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In the Avagasso blog, we delve deep into our power as warriors and leaders to share our insights, musings, experiences, and wisdom with our fellow dragons who are seeking to unlock their power and expand their inner and outer worlds.
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💚 Weekend Blessing 🐉
May this weekend offer you space to breathe between what was and what might be. To rest in your humanity, not your performance. To trust your gut when the path splits into honor and longing. Sometimes leadership doesn’t roar, it pauses, listens, and weighs the cost of each yes. Not just the gold it offers, but the hours it demands. The image it polishes. The life it reroutes. May you be guided not by fear, nor by ego, but by the quiet courage to ask: What will matter most whe

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 171 min read


💚🔥🐉 The Breaking Point: When Everything Stops
There are moments in life when everything changes with a single click, a single glance, a single silence. For me, that moment came with the unraveling. One morning, I opened my laptop, checked my account, expecting relief. Instead, I found emptiness. Not just mine, but everyone’s. No warning. No explanation. Just silence. The company had stopped paying salaries. And in that silence, something inside me broke … and awakened. I was a single mom without support. I had to take a

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 142 min read


💚🔥 The Weight I Carried, And the Strength I Found
📖 From the launch of The Leadership Leap I was also a mother. A single mother. And I was trying to navigate the impossible balancing act...

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 52 min read


💚🔥🐉 A Weekend Blessing
May you find the strength to release unrequited love, when it does not return what your soul needs to grow. May you also find the wisdom...

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 31 min read


🐟🐉 Dedication without nourishment is just erosion.
Yesterday I shared Lesson 18, that dedication isn’t burning out for the cause. It’s showing up with alignment, energy, and care so you...

Sarah Gruneisen
Sep 111 min read


💚🔥🐉 Integrity isn’t tested when things are easy.
It’s tested when you stand your ground, even as others drift away from what you know is right. I’ve had to do this many times in my...

Sarah Gruneisen
Aug 191 min read


💚🐉 The book I’d been writing since I was a teenager… isn’t the one I published first.
For years, I worked on a book about my life. I’d start, stop, rewrite. Then last October, a free weekend book-writing course landed in my...

Sarah Gruneisen
Aug 142 min read


💚🔥🐉 Some wounds never fade.
And maybe they’re not meant to. Some of the greatest leaders I know didn’t start their journey with confidence or clarity. They started...

Sarah Gruneisen
Aug 131 min read


Mentorship: The Fire That Ignites Growth
There’s a moment in every dragon’s journey when they stand at the edge of the unknown, wings trembling, wondering; can I really fly?...

Sarah Gruneisen
Feb 213 min read


Wishing Everyone a Joyful and Peaceful Holiday Season
Embracing Connection and Intention Wishing everyone a joyful and peaceful holiday season, no matter your beliefs or traditions. For me,...

Sarah Gruneisen
Dec 27, 20242 min read


Announcing the Winner of the Legendary Leadership Scholarship Challenge!
I am thrilled to share that Sebastian Kamilli is the clear winner of the scholarship to my Legendary Leadership program! 🏆 His...

Sarah Gruneisen
Dec 22, 20241 min read


From Core to Impact: Unlocking Engineers’ Inner Dragons
As leaders, we often believe we can inspire motivation from the top down, setting values, driving behaviors, and expecting alignment. But...

Sarah Gruneisen
Dec 11, 20243 min read


Empowering the Empowerers: Supporting Leaders Who Uplift Others
💡 Leadership is often about empowering others, but what happens when the empowerers feel unsupported themselves? Leaders are expected to...

Sarah Gruneisen
Dec 3, 20241 min read


From Reading Struggles to Strategic Communicator: Embracing My Neurodivergent Strengths
🔥 Growing up neurodivergent came with its own set of challenges, and one of the hardest was struggling with reading comprehension when...

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 28, 20243 min read


From Challenges to Strengths: My Personal Journey with Neurodivergence
Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored neurodivergence through various lenses - diagnosis, self-diagnosis, gender, and the challenges of...

Sarah Gruneisen
Oct 24, 20241 min read


The Overbearing Firebreather
Meet the Overbearing Firebreather, a leader who relies on force and intimidation to get results. This dragon’s fiery temper burns...

Sarah Gruneisen
Sep 24, 20241 min read


We Can Only Change Ourselves and Only When We Are Ready: The Dragon's Journey of Self-Transformation
🐉 🐍 A dragon sheds its old scales not because others demand it, but when it is ready. It knows that growth and transformation are...

Sarah Gruneisen
Sep 8, 20242 min read


Type 1: The Reformer - My Story of Self-Discovery and Leadership
This is a deeply personal post, as Type 1 is my Enneagram type. Growing up abandoned, abused, and adopted, I faced the fear of being...

Sarah Gruneisen
Aug 28, 20241 min read


The Adaptive Dragon: Aurora's Tale of Leadership and Growth
Here is a vibrant tale of growth, resilience, and the power of flexible leadership styles. ❤️🔥💚🔥🔥🔥🔥🐉 Explore the lessons that can...

Sarah Gruneisen
Jul 30, 20241 min read


5 steps to accessing your core power
Seventeen years ago, my friends gifted me a management-style report for my 30th birthday. It was the first time I reflected deeply on...

Sarah Gruneisen
Jul 17, 20242 min read
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