When everything feels like it's falling apart, maybe it's your business struggling to stay afloat,

or your team losing focus, or even just the chaos in your personal life. Those are the moments where it

feels impossible to lead. But here's the truth. Leadership is not about showing up when it's easy.

It's about stepping up when everything feels hard. This isn't just about business, it's about life,

because leadership is universal

and every single one of us is called to it at some point.

So recently, my company has been growing really fast

and one of the hardest things to manage

is actually keeping the culture intact.

It is easy for things to slip through the cracks.

And as leaders, we kind of have to step in

and address them even when it's really uncomfortable. And so recently, I had to have one of those really tough conversations

with the department. There was some gossiping. There was some shady behavior. There was some stuff

happening in the workplace that was just completely against our culture. And so at first, I was like,

how the fuck did we get here? But then I realized it actually made sense because I was like, how the fuck did we get here? But then I realized it actually made sense because I was

like, okay, the team's grown really quickly. I haven't had time to reinforce the values. And that's

on me. I had to step up and I had to remind everybody what do we stand for. I had to make it clear

what was acceptable, what was unacceptable. And then I had to explain consequences of what it looks like

if those things occur again. What happens is really I stepped into this department and I said,

all right, straight up, you've got a choice. If you want to act that way, that's fine. But you cannot

act that way again and still have a job here. This is an at will job. This is not a prison. If you're not on board

with the culture, if you don't like what I'm saying, if this sounds gross to you, that's your

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