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
Blog
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
Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change, Tips for Empowerment
Hot Mommas Project – Helping Women Thrive
The Hot Mommas Project is dedicated to helping women of all generations thrive and grow. Check it out at www.hotmommasproject.org. Read More
Support for Change, Tips for Empowerment, Work-Life Balance
What is Work-Life Balance Anyway?
How do you know when you've achieved work-life balance, and when you've lost it completely? Read More
Advice, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Trying Too Hard to Succeed? Slow Down and Breathe
Feel like you're on a never-ending hamster-wheel ride, trying so hard to succeed in these tough times? Take some time out to Step Back, Let Go, and Say Yes. Read More
Empowerment, Men and Women, Support for Change
The Overfunctioning of the American Woman
Penelope Trunk mentions Breakdown, Breakthrough in her blog The Brazen Careerist, and comments on my contention that men need to step it up in the arena of domestic responsibility as women emerge stronger in the nation's workforce. Read More
Careers
Can Losing a Job Save Your Life?
I’m so grateful for this review and really enjoy Anita’s work on her blog – http://www.45things.com/2008/12/can-losing-job-save-your-life.php Thanks, Anita! Read More
Advice, Men vs. Women at Work, Support for Change
Will Women Outnumber Men in the Workforce?
Given the latest recession trend of layoffs hitting men harder than women, women may outnumber men in the workforce for the first time in American history. How will this affect the lives of men and women, and what... Read More
Advice
Power Up! Stepping Up to Your Power and Self-Confidence
Greetings! In the past two months, I’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of my clients who, as professional women, wish to “power up” in their work roles and in their family lives. They feel compelled... Read More
Inspiration for Change
A New Day
From my view, yesterday was a miraculous day, making possible a great shifting on many levels. Read More
Branding
What’s Your Brand?
Greetings! As I move forward growing my coaching and consulting business, Ellia Communications, I’ve realized I need some outside help around branding. I want “Ellia” to reach people, grab them from the insides, and communicate powerfully the “central organizing principle”... Read More
Yes I Can Thinking
New Year’s Resolution or Soulful Commitment?
Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m not a fan of the concept of New Year’s resolutions. It seems that these “resolutions” are somehow now associated with failure…the things we wanted to do in the new year but didn’t quite... Read More
Advice
A Job vs. a “Calling”
I recently read a very thought-provoking article by Michael Lewis, columnist for Bloomberg News, about the difference between a “calling” and a job. He had some very powerful insights about the differences. Here’s the article (it’s certainly... Read More
Tips for Empowerment
The Indomitable Donkey
This week, I had the great pleasure of speaking with writer extraordinaire, Janene Mascarella (www.janenemascarella.com), a successful contributor to many magazines that we know and love. We discussed what it takes to thrive in a creative field such as... Read More
Tips for Empowerment
Thriving Through This Financial Chaos
Greetings friends. Given the state of the economy today, women are asking me over and over, “What can I do in my professional life and career to help me deal with what may be coming down the pike for me,... Read More