My name is Celeste Stewart and I am the eldest daughter of Douglas and Cynthia Richards. Today I have the absolute privilege of doing the tribute of Roy Mark Cox. Thank you to everyone who agreed to grant me this opportunity. I want to say...
Right now, at this very point in my life, I’m juggling so many things. There are a few balls in the air and they’re big ones. Like moving into a home, finding a different school for my boys, the future of my business, completing my thesis etc....
Here’s to 44. I’m open to the lessons it’s about to teach me. Happy birthday to me. ...
Today, look in the mirror and love the person staring back at you. The person who is tired and depleted. The broken person. Love yourself in that state. And know that it’s ok to not to be ok. Give yourself that permission right now....
If you read this post and ‘don’t get it’ then please start to educate yourself on the dynamics of White privilege. ...
It is said that learning happens between the stages of conscious incompetence and conscious competence. This is also where we require the highest levels of resilience as learners because all we want to do, is revert back to the stuff that makes us comfortable. Yet...
The inner mentor is your inner wise woman. She is your light, wisdom, future-self, anchor, etc. And we all have an inner mentor. But we must make a concerted effort to get to know her, learn to trust her and invite her to our challenges,...
Jealousy is a normal emotion and we all experience it more often than we’d probably like to admit. Jealousy can teach us something if we take the time to work through the initial response....
Mistakes are BEAUTIFUL. As Eduardo Briceno so beautifully states in his TEDTalk, mistakes show that we are taking the risks necessary for learning....
Representation matters and as a storyteller, I’m very deliberate about the narrative I create with others. Someone said this recently – “you can’t change the story if you don’t change the storyteller”. Boom! Drop the mic right there. I’m changing the view of the storyteller...