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I have a LOT of blog posts to look through! If you’re looking for something specific, like “shadow work” or “text mapping”, I suggest using Google with your search words and “ubu skills”.

NOTE: I’ve recently migrated my free content to the tools section of this website. If a link to a free guide is broken, you’ll find the resource in tools.

Fake It ‘til You Make It? Hard Pass.
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

Fake It ‘til You Make It? Hard Pass.

I keep seeing this come up from biz leaders, and each time I literally grimace.

These people aren’t trying to cause you harm! But what they are doing is adding fuel to your Imposter Syndrome.

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Confidence Vs. Bravado
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

Confidence Vs. Bravado

I couldn't hold this topic in any longer. I've been sitting on it for months (if not years). It has to do with leadership and it has to do with how we see others, and how we see ourselves.

And it's difficult. And it's going to piss some of you off.

But honestly, I'm walking straight into my fears this year. (I'm still working through wanting everyone to like me.)

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10 Shadow Work Questions
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

10 Shadow Work Questions

“These are tall promises, Megan.”

Yep, I know. I don’t fuck around with words or with actions.

The reason you’re afraid to tell your boss to stop belittling you in front of your coworkers is because you have deep rooted fears that you haven’t confronted that work inside, in the shadows, to keep you from growing. It’s the same reason you can’t tell your partner what you really like in bed, why you feel ashamed loving certain things that you love, and why certain words can spin you into a depression.

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Music As A Tool
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

Music As A Tool

It’s pretty incredible. Just like that whiff of something or other that brings you back to your Grandmother’s house, or your favourite childhood stuffed animal.

If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll now have some tools in your toolbox that you can use for presentations, office meetings, difficult conversations, general interactions.

And now I want to talk about the ways that you can use music, especially at this point in history.

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Luck and Work
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

Luck and Work

Yesterday, I found a four leaf clover. I have been actively looking for one for months. (It became my new thing to look for after PM Harper took the penny out of regular rotation.)

And then just like that, on a lawn with thousands of clovers, I noticed it.

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Why We Need To Be Visible
Megan Hamilton Megan Hamilton

Why We Need To Be Visible

It’s coming up in all areas of my life right now. It’s a hot topic, and especially for women. It’s difficult, it’s complicated, sometimes it’s dangerous. It’s the need to show up and be seen.

We are in the middle of a global pandemic - most of us around the world have never experienced this kind of shut down, and certainly never in lived history has the entire world stopped.

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