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ANGELIQUE MACLEOD
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This blog is a space for leadership insights, creative reflections, and personal essays drawn from lived experience.
Here, Angelique MacLeod shares her thoughts on expressive leadership, healing, and the intersections of professional and personal life.
Welcome To The Blog
You Only Get One Life. What Will You Do With It?
You only get one life. What would you like to do with it? Picture yourself at a table, pen in hand, a blank page in front of you. At the top, that question stares back: What will you write? It’s so easy to stumble through the days - caught in the grind, reacting instead of creating - rather than purposefully scripting where you want to go, who you want to be, and what you want to leave behind. But seriously - pen in hand - what would you write? Would you push limits, break th
Angelique MacLeod
5 hours ago2 min read
The Creative Process of Sales: Why Strategy Is Art, Not Just Hustle
"Sales Is a Creative Process: Strategy, Burnout, and Rediscovering Your Art" - Angelique MacLeod Creativity Isn’t Easy - and That’s the Point We often think of creativity as painting, poetry, or music. But creativity is the lifeblood of everything we do - from leadership to innovation, from entrepreneurship to sales. And here’s the truth: creativity is rarely easy. Henri Matisse once said, “Creativity takes courage.” Ernest Hemingway
Angelique MacLeod
Dec 12 min read
Boardroom Battles: Surviving the Rooms That Break You
Have you ever walked into a room - full of people - and felt like everything about you was wrong? That rush of nervousness flooding your body, the wave of separateness crashing over you, leaving you convinced you don’t belong? It wasn’t always this way for me. But over the last two decades, that feeling has grown louder, rattling my confidence, making me feel like the imposter in the room. I remember being no more than eight years old, gathering trinkets and books that meant
Angelique MacLeod
Nov 224 min read
The Broken Tale of "Happily Ever After"
There’s a fairy tale most of us have bought into: go to college, get the job, meet "The One", get married, buy the dream house, have kids - and happiness will follow. The process seems flawless. Build the foundation, then the family, and all will work out. But does it? For many, the dream shatters. Corporate life, while rewarding at times, is often a grind. In Canada, 69% of employees report experiencing ongoing symptoms that can lead to burnout, and 42% say they already fee
Angelique MacLeod
Nov 173 min read
The Sprain of Stuck: To the Overextended
Every weekend, like clockwork, I take my laptop to a local café, open it up, and begin typing out my blog - Sex and the City style. A modern-day Carrie Bradshaw in a much smaller city, with far less expensive shoes. Each weekend, a new topic seems to spill forth onto the blank white space in front of me. But this week? Nothing. My mind had no direction. I felt stuck. Not just creatively - physically, mentally, emotionally. I felt stunted. That feeling of “stuck” creeps in mo
Angelique MacLeod
Nov 93 min read
When the Body Keeps Score - and the Mind Holds the Pen
A month after wrapping up a 12-month contract, a commercial, and two indie films - I had nothing but time on my hands. This free time to think opened the door to the unexpectd realization that: • I don’t stop thinking; and • my mind controls me. I’ve suffered - deeply and repeatedly - from situations that never happened and conversations that never took place. You might argue they weren’t real experiences. But my body would disagree. It lived them. It carries the weight an
Angelique MacLeod
Nov 26 min read
From Lone Wolf to Leader: The Journey from “Me” to “We”
I started out as a lone wolf - an individual contributor who poured everything into her work, reached past her limits, and shared the glory with no one. I operated in survival mode, not out of ego, but necessity. I believed that to be enough, I had to do it all. And truthfully? I didn’t feel like I was enough. I felt like the loser trying to become someone she could never possibly be. But I wanted it - badly. Do you know that feeling? I was the first to raise my hand. The one
Angelique MacLeod
Oct 283 min read
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