A year ago, I sent Wake-Up Calls out into the world without knowing what would come of it. Writing that book meant putting words to a lifetime of lessons I’d learned the hard way, the kind that come from failing, getting back up, and failing again a little better each
Every day in our profession, you give. You give families your compassion, your steadiness, and your full attention in the hardest moments of their lives, and you give your team
My suitcase is open on the bed, my lists keep multiplying, and my heart is already on Charleston, South Carolina. In just a couple of days, women from every corner
Every day in our profession, you give. You give families your compassion, your steadiness, and your full attention in the hardest moments of their lives, and you give your team your patience and often your nights and weekends too. This World Mental Health Day, on October 10, I want to ask you a question that […]
My suitcase is open on the bed, my lists keep multiplying, and my heart is already on Charleston, South Carolina. In just a couple of days, women from every corner of our profession will gather at Wild Dunes for Funeral Women Lead’s second annual Unleashed Leadership and Wellness Summit, and I can hardly sit still […]
Grandparents Day always catches me somewhere in the middle of a full life, and every year it stops me anyway. I want to tell you about mine, because the lessons they left me are still showing up in how I lead and how I hope you’ll lead too. I had two very different sets of […]
Wake-Up Calls just received one of the highest honors a book can earn. The 2026 NYC Big Book Award named it a Distinguished Favorite in Death & Dying, standing alongside some of the most meaningful voices writing about this profession today. I am deeply honored, and I want to be honest about something. The award […]
Dolly Parton built an empire out of a childhood that had nothing to spare, and she never once let anyone forget where she came from. That’s the part of her story I keep coming back to, especially today. She grew up poor in the Smoky Mountains, one of 12 children, and she turned that beginning […]
Years ago, a coach at a leadership retreat handed me a blank piece of paper and asked me to draw my life. Every high year climbing up, every hard year dropping low, one long line from where I started to where I stood that day. I thought I would sail through it. Present my line, […]
