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You’re Not Lazy—You’re Just Misaligned: The Truth About Action, Energy, and Ease
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You’re Not Lazy—You’re Just Misaligned: The Truth About Action, Energy, and Ease Sep 14, 2025

If you’ve been pushing, planning, and performing your way toward your next goal—and still feel stuck, exhausted, or unclear—it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.

It’s because you’re doing it out of alignment.

This week, we’re calling out the hustle-for-hustle’s-sake loop and giving you the scien...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Feel First, Lead Fast: The Leadership Shift No One Talks About
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Feel First, Lead Fast: The Leadership Shift No One Talks About business communication and influence habits mindset psychology successful entrepreneurs Sep 07, 2025

Let’s get real: You didn’t start a business or step into leadership to live for the weekend, count down to retirement, or hustle yourself into exhaustion. But somehow, that’s exactly where so many high-performers end up—trapped in the cycle of “just push harder.”

This week, we’re cracking that illu...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Burn On, Not Out: Why Slowing Down, Aligning Energy, and Feeling First Are Your Real Power Plays
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Burn On, Not Out: Why Slowing Down, Aligning Energy, and Feeling First Are Your Real Power Plays business communication and influence habits human design psychology Aug 31, 2025

Feeling like your wildfire of ambition is fizzling—or burning everything else—just to stay lit? You’re not broken. You’re just stuck in forced momentum. Let’s pivot from burnout to brilliance.

Why Slowing Down Is the Fastest Way to Scale

Here’s the truth nobody’s talking about: doing less doesn’t ...

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Brooke M. Dukes
When Perfection Becomes the Problem: The Silent Saboteur of Leadership
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When Perfection Becomes the Problem: The Silent Saboteur of Leadership Aug 24, 2025

You know that voice in your head that whispers, "It has to be perfect before you start?" Yeah, that voice isn’t helping you lead. It’s helping you hide.

Welcome to the real conversation on perfectionism—the one where we call it what it is: self-sabotage wrapped in productivity's clothing. This week...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Fear, Flow, and Why the Grind Isn’t the Goal
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Fear, Flow, and Why the Grind Isn’t the Goal business communication and influence leadership mindset psychology successful entrepreneurs Aug 17, 2025

Fear, Flow, and Why the Grind Isn’t the Goal

Fear isn’t always the villain in the corner twirling its mustache—it’s more like that overly cautious friend who thinks every new restaurant will give them food poisoning. Its job? Keep things the same. Your brain equates sameness with safety, even if th...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Culture, Fun, and Time: The Three Things Your Team Actually Cares About
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Culture, Fun, and Time: The Three Things Your Team Actually Cares About Aug 10, 2025

Culture, Fun, and Time: The Three Things Your Team Actually Cares About

You’ve heard it before: Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Cute quote, but here’s the kicker—culture is also what decides whether your best people stay, leave, or quietly disengage while scrolling job boards on company Wi-Fi....

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Brooke M. Dukes
Problems Aren’t Problems (Until We Call Them That)
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Problems Aren’t Problems (Until We Call Them That) communication and influence habits mindset psychology Aug 02, 2025

You know those days where everything feels like a problem? The client email, the traffic, your third cup of coffee not working? Here’s the reframe: it’s not a problem. It’s a signal.

When you strip away the drama, a “problem” is just an experience you labeled. That label? Optional. The signal? Valu...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Motivation Isn't the Problem, Your Belief Is
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Motivation Isn't the Problem, Your Belief Is Jul 26, 2025

Performance isn’t just about behavior. It’s about belief.
 

You can track KPIs, build dashboards, and add another motivational quote to your Slack channel, but if your team doesn’t believe—in you, in the mission, in themselves—nothing sticks.

This week, we’re ripping the cover off the myths around ...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Stop Dimming Your Light, Start Choosing Your Life
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Stop Dimming Your Light, Start Choosing Your Life Jul 19, 2025

 

If you’re sick of faking alignment and calling it strategy, this week’s blog is for you. If you’ve ever found yourself ranting about what you don’t want but can’t quite articulate what you do, congratulations—you’re normal. And, well… stuck.

This week we’re diving into three truths that will eit...

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Brooke M. Dukes
If Your Body Had a Mic, It Would Be Screaming
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If Your Body Had a Mic, It Would Be Screaming Jul 13, 2025

Let’s not pretend your neck pain is just from bad posture. Or that the quiet panic in your chest is from too much caffeine. This week, we’re pulling back the curtain on your inner boardroom—where your nervous system is the CEO, your self-talk is the head of HR, and your calendar is quietly gaslighti...

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Brooke M. Dukes
When Your Brain Lies, Your Habits Drive, and You Mistake Projection for Perception
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When Your Brain Lies, Your Habits Drive, and You Mistake Projection for Perception Jul 05, 2025

Welcome back to the no-BS corner of your leadership journey, where we stop pretending busy is productive and start looking at what’s actually going on under the hood. This week we’re peeling back the psychological layers to reveal three uncomfortable truths that will radically improve your decisions...

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Brooke M. Dukes
Stop Forcing It: Flow, Fun, and the Freedom to Change Your Mind
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Stop Forcing It: Flow, Fun, and the Freedom to Change Your Mind Jun 28, 2025

Let’s get one thing clear: Control is not the flex you think it is.

The real power move? Letting go. Not in the "burn-it-all-down" way (tempting, we know), but in the small, daily decisions to stop forcing outcomes and start trusting yourself.

This week, we're unpacking what happens when you stop ...

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