Simple, NOT Easy
Simple, Not Easy is not about pretending work is simple. It is about making work more understandable, more intentional, and more actionable, especially when it's NOT easy. Cyndee, the insightful illuminator, helps listeners see what is really going on with compassion and accountability. Michelle, the bold black marker, calls it like it is and challenges listeners to own their role in the outcome. Together, they create a conversation that is practical, honest, and rooted in real experience. So grab your coffee. Get intentional. Listen for the idea, the tool, the question, or the push that meets you where you are. Then try something. Because in a world obsessed with artificial intelligence, we are doubling down on human intelligence. Your human intelligence that may be the very thing that changes the room.
Episodes
We've all been there, too many meetings and not enough time to do the work. When do we say STOP to the madness?
We've normalized calendars packed with meetings, double bookings, competing priorities and work that somehow gets squeezed in around the edges.
Maybe the problem isn't time management.
Maybe it's clarity.
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“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Most organizations would say they care about their people.
The values are on the wall and what they stand for on the website, maybe even a “Best Place to Work” award in the lobby.
But what happens when the experience of working there doesn't m...
Most people think compassion at work means being softer.
Lowering the pressure.
Giving people more time.
Letting missed expectations slide.
What if compassion is actually clarity?
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore how compassion shows up when the stakes ...
Most people think compassion means being nice.
It doesn't.
Compassion isn't lowering expectations. It isn't fixing everyone's problems. It isn't rescuing people from hard moments.
It's something much more powerful.
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Cyndee and Michelle unpack one of leadership's most misunderstood skills.
They explore why compassion is empathy in action, not taking over ...
Most people wait for someone else to fix the organization.
The best leaders don't. They step forward.
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore what organizational courage really looks like and it's not what you think.
It's not having the biggest title, but the courage to ask hard questions, build relationships across the business, challenge assumptions, and volunteer before you are ready.
In this episode you...
Team dynamic that erodes trust...
The conversation everyone knows needs to happen...
...but no one wants to have.
So we wait.
We hope the problem fixes itself. We convince ourselves it's getting better. We tell ourselves, "Now isn't the right time."
Until one small crack becomes a gap that threatens the entire team.
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore what cour...
Most people think courage feels like confidence.
It doesn't.
More often, courage looks like sweaty palms before a presentation. Asking the question no one else wants to ask. Speaking up after you've convinced yourself to stay quiet. Making a decision without having all the data.
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee unpack what courage really looks like in the flow of wo...
"It's just the culture."
"It's what leadership wants."
"They don't really want feedback."
We've all heard it.
But what if we are the "they" we've been waiting on?
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee take curiosity beyond the individual and the team to explore how it shapes an entire organization.
They challenge one of the biggest myths in business...culture is somethin...
What if your team's biggest competitive advantage isn't talent...
It's curiosity.
Most teams spend their days reacting, blah, blah, blah, meeting after meeting, deadline after deadline, solving today's problems with yesterday's thinking. Gross!
But what happens when a team intentionally creates space to ask:
"What if?"
In this episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle and Cyndee explore curios...
What if the biggest barrier to influence isn't other people...it's the story you've already created in your own head?
We've all been there. You send the email. You pitch the idea. You hear...nothing.
Silence becomes rejection. Questions become resistance. And before you've had a conversation, you've already decided how it's going to end.
In this first episode of Simple, Not Easy, Michelle ...
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