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What Gardening Taught Me About Being Too Tough on Myself
Are you being too tough on yourself?
I have been asking myself that question as I work on setting up my garden.
For a while, I focused on what had not happened yet. The layout was not clear. The fence was still in progress. Other people seemed to have beautiful, productive gardens already, and I ...
by Erica Mattison MPA JD —
Jun 04, 2026
career
leadership
A Simple Framework for Clearer Career and Leadership Communication
As a law student, I learned the IRAC method. IRAC is a structured legal analysis method that stands for Issue, Rule, Application, and Conclusion. It is used to organize reasoning and communicate legal arguments clearly.
That may sound specific to the legal field, but the framework can be useful i...
by Erica Mattison —
Jun 01, 2026
career
communication
leadership
Are You in the People Business?
After meeting an experienced entrepreneur, wealth manager, and longtime finance professor, Kashif Ahmed, at a Suffolk University event in Boston, I invited him to join me for a conversation on the podcast.
What stayed with me was not a tactic. It was perspective.
After decades in financial planni...
by Erica Mattison —
Feb 19, 2026
career growth
entrepreneurship
leadership
networking
Working With Intention