Feeling Your Best, Following Your Dreams, Wake Up Calls
Reframing “Failure” into Growth
So many folks come for coaching feeling like an abject failure – explaining how they’ve utterly botched something essential to them (a job, new business endeavor, a relationship, project, or performance, etc.). The only emotions they can experience around... Read More
Blog
Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Are You Having “Palate Fatigue?”
Yesterday, I met with a new friend, JoAnn LoGiurato, Founder of Dancing on Grapes (http://www.dancingongrapes.com), who delivers empowering, educational (and totally fun!) programs and events designed to educate and empower women in their knowledge and experiences of wine. ... Read More
Creativity, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change
Breakthrough Can Come with One Simple Question
Last night, I went to a very stimulating workshop called “Write Yourself Free” in CT, offered by The Editing Company, and held by two wonderful and empowering writing coaches/teachers, Susie Horgan and Patrick McCord. The program was designed to... Read More
Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change
Feeling Like a Wobbly Beginner?
Happy Birthday Geminis! Today’s my birthday, and I am particularly energized and excited about the possibilities on this special day, after a long bout of moving backwards or sideways (retrogrades tend to do that!). But I’m not always feeling... Read More
Uncategorized
Is Striving to be Superwoman Getting Old?
I’ve spent a good number of years researching the crises of working women today, and how we can overcome them. In the process I’ve learned so much about what it means to craft a rewarding, fulfilling professional and personal... Read More
Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change, Women in Leadership
What Employers Can (and Must) Do To Support Women at Work
What are the 12 common crises working women face today, and what can employers do to help working women face these challenges effectively?
Read More
Advice, Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Inspiration for Change, Tips for Empowerment
Been Harshly Criticized Lately? What To Do When Others Try to Make You Wrong
Anyone who has stood up for something they believe in -- and been attacked for it -- knows it’s challenging at best, devastating at worst. What should you do if you’ve been harshly demeaned or criticized for your... Read More
Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Men vs. Women at Work, Support for Change
Women Bullying Women at Work: Can We Reverse the Trend?
In my 18-year corporate life, I experienced a great deal of bullying from women, most of which came from female bosses and a handful of “equals” in the political hierarchy. These experiences were traumatic, and I had no... Read More
Advice, Careers, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change
Thinking About Starting Your Own Business? What You Should Know
Thinking about launching your own business? Read on for Seven Critical Questions you should answer before moving forward. Read More
Advice, Careers, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Top Five Mistakes to Avoid in Career Reinvention
After spending eight years reinventing myself from a corporate VP to an entrepreneur, women's career and life coach, author, speaker and women’s work-life expert, I’ve made a good number of huge mistakes and missteps that have tripped me up,... Read More
Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
The Power of Community for Women
Community for women is powerful. I see this phenomenon frequently – women may feel completely stuck and alone (“broken down” as I call it) in their problems, but when they make the commitment to take a small step... Read More
Empowerment, Feeling Your Best
Advocating Real Beauty – From the Inside Out
What is Real Beauty? DOVE makes a difference. Read More
Advice, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Surviving Tough Times: Moving Forward Despite the Obstacles
How do we keep moving forward with optimism and energy when what's appearing in our lives is crushingly challenging?
Read More
Careers, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Tips for Empowerment
What to Do When Options Run Out? Take a New Path
In the past several months, I’ve worked with a great number of clients who have found themselves at what seems to be a complete dead-end professionally. Avenues they were fully passionate about pursuing (and would have allowed for successful... Read More
Feeling Your Best, Support for Change
What Do You Mean, You’re Taking a Walk? You Have Job-Hunting to Do!
What is real self-care, and why don't we do it? Read More
Feeling Your Best, Inspiration for Change, Wake Up Calls
Are You Having an Allergic Reaction – of the Spiritual Kind?
What's your brand of spiritual "allergic" reaction - the physical, emotional and spiritual signs that you need a shift in thinking and action? Read More