‘Range of Change’ is the podcast that explores the pivotal moments of change in our lives. I am facilitating this conversation as an ICF certified coach and change management expert who has spent the last 20 years helping individuals and organizations succeed through significant shifts. I have seen the range of change – and what helps drive success - whether you are choosing to embark on a bold new chapter, or life has chosen it for you.
The goal of the podcast is both to illuminate the universality of continuous change, talking about the key moments (whether fairly unique or ones that so many of us face at some point), as well as to provide a thread from our conversations to the practical ways we can all grow more resilient and empowered in the face of change.
In 1944, a thirty-one-year-old woman spent her days in a cramped OSS research lab, mixing and testing shark repellent for downed pilots in the Pacific. Seventeen years later she published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and became America's first celebrity chef. This is often relayed as the story of a late bloomer, someone who found her true calling only after wandering through 'lost years' of little value.
This episode makes the case that those years were immensely valuable. The habits Julia Child built to test and perfect hundreds of recipes for eight years, one variable at a time, as well as the traits she exemplified in her meticulous records and refusal to take shortcuts were critical to her later success.
She had already spent a decade honing them in different ways. We walk through what her actual history of success looked like on paper in 1948, why it didn't resemble a résumé anyone would recognize, and what happened when her publisher rejected the manuscript after nearly a decade of work and told her the very thing that made the book worth publishing was the problem.
Range of Change explores what change actually requires, told through stories most people think they already know.
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15 Jul 2026
My say
Taylor Swift got married in the middle of Manhattan, inside the most famous arena in the country, while thousands of fans stood outside knowing they would see nothing at all. That gaudy spectacle of privacy got me thinking about the strange unwritten contract between famous people and the rest of us.
In this episode I trace 70 years of fan culture, from a girl mailing a letter into the void in 1955 to a generation that can no longer tell whether the door is really open, and ask how we went from admirers to something closer to shareholders.
Along the way: what the quiet comebacks of Louis CK, Scott Rudin, and Mel Gibson say about how long our outrage actually lasts, why Bill Burr's Saudi gig bothered me more than I can defend, and what the Nate Bargatze backlash reveals about the versions of people we author in our own heads. And the question to wrestle with: who told me I get a say?
1 Jul 2026
My Neighbor
In 1978, Fred Rogers sat across from the family of Senator Heinz at WQED in Pittsburgh. Teresa Heinz was talking about the night her son André was nearly killed. It was raw, honest, the kind of moment television rarely earns and just loves.
And Rogers kept cutting away from it. Back to the campaign trail. Back to safe ground. He had justly earned the title of the most patient man on American television, and he couldn't stay with the one thing that mattered.
This episode is about what he did with that. After nearly two decades in children's television, Rogers spent two years trying to reach adults. He and found out, quietly and unmistakably, that it wasn't where his gift lived. What he built after that was the strongest work of his career.
That's a story about examining his History of Success, understanding what he loves intrinsically, and ensuring he remains aligned to his core values in this change. That's what we'll examine in this episode.
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