What Dream Would You Like To Share?

An experience, a conversation, a loss...a reminder that our dreams are meant to be spoken and lived before it's too late.

Jun 05, 2026

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An interesting series of events happened recently - This past weekend, I got to see an artist and human I admire. I didn’t just get to see her perform her music and gifts. I was invited to join a group of women for a weekend of camping, connecting, and music for the soul in The Gorge Amphitheatre in eastern Washington.

We had the pleasure of witnessing Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls, I’m with Her, Sara Bareilles, Bonnie Raitt, and The Highwomen across two stunning evenings in late May.

The love for their craft, the creativity of their collaboration, and the support and admiration for one another were visceral. The experience was a warm hug, a reminder of what happens when we do things that scare us and show up with our humanity.

There was magic and grace being with friends and strangers outside, gathering to support one another, experience masters of their craft, and advocate for a greater good.

It was touching and a little overwhelming at times. It brought tears to my eyes as I looked up at the starry sky and was reminded of the vastness and the smallness and how connected and similar we really are.

A few days later, I was interviewed by Sarah Kent with The Dreamworks Project. She is a curious soul wanting to build deeper connections with and amongst women to grow into their dreams. She began the short interview with a simple question, “What dream would you like to share in our time together today?”

In my work, I start with a similar question: “What do you want?” If I’m working individually with a client, I ask a more intimate version that begins with their vision for their life. If I’m working with a team or organization, I ask a similar question: “What are you working toward?”

Often, the answer can be quite difficult to articulate.

Many of us go about our day allowing others to dictate and influence our actions, our focus. We begin to adopt that as our priorities - personally and professionally.

We condition ourselves to look outside ourselves for what we want. That answer is, at first, often about making others happy, not rocking the boat, fitting in with the crowd. It takes time to reconnect with their inner, deeper desires, and that’s ok. It’s completely normal.

I myself began exploring and articulating my big vision and goals a few years ago. It was an iterative process to begin and reflect, then adjust. I’ll admit, it had been a few months since I visited my Vision and Goals (I always have a personal and professional goal that feels big and scary, and I have no idea how I’m going to make it happen so it fuels me, my actions, my work…). So, as this interview neared, I began reflecting and iterating.

During the conversation, I became aware of something that has been quietly maturing within me for months.

I no longer feel called to convince people. Nor am I responsible for helping everyone.

What I feel now is a responsibility to bring my gifts, experience, and perspective more fully to those who are ready to receive them.

The leaders, teams, and organizations who can feel themselves at an edge.
The ones sensing that what is breaking down is not themselves, but the assumptions, structures, and leadership models they’ve outgrown.
The ones realizing they no longer want their resume or their to-do list driving their decisions.
The people willing to move beyond fear-based leadership, fear-based belonging, and fear-based decision-making.
The people willing to reclaim their authority, trust their own knowing, and participate in a more conscious and regenerative future.
The people ready to become who they are, not who they’ve been conditioned to be.

And as I gave voice to that truth, I realized my dream had evolved.

It was no longer about building a business or achieving a goal. It had become a clear vision.

My dream and vision is to help people remember who they are before conditioning taught them who they should be.

To help leaders, teams, and organizations to move from control to trust, from performance to presence, from belonging through conformity to belonging through authenticity.

A vision of people reclaiming the authority they unknowingly surrendered to expectations, institutions, titles, and old ways of leading.

A vision of helping people become free enough to be fully themselves.

And from that place, they can help create healthier leadership, healthier organizations, healthier communities, and a healthier relationship with the living world itself.

This is something I witness often in my work. Whether with an individual leader, a team, or an organization, there is a moment when what was once an idea becomes something more embodied.

They stop talking about the vision and begin feeling it…and living from it.

There is something that happens when our dreams are witnessed and shared.

It is incredible to witness, to observe the change in body language, the resonance in the tone of voice.

That happened for me in this interview. I didn’t want the conversation to end. Sarah asked questions that brought my dream out in a deeper way and I still didn’t feel like I shared everything I wanted to and it felt so good.

What a gift it was to be asked “What dream would you like to share…?” I encourage you to ask yourself this simple question, what is it you want? And see where it takes you.

A few days later, life offered its own reminder about why these questions matter.

This morning I woke up to a message from my mom. The kind of message you never want to receive. My brother lost a friend and colleague while at work.

If any of you reading have been on a mountain with glaciers, you may have crossed paths with my brother or one of his colleagues - a small community of climbing rangers and mountain guides. It’s alpine climbing season in the United States and due to a low snow winter and stormy spring, the season is only recently picking up. The mountains are crowded with a pressure to climb toward the summits of our glaciated peaks.

I did not meet this colleague of my brothers; however, the news shocked me to my core. I had just had a wonderful video call with him to catch up as he’s often in the wilderness without service for weeks this time of year. He was tired and grateful for a day of rest.

He has an incredible demeanor for work that brings him to some of the most remote and untouched places in the world. It inspires and humbles him. He has a gift for being a light in a very stressful situation, the calm like the eye of a storm.

Today, he and his colleagues had to recover a colleague and friend from the glacier. Other climbing rangers from parks are on their way to provide support and allow for rest and processing of this tragic loss.

The community is showing up for one another. They, and so many others, are offering a warm hug and a reminder of what happens when we do things that scare us and show up with our humanity. In the end, isn’t that what life is about?

I share all of this because it is a reminder that we never know how much time we have, even though we know we only have one life to live.

What comes to mind is Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day” especially the final verses…

“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Over the last few weeks, I have been reminded of three things.

We need spaces where people can fully express their gifts.
We need conversations that invite us to speak our dreams aloud.
And we need reminders that our time here is not unlimited.

Dreams become real when they move from the quiet corners of our hearts into the world.

They become real when they are spoken.

Witnessed.

Shared.

Not because they are guaranteed to happen, but because they begin to shape how we live.