This weekend, everything changes. And I can't wait.
- 15 hours ago
- 2 min read
This Sunday, I'll hear it again.
The squeal of tires leaving pit row. The pop of exhaust cracking out the back of an Indy car at 225 mph. Thirty-five years of that feeling — and it still sends chills up my spine every single time. My arms stand at attention before my brain even catches up.
This year is going to be different, though.
For 17 years, I lived in Speedway, Indiana. Race weekend meant an alarm clock of helicopters overhead and the cannon booming from the track at dawn. It meant watching families haul coolers down my street, backpacks loaded and beers cracked open, ready for the walk in.
The night before the race, I hosted 30 to 40 of my closest race fanatic friends — neon paper with trivia questions were stapled all along my fence and every year the winner came down to two history buffs trading obscure Indy facts like currency.
This year though, it will be different. Neither my brother nor I live in Speedway anymore.
Raceday morning, will drive in and park in a lot...just like the other 300,000 people.
No cannon waking me up. No helicopters at dawn. No neighbors hauling coolers past my window. For the first time in nearly two decades, I won't have the "local" experience. I'll be a visitor — to a place I once called home.
It will be bittersweet but that makes way for the new. Like my boyfriend attending the race for the first time, a cousin making her second trip in a row after 20 years away, and another generation beginning to build their own history with this race.
The tradition isn't disappearing. It's evolving.
I see this same moment in the leaders I work with all the time. The team changes. The org restructures. A role that once felt energizing starts to feel unfamiliar. The rhythms and patterns they once relied on quietly begin to shift.
And the feeling that comes with it? Some might call it fear...especially if you don't like change. But it doesn't have to be disorienting. There is a way through.
Change doesn't have to be bad. It's just different. And the discomfort you're feeling right now isn't permanent — your brain is doing exactly what it's wired to do: resist the unfamiliar, grieve what it knew, and slowly, when given space, find a new rhythm.
The question worth sitting with this week:
Where in your life or your leadership is something familiar quietly shifting? Are you fighting it — or finding the new way through?
If you're in the middle of that shift and could use a thinking partner, I'd love to talk.
Yes, seriously - a complimentary coaching conversation, just you and me, in a safe and trusted space.
With you in this,
Halle
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