🌱Its Galanthus Season!

When a woman learns to lead herself, everything changes

It’s Galanthus season!!!!

My favorite time of year.

Every year around this time — as we move toward International Women’s Day on March 8 — I’m reminded why The Nourished Leader exists in the first place.

Years ago, while living in Ukraine, a little girl handed me a delicate white flower for International Women’s Day.

podsnezhnik — which translates to - under the snow.

I remember looking at it in disbelief.

How could anything grow in these conditions?

Later, I learned something remarkable. The Galanthus (snowdrop) flower doesn’t wait for spring.

It creates its own heat.

That internal warmth melts the snow around it, allowing it to push through frozen ground long before the season changes.

That image has stayed with me ever since. It has been part of my brand for over 10yrs!

Because leadership — real leadership — often works the same way.

We don’t always get perfect timing.
We don’t always get certainty.
We don’t always get ideal conditions.

But we move anyway. We create momentum anyway.

We grow anyway.

And that’s what Galanthus season represents to me.

Not perfection.

Self-leadership in motion.

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This year feels especially meaningful.

I’m bringing The Nourished Leader back online in a more intentional way — and over the next couple of weeks, in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s Month, I’ll be sharing more about:

🌱 The Galanthus story and what it means
🌱 The principles of self-leadership I teach
🌱 Conversations with women navigating complexity and change
🌱 The 15 Commitments of a Nourished Leader
🌱 Reflections from this season of growth

And honestly — I’m excited.

Because Galanthus season isn’t about waiting until everything is figured out.

It’s about choosing to grow while you’re still in the middle of it.

So if you find yourself in a moment that feels uncertain, cold, or unlikely…

I hope you remember:

Something in you already knows how to create the warmth you need.

Spring doesn’t begin when conditions change.

It begins when something inside decides to grow.

Happy Galanthus season. 🌱

— Natalie