As an employer, it's important that we celebrate our people. As a teammate, it's important that we celebrate those around us. As an employee, it's important to be in a place where you are celebrated. Here's how that can happen - as an employer, team member, and employee. And here are some thoughts if you aren't in an environment where celebrating people doesn't happen.

Great leaders understand a simple truth: your excellence is on you. Leadership isn't defined by a title, a position, or the authority you hold. It's defined by the standard you choose to uphold every day. You can't always control circumstances, resources, or outcomes. But you can control your attitude, your effort, your preparation, and your commitment to growth. The most effective leaders don't wait for accountability—they embrace it. They don't ask others to do what they ar

I never knew her burden…and I never asked… For the past five and a half years, my son and I have spent an hour at physical therapy, five days a week, as he has battled to learn how to walk again after being shot and paralyzed. Luckily, his physical therapist also happens to be one of my best friends and a second mom to our son. I have always thought that God sent her for a huge purpose long before we ever knew. Physical therapy is extremely hard work but the connection