDS was still something people feared, something people didn’t understand, and I couldn’t sit with the idea that someone we loved could be left to die alone.

So, in my early 20s, I started volunteering in home hospice.

I sat at bedsides.
I cleaned toilets.
I made meals and did grocery shopping for people who couldn’t do it themselves.

I was there in the quietest, most vulnerable moments of people’s lives. And it changed me.

The Feeling I Couldn’t Shake – Part 2
How Many of Us Are Carrying This?

BY CYBELE NEGRIS
After I began speaking about my experience, carefully at first, I started to hear something unexpected. Recognition.

Not of the award, but of the feeling.

Women would come up to me after events, or reach out quietly in conversations, and share their own versions of it. Different roles. Different stages of life. Different paths entirely.

But the same underlying question:
What if they find out I’m not as capable as they think I am?

Where Strategy Actually Happens

BY IDALIN McKENZIE

We spend a lot of time talking about strategy. Who sets it. How it’s defined. Where it’s going.

But in my experience, strategy doesn’t succeed or fail at the executive table. It succeeds or fails on the frontline.

Where the Work Becomes Real

Frontline leaders are where the work actually happens.

They are the ones translating ideas into action. Taking something high-level and making it real, in the day-to-day decisions that shape how an organization operates.

They are the bridge between what’s intended and what’s experienced. And I’ve seen how much depends on that.

What People Stay For

One of the most immediate impacts of frontline leadership shows up in how people feel at work. Whether they stay. Whether they grow. And whether they feel connected to what they’re doing.

I’ve seen the difference it makes when people feel supported. When they know their voice matters and their contributions are recognized. When there’s a sense of trust within the team.

Those things aren’t abstract. They’re built or not built every day.

Seven Embryos Changed Everything. Just Not the Way I Planned.

BY SHERRI STEVENS
There was never a question in my mind.

I would get married. We would buy a house. And we would have children. Four of them, to be exact. Two girls and two boys. What my mother used to call a “millionaire’s family.”

I’d be close and connected with them, just as my mother and I were close and connected. A bond that passed from generation to generation.

And in many ways, life followed the plan. I walked down the aisle at 26. We got the keys to our first house together. We started trying to have a family.

But the part that felt the most certain… never happened.