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Anne Byrd

Business & Executive Coach

I'm a Washington, DC native transplanted in Richmond, VA, and a single mom to one amazing 20-year old son. Leveraging an MBA from George Mason University, and a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, I run a very cool corporation called Halstead, Inc., with my business partn...

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The Kitchen-Dance

Anne Byrd

There’s a dance I do in the kitchen when I’ve had a particularly amazing thing happen and I have to release the happy.  It’s my own little personal dance; twirling is involved, as are clapping, tapping, and other details that I’ll spare you from here.  It’s a beautiful thing... in my kitchen.

Last Saturday, Angie and I were in a local bookstore.  She called me to come see something, and there on a big table under a big sign was our Halstead book - My Boss Sucks: A Story Book and Survival Guide.  It was center stage, next to business classics like Who Moved My Cheese and above Freakanomics, Drucker, and Good to Great.  For me, that was a kitchen-dance moment, except that I wasn’t in the kitchen, and nothing about my surroundings was personal.  I think, in the blur of that moment, I restrained as much of the kitchen-dance as I could.  I think, in that moment, I displayed the very most humility and gratitude that one could expect, and I merely clapped and executed the slightest of a tap-dance shuffle.  It took all the control I had, and then some.

Almost a week later, I’m still basking in the glow of my kitchen-dance moment in the bookstore.  I don’t how many books have sold, but I know a new personal level of delight, and for that I am truly grateful.