Ensō mindset

Ensō mindset By leading with heart, my mission is to explore the complexities of emotional intelligence and shed light on individual strength and power.

I intend to guide your exploration by providing empowering personal and professional progress strategies.

“Care but don’t Carry” really resonated on Saturday.Before we can learn, we have to unlearn.Nobody told me unlearning wo...
05/05/2026

“Care but don’t Carry” really resonated on Saturday.

Before we can learn, we have to unlearn.

Nobody told me unlearning would be harder than learning. That it was its own skill.

When I wrote Ensō, A Tree Still Grows, I thought I was writing about resilience. I was unlearning forty years of what I thought I was supposed to do.

After Saturday’s keynote, a journalist asked me what “care, but don’t carry” looks like in real, everyday leadership. The question landed harder than my talk had. .sharelle

Check out the full article https://www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/she-leads-georgian-bay-midland-women-empowerment-event-12235315

Grateful for a room full of incredible women who embraced Shoshin — the beginner’s mind Together, we challenged what we...
05/03/2026

Grateful for a room full of incredible women who embraced Shoshin — the beginner’s mind

Together, we challenged what we think we know about leadership, released the pressure of having all the answers, and opened ourselves to growth, curiosity, and deeper connection.

When women lead with openness, humility, and courage, we don’t just transform ourselves — we reframe how leadership can look, feel, and impact the world.

Thank you for showing up, leaning in, and reminding me that powerful leadership begins the moment we are willing to learn again.

05/02/2026

Grateful beyond words for the opportunity to stand in a room with 200 incredible women who are leading, shaping, and strengthening our communities every single day. has a beautiful mission.

To every woman who showed up with passion, purpose, and presence—thank you for the work you do and the example you set.

To the volunteers, sponsors, and facilitators who made this experience possible—your dedication, generosity, and heart created something truly powerful.

When women are empowered, communities transform. Honoured to have shared this space with such extraordinary leaders.

I got this! I love it when timing just feels right. I am on my way to pitch as one of the five finalist for the NVPC pi...
04/22/2026

I got this! I love it when timing just feels right. I am on my way to pitch as one of the five finalist for the NVPC pitch competition at in Hamilton tonight. Wish me luck! Thank you for the motivational smoothie!

A feeling without a word doesn’t disappear. It moves into the body.If you’ve ever said “I don’t know how to describe wha...
04/20/2026

A feeling without a word doesn’t disappear. It moves into the body.

If you’ve ever said “I don’t know how to describe what I’m feeling,” you’re not inarticulate. The language is missing.

Our modern English lost words we used to have. There’s an old English word, mōd. Body, spirit, soul in one breath. Close cousin to the Japanese Kokoro. We had it once. Somewhere along the way we let it go.
And when the word goes missing, the feeling doesn’t. It moves into the shoulders. The sleep. The breath. The slow leak of energy you can’t quite name.

If you’ve been leading through a gap you can’t name, you’re not alone in it, and you’re not broken for feeling it. You’re fluent in a language that stopped carrying what you needed to say.

The next Reframe Workshop is built for exactly that gap. Unlearning the old ways of growth. Relearning what actually fits the leader you are now.

Our special guest will be there to help you rewire the breath, so your body can hold what you’re building.

Ensō, A Tree Still Grows is the book I wrote for anyone standing in that gap without a map.

If the nerdy linguistics thread is what pulled you in, stay. More of that is coming.

Join us tomorrow go to the Link in Bio

The samurai didn’t train to become fearless. They trained to stay present while afraid.The Zen monk didn’t sit to escape...
04/16/2026

The samurai didn’t train to become fearless. They trained to stay present while afraid.

The Zen monk didn’t sit to escape the noise. He sat so the noise couldn’t move him.

That’s the discipline. Not the absence of pressure. The ability to recenter inside it.

Ego dissolution isn’t a concept. It’s a practice.

You dissolve the part that needs the environment to cooperate before you can function.

