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Advice, Breakthroughs, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, success 10 Essential Ways Being More Positive Enhances Your Career and Your Life As a former corporate executive, then trained marriage and family therapist and in my career and leadership coaching work, I’ve researched for over 17 years what makes some people highly successful interpersonally and in business, and others doomed to... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Men and Women, Wake Up Calls 10 Ways to Be Better, Not Bitter Through Deep Challenge Working as a therapist and career coach over these past eight years, I’ve seen what life can do to people. I’ve observed deep trauma and crisis, such as when a beloved spouse abandons his/her family for another lover, exclaiming... Read More

Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Kathy Caprino, Leadership, success, Women in Business, Women in Leadership The Wrong Kind of Help – Six Key Traits of “Help” that Hurts As an empowerment researcher, I’ve studied for eight years what constitutes “helpful” help versus advice or counsel that diminishes and demeans, or sends you in the wrong direction. The sad news is that thousands of so-called “helpers” in our... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Marketing Support, Small Business, Uncategorized, Women in Business Why “Good” Marketing Advice Can Lead You Astray A significant number of my awesome coaching and consulting colleagues and friends across the country have shared with me in the past year that they’ve hired outside marketing help with disappointing (or disastrous) results. Despite finding “experts” who seem... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Empowerment, Kathy Caprino, Marketing Support, success Why We Find “Make Money Quick!” Promises Such a Turn-off In speaking to many of my coaching and consulting friends in the past few months, I’ve noticed that the folks I’m most connected with — those with whom I share the most emotional, spiritual and behavioral common ground –... Read More

Advice, Challenges, Empowerment, Featured, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, My 52 Mistakes Mistake #3 – Letting the “Pendulum Effect” Rule My Life Hi Friends, Happy to share my latest vblog on my Mistake #3 – Letting the “Pendulum Effect” Rule My Life – another installment of My 52 Mistakes. This mistake is all about waiting too long to make change, resisting... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Kathy Caprino, success, Support for Change, Tips for Empowerment Get Over Yourself and Get Going Hi Friends – happy to share that More.com published my piece “Get Over Yourself and Get Going” today – about the secret sauce to real, heartfelt and authentic success. I’m not talking here about the kind of success that... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Kathy Caprino, Living Real, Marketing Support, Powerful Self-Marketing, Uncategorized The Top 10 Things Coaching Marketers and Training Schools Won’t Tell You This week, I had a fabulous conversation with Starla Sireno – Founder of www.Fearlessnessinc.com and the Fearless Women Entrepreneur Network – an empowering forum for women entrepreneurs in San Francisco and beyond, providing the knowledge and support women need... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Careers, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Marketing Support, Powerful Self-Marketing, Wake Up Calls What To Do When Speaking About Your Work is Hard This week, I had a fascinating marketing coaching session with a woman who shared with me her difficulty in speaking about her work. She revealed that, every time she discusses what she does for a living, one of two... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Marketing Support, success, Uncategorized, Wake Up Calls The 12 Hidden Crises of Entrepreneurial Women Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and... Read More

Advice, Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Living Real, Marketing Support, success, Women in Business Why Million-Dollar Coaching Promises Should Make You Leery “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” – Winston Churchill These past few years I’ve been connected with literally dozens of coaches who... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, My 52 Mistakes, Women in Business My 52 Mistakes Project – Mistake #52 – The Biggest Hi Friends – happy to share the second installment of my project “My 52 Mistakes” – a social media and research project aimed at providing an open, authentic forum for women to explore, understand and grow from their biggest mistakes... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Levels of Disempowerment, Powerful Self-Marketing, success, Women in Business 7 Reasons You Hate Marketing – And How to Learn to Love It In ramping up my marketing consulting work with women consultants, practitioners, and entrepreneurs these past months, I’ve heard these words over and over: “I hate marketing.” or, more specifically… “I hate promoting myself.” It’s an amazing thing to observe... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Careers, Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Inspiring Thoughts, Kathy Caprino Why Telling the Truth is a Powerful Career (and Life) Strategy I’ve been stunned lately with the power of telling the truth – the raw, uncensored truth. It’s such a release, relief, and a joy to let the truth rip, rather than wasting so much psychic energy “spinning” the truth... Read More

Advice, Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiring Thoughts, Kathy Caprino, Living Real, success, Support for Change 5 Top Mistakes to Avoid in Your Career Reinvention After spending nine years reinventing myself from a miserable and chronically ill corporate VP to women’s career and executive coach, marketing consultant, author, speaker and women’s work-life expert, I’ve made a good number of huge mistakes and missteps that... Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Featured, Inspiration for Change, Inspiring Thoughts, Kathy Caprino, Living Real, Yes I Can Thinking My 52 Mistakes Video Blog Launches Hi Friends – very happy to announce that my 52-week video blog on “My 52 Mistakes” launches today. Here’s the video: Kathy Caprino’s “My 52 Mistakes” Video Blog #1 I’d love to get this going and offer a large,... Read More