Ly Smith

By Ly Smith | UpCycle Coaching From the age of nine to seventeen, I was a competitive gymnast. I want you to sit with what that actually means for a moment. It means I was in a gym, doing the same skills over and over and over again until my body stopped thinking about them and simply did them. It means I fell. A lot. It means I got back up. A lot. It means I learned very early that the performance people see on the floor is never, ever the whole story. Nobody in the stands sees the ten...

Summer is not over yet. And neither are you. This week probably stirred up some uncomfortable honesty. The vacation you haven't taken. The KPIs that need more attention than they've been getting. The habits that quietly drifted somewhere between June and now. The goals that feel a little further away than they did back in January when you wrote them down with so much certainty. There is still time. It's only August Maybe there's a child leaving home soon, taking a piece of your heart with...

By Ly Smith | UpCycle Coaching Life Brings Us To All Seasons Disruption has a way of making everything feel equally important and equally impossible at the same time. The to-do list does not pause because your life has been upended. The bills do not wait because you are grieving. The team still needs direction even when you are the one who feels most lost. The clients still need serving even when you are quietly trying to hold yourself together behind the screen. And so you spin. You move...