Copper Penny Coaching

07/16/2026

Looking forward to sharing and learning at The Health Partnership’s Colorado Rural Peer Conference.

📍July 29th to July 31st @ Hotel Colorado
🎟️ Link to Register in Comments

07/14/2026

Why does change, even good change, feel like a threat?

Because your brain treats it like one.

The amygdala fires. Cortisol floods your system. The rational, planning part of your brain goes partially offline.

So if a new process at work makes your chest tighten, or you feel weirdly defensive about something that isn’t even a big deal… that’s not you being difficult. That’s your nervous system doing exactly what it evolved to do.

You can’t logic your way out of a threat response. You can only calm the threat.

Link in bio for the full breakdown 👇

07/08/2026

Hard conversations don’t get easier by avoiding them.

I’m looking forward to joining this year’s Colorado Rural Peer Conference hosted by The Health Partnership to share practical tools for having the conversations that matter most.

If you’re attending, come say heyyyy!

Register through the link in comments.

06/29/2026

Whoop! Looking forward to presenting at the Rural Peer Group Conference in July!

Tickets are available. Grab yours today.

06/17/2026

📣 **Mental Health First Aid Training – Next Wednesday, June 24**

There is still time to join us for our upcoming **Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training next Wednesday, June 24**

This training will be facilitated by **SPP Board President David Galvan** and **Executive Director Cass Walton**, and is designed to equip participants with practical tools to recognize, respond to, and support individuals experiencing mental health or substance use challenges.

MHFA helps build confidence in having difficult conversations and connecting people to appropriate care—strengthening our community’s ability to support one another when it matters most.

Everyone has a role in prevention. Join us and be part of the solution.

Register Here: www.tinyurl.com/0624AMH

04/27/2026

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04/21/2026

You know you wanna join us. Link in bio to register (ps, it’s free)

03/18/2026

03/16/2026

High performers rarely collapse under pressure.
Instead, we tighten the schedule. Buckle down. Maintain commitments. Protect momentum.

Over the past few months I learned something the hard way - The week I lost my brother, I sat for a major professional exam. And I failed.

Not because I wasn’t prepared. Because I ignored capacity.

Overwhelm narrows perspective. When you’re overloaded, the fastest decision often feels like the strongest one.

Resilience isn’t overriding your limits.It’s about recognizing them.

Where do you see leaders over-function the most?

Read my full article - Link in Bio

03/14/2026

When have you had to recalibrate instead of push through?

Over the past month, life forced me to rethink that definition.

What was supposed to be a momentum season — a professional exam, travel for a large org design program, a speaking event, and a new coaching client — turned into something very different after my brother passed away.

Grief, illness, and a nervous system crash forced a level of recalibration I hadn’t planned for.

One of the hardest parts wasn’t the workload.

It was saying the words high performers struggle with most:

“I can’t right now.”

I wrote a reflection about what that season revealed about leadership, resilience, and capacity.

Resilience isn’t endurance. It’s discernment.

Read the full story (link in bio)