And breath is where it starts. Not as a coping tool. As a recalibration system. Every tradition that built unshakeable people built it through the body first.

That’s what we’re doing Tuesday.

Rewire the nervous system. Reframe the story. Go further by getting quieter first.

April 21 | Sandbox Centre, Barrie

Join Brian Coones and me.

Link in Bio.

Hi. I’m Anette.I was a competitive swimmer. Then volleyball. Then 13 years of keelboat racing on the bow.I’m also a midd...
04/14/2026

Hi. I’m Anette.

I was a competitive swimmer. Then volleyball. Then 13 years of keelboat racing on the bow.

I’m also a middle child. Canadian and Japanese. Two identities that didn’t always know how to sit in the same room together.

So I did what made sense. I performed. If I was good enough, fast enough, useful enough. I belonged. I didn’t question it.

Nobody taught me how to ground my internal world first. So I reached outward for everything. I didn’t even know I had an internal world.

It just became how I moved through the world.
My whole life was built around performance. Training harder. Going faster. Pushing through. I was really good at it.

And then I wasn’t.

Not because I stopped working hard. Because I never stopped. Not once. Not for long enough to actually matter.

The pause felt like losing. Like if I stopped moving something would catch up with me. I think a lot of high performers know exactly what I mean.

What changed everything for me wasn’t another strategy or another program. It was permission.

Permission to stop. To feel what was actually happening in my body instead of overriding it. To treat the stillness as part of the training and not the opposite of it.

Turns out everything I needed to know about that I already had. In my Japanese heritage. In my mother’s tea ceremony. In a lineage that had always understood that presence is not the absence of performance. It is the foundation of it.

That’s what I build now. That’s what I teach.

You don’t have to choose between being a high performer and being a human being. That’s the whole thing.

If that lands for you. I’m glad you’re here.

This Tuesday I’m in a room with people who are ready to feel what this actually means in their body. If you’re curious what that looks like. Details in bio.

High performers don’t burn out from working too hard.They burn out from carrying a nervous system that never got the cha...
04/13/2026

High performers don’t burn out from working too hard.

They burn out from carrying a nervous system that never got the chance to land.

We train our minds. We optimize our schedules. We push through.

And somewhere in the middle of all that doing, we lose the thread back to ourselves.

On April 21, I’m sitting down with at Sandbox Centre in Barrie, and we’re going to talk about what it actually takes to reframe from the inside out. Not mindset hacks. Not willpower.

The real thing: your body, your breath, your baseline.
If you’ve been running on fumes and calling it discipline, this one’s for you.

Link in bio to grab your spot.

04/11/2026

💡 In this episode of Neuroscience of Coaching, I sit down with Dr. Irena O’Brien to talk about why insight alone doesn’t create lasting change. We explore how rhythm, presence, and intentional practice shape real transformation.
Here are 3 key takeaways from our conversation:
🔸 The brain rewires through repeated experience—not just understanding
🔸 Sustainable performance depends on cycles of energy, not constant output
🔸 Awareness without practice doesn’t lead to lasting change
If you’ve ever felt stuck despite knowing what to do, this conversation offers a new lens.
🎧 Listen now wherever you listen to podcasts. .danny

https://share.transistor.fm/s/1edb076b

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Honoured to be the Keynote for IWD 2026 For . Thank you Karen for the kind words.🙏 Feeling grateful for these opportunit...
04/08/2026

Honoured to be the Keynote for IWD 2026 For . Thank you Karen for the kind words.
🙏
Feeling grateful for these opportunities.

Same spot. 37 years apart.Einstein said the measure of intelligence is the ability to change. The Japanese have a word f...
04/04/2026

Same spot. 37 years apart.

Einstein said the measure of intelligence is the ability to change. The Japanese have a word for it: 改善 kaizen. Small, continuous improvement. Every day, a little better than the day before.

Same ground. New rings. Root then rise. 🌱

Ensō, A Tree Still Grows — available now. Link in Bio.

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