Something went wrong on your team. Maybe it's happened before. Maybe it's happened enough times that you've stopped being surprised and started being tired. And now you're sitting with that familiar tension, the one that lives somewhere between your gut and your chest, trying to figure out what t...

by Kris Plachy — Mar 02, 2026 leading teams; managing people; female founders; female entrepreneurs; small business owners; small business mangemenet

The Paradox of Our Time

I’ve spent 30 years teaching people in leadership positions how to build high performing teams. Teams where people take real ownership, hold themselves and each other accountable, and create a healthy ecosystem together. And in all that time, the framework I teach hasn’t changed. I don’t think...

by Kris Plachy — Feb 19, 2026 ceo coach entrepreneuer executive coach for leaders female founder leader leading people life coaching for leaders managing a team managing people relief for entrepreneurs

The Lie Women Women Have Been Taught About Love and Limitation

How patriarchal conditioning teaches women to mistake control for love, and why the cycle keeps repeating By Kris Plachy Years ago, when I was directing a large team, I used to watch young women make choices that baffled me. Smart women. Capable women. Women who could run a meeting or solve a com...

Feb 16, 2026

10 Things You Can Do Today to Find Relief (When You're Leading Through Chaos)

For Women Who Are Tired of Carrying Everyone Else's Fear The past few weeks have been a masterclass in nervous system dysregulation. If you're a woman who leads, you're not just managing your own response to chaos—you're managing everyone else's too. Even when you turn it off, others keep bringin...

by Kris Plachy — Feb 02, 2026 ceo coach entrepreneuer executive coach for leaders female founder leading people life coaching for leaders managing a team managing people relief for entrepreneurs

A World Led by Sages

I dream about a world led by sages. Not celebrities.Not charismatic manipulators.Not people addicted to power. Sages. People whose inner development matches the scale of the responsibility they hold. Sometimes it feels like a memory buried inside our species. Sometimes it feels like grief. Becaus...

by Kris Plachy — Jan 29, 2026 altruism how to be a good leader how to be a sage how to lead human leadership leader leaders managing sage shaman

What If Losing the Client Was the Point?

I got on a call this morning with a client who'd just lost a major account. Not her biggest client, but one she'd been working with for years. One that felt stable, familiar, known. She was shaken. And underneath the professional disappointment, there was something deeper happening—a quiet panic ...

Jan 27, 2026 entrepreneur failure female founder founder leader leadership resilience leading managing resilience small business women

Stop Looking at Your Life; Start Living it

I was on a coaching call with a client this morning—a brilliant, high-achieving founder who, like so many women I work with, has built something extraordinary. She's got the business, the beautiful family, the life that looks perfect from the outside. And yet, there she was, tangled up in her ...

by Kris Plachy — Jan 27, 2026 business coaching ceo ceo coach entrepreneur female founder founder kris plachy lead for women leadership development small business owner women leaders

Nothing Changes Until You Do

Personal change or transformation isn’t sexy I don’t care what new name someone has slapped on their process. It always has been and always will be the same. If you want to get what you’ve never had then you must choose to invest in learning how to mitigate the challenges inherent to who you are...

by Kris Plachy — Jan 27, 2026

What Most Masterminds Get Wrong and Why

When I was pregnant with twins, I asked my family not to call them twins. It sounds irrational, I know. But the word “twins” - with all its baggage about sameness, about being a unit, about losing individuality before they were even born - overwhelmed me. So I reframed it: I was having two chi...

by Kris Plachy — Jan 22, 2026 business manstermind entrepreneur mastermind mastermind for business owners mastermind for female founders mastermind for leaders mastermind for women small business mastermind women mastermind

It's Just Easier to do it Myself

No it isn’t. That’s a lie. It’s just easier not to deal with your disappointment in other people anymore so “I’ll just do it myself” is how you protect yourself. But it’s a lie. And it’s sucking the life out of you. So what’s a girl to do when she knows she’s killing herself picking up all the dr...

by Kris Plachy — Jan 22, 2026 boss ceo delegating employees female entrepreneuers founder leader managing owner president small business team woman women

The Sage

There are women on this planet who are Sages. Women others turn to for counsel, clarity, and truth.Not because they have all the answers—but because their presence makes space for the right answers to appear. These women carry a particular mantle.They hold rooms.They steady nervous systems.They b...

Jan 22, 2026

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