Lead and Be Well

10/13/2026

How many videos of the ocean is too many?? Asking for a friend. 🩵🌊

Final camping trip of 2026 in the books! 🏕️

Favorite place with my favorite people doing my favorite things. 🌊🌲☀️ trips like this help me stay connected to my inner leadership and my leadership in my family which of course fuels how I show up in my professional life…because

10/09/2026

Leading with Creativity & Sacral Chakra vibes 🧡🌊.

We had Book Club tonight for It’s All Connected and it was so powerful to be in discussion with these thoughtful women.

Choose an affirmation that resonates with you from this chapter:

I feel.
I flow.
I am creative.
I create.
I deserve abundance.
I have boundaries that support my energetic flow.
I honor my joy and my desires.
I live and lead with creativity.

10/07/2026

From yesterday’s Substack, “creative collabs”. Also gave lots of love to the women who helped the Connected Leadership Retreat be extra special. ✨ Song Pine and Stone | Gaby Castro 🔔🌲💎 Brookie ~ The Inner Way Oracle Alanna DeSalvo, Holistic Hormone & Gut Health Nutritionist

It’s a joyful read!

Comment SUB and I’ll share it with you!

10/06/2026

How does the wisdom of your body inform, inspire, and relate to leadership? Come find out in this Chakra-inspired Leadership meditation.
This event is part of the digital pre-event series for The Courage to Be Summit (taking place on Oct. 17th, 2026, in Bronxlandia, NYC).

Meet Thought Leader & Author Jess Boots in this online workshop that draws from her book It’s All Connected. And then, get your ticket to the summit to meet her in-person on October 17th!

Get Your Tickets Now:
🧡 Summit ticket holders get Free Access to the pre-event series workshops. Please find your code in your email, or contact [email protected] if you haven’t received it.

🧡If you are not currently a ticket holder, the cost of this event will roll over to your summit ticket if you choose to purchase it during or after the workshop.

About the workshop:
Join Jess Boots for an embodied exploration of Chakra Inspired Leadership, inspired by her book, It’s All Connected: a leadership and healing journal through the chakras. Together, we’ll discuss the 7 major chakras, how they relate to our life and leadership, then experience a guided meditation to balance each energy center.

We’ll have time to reflect, individually and collectively, on how the wisdom that lives in our own bodies can inform, inspire, and relate to leadership out in the world.

Thursday, Oct 8 @ 3 pm EST with Jessica Boots - to get the Registration link: comment COURAGE

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10/01/2026

I’m so eager to dive into our Leadership workshops, resources, and group chats this month within the ✨Intentional Leadership Community✨.

As we start October, this is the perfect time to join us.

Comment LEADER to get more info!

09/30/2026

09/29/2026

Every single retreat I have been on, either as a participant or a facilitator, I either learn or remember something.

This past weekend, I led the Connected Leadership Retreat, perfectly timed with the fall equinox and Aries full moon, and in our final workshop one of the prompts I offered was, “What did we learn and what did we remember as a result of this retreat?”

This distinction - between learning and remembering - is important because sometimes, the takeaway is something we legitimately didn’t know before. It’s a tangible fact, a fresh insight, a new unlock, a belief previously out of reach.

And other times, it’s something we remember. We have simply allowed enough time and space to get back into our bodies, to clear the noise, quiet the to do list, and pause long enough for us to remember. It’s as if we are reconnecting with a part of ourselves - usually our highest self - that we haven’t in a while. It’s one that is able to come through by virtue of being grounded and quiet enough to hear the wisdom that is already there, living just underneath the surface.

It’s my favorite definition of yoga - to “re-member” - to put ourselves back together, to come into wholeness, oneness. Both meaning the individual parts of self, and remembering how connected we are, to all beings everywhere.

This conversation happened in our final workshop - where we explored crown chakra energy and integration. The crown chakra, the sahasrara chakra, is the place of oneness, unity, shared humanity, spirituality.

Knowing.

Remembering.

Feeling connected.

When we pause, either for a few minutes at the beginning of a meeting, or coaching session, or workshop, or we pause for an hour in our day, or we pause for a full day, or we pause for an entire weekend…it’s all valuable. It’s all part of the same practice.

✨Creating enough space to remember. ✨

I have so many insights to share. So many reflections. I’m going to let the wisdom arrive when it’s ready. No rush. I will allow myself enough space to re-member after this beautiful weekend.

09/28/2026

Join me at Arise Yoga Oakland this Saturday, October 3rd for part 2 of this chakra inspired leadership series! If you missed part 1, no worries! I’ll do a little recap of the root and sacral so we feel steady as we move into the solar plexus and heart chakras.

It’s the energy of FIRE 🔥 and AIR 💨.

CONFIDENCE and LOVE.

STRENGTH and VULNERABILITY.

Workshop details:
- Saturday, 10/3 from 4:00-5:15
- use your Arise membership or drop in with a class rate
- bring your mat, a journal, pen, and open heart and mind

09/22/2026

LAST CALL for the Prioritize & Be Well workshop tomorrow !

If you want to join our Prioritize & Be Well workshop tomorrow to get clear about how you want to feel as we move into autumn, this is the perfect time. 🍂✍️

The autumn equinox is this moment of ⚖️ in nature that invites us to explore balance within ourselves.

The workshop, Prioritize and Be Well, is free! It’s a meaningful way to do your quarterly planning in a heart centered and holistic way. It’s fun! It’s a working session so you will leave with these priorities in hand.

I hope you join and we get to see each other tomorrow at 11am PST! I will also send a self-paced replay for those who sign up but can’t join live, so feel free to sign up either way.

https://www.leadandbewell.com/prioritize-and-be-well

09/21/2026

This is a big week, energetically and logistically. So, if I take a page (literally) out of my own book, all signs point towards balancing in the ROOT.

Root chakra
Leading with Purpose
Connecting with the Earth element
Slowing down
Taking deep breaths with super long exhales
Honoring values
Being in community

I’m eager to dive into these themes in multiple ways this week:

❤️ Monday and Friday within the Intentional Leadership Community -> community! Deep breaths! Focus on values and purpose!
❤️ Prioritize & Be Well this Wednesday-> getting clear on what matters most this autumn 🍂 season so we feel grounded in goals and ways of being
❤️ It’s All Connected Book club this Thursday evening. Diving deep into THIS chapter. Chapter 1; Leading with Purpose
❤️ the Connected Leadership Retreat this weekend!!! We will of course start in the trees, grounding our nervous systems, balancing the root chakra so we can do the transformative work that inevitably happens when we gift ourselves time away on retreat. ✨

This would be a beautiful time for you to also dive into the resources of Ch 1: Leading with Purpose in It’s All Connected 📘🩵. (Sold on Amazon in all the formats! Or ask your local bookshop for a copy)

If you want to hop in the Intentional Leadership Community Or Wednesday’s Prioritize & Be Well workshop - comment below or send me a DM! Let’s move through this week grounded, connected and fully resourced. ❤️