Grounded,
Finally
A memoir of trusting myself
What we inherit. What we learn to become. How we find our way.
Name what conflict always cost you.
Build the self-trust it never let you keep.
Writer.
Leadership coach.
Daughter, still learning.
For 25 years, Lisa Martin coached leaders at organizations like HSBC, PwC, and TELUS, and wrote five books on leadership. Now she turns that same clarity on her own story.
Grounded, Finally is a collection of micro-memoirs about growing up inside a parent's emotional unpredictability, and what it takes to build the self-trust that was never given the chance to form. Not a story of recovering something lost — a story of building something for the first time.
She writes now as a daughter.
Ways to walk with the story
Stories by Lisa
A new micro-memoir most Sundays, building toward the book — plus the reflections that didn't make the page.
Read the archive →Read by Lisa
A limited run of the memoir's stories, told aloud. One season. No open-ended feed.
Listen to the trailer →Companion Reflections
Self-reflection tools the memoir doesn't explore, with new pieces added regularly.
See what's inside →"I truly couldn't put it down. Beautifully written. Part story, part poetry, part diary. Vulnerable and generously honest."
Ground Floor
Subscribe to Lisa's Substack, Stories by Lisa, before Grounded, Finally publishes in April 2027, and receive a complimentary digital copy at launch.
A story most Sundays, with updates on the book along the way. Always free.