Challenges

Amazing Career Success, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change The Top 10 Things People Want In Life But Just Can’t Figure Out How To Get The top 10 things people want in life, and what's standing in their way of getting it. Read More

Challenges, Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Inspiration for Change, Leadership Are You Wrong (and Foolish) If You Don’t Follow The Advice of Renowned Experts In Your Field? We're bombarded daily with advice from "experts" on how to succeed. How can you tell which advice to follow, or discard? Here are 7 key ways. Read More

Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino How Sharing Your Life Challenges With Others Can Change the World I live in a small New England town that is home to only about 18,000 residents. As in many small towns, hundreds of children attend the public school system, play sports, and participate in art and music activities... Read More

Advice, Careers, Challenges, Feeling Your Best, Kathy Caprino, Tips for Empowerment Why I Didn’t Tell the Truth, and Why You Don’t Either When do you struggle to tell the truth? Here are my 10 reasons for a recent lack of truth-telling, and what these reasons may mean for you. Read More

Challenges Prayers for Newtown Like the rest of the world, I am completely heartbroken and devastated for my Connecticut neighbors in Newtown. As time unfolds and we try to make sense of this excruciatingly painful tragedy, so many of us (including me) are... 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

Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino The Top Six Reasons People Want to Leave Their Careers (Thrilled that this piece was published on Forbes.com last week!) As a career and executive coach, I’ve spoken with hundreds of professionals who’ve shared some version of, “I really want to leave my job and change my career, but... Read More

Books, Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Kathy Caprino, Support for Change, Women in Business The Myth of Career Bliss: Why Chucking Your Career Doesn’t Solve Your Problems I’ve spent eight years working with individuals to achieve successful professional growth, change, and reinvention. I know a good deal about the process personally too, as I’ve traversed a number of diverging career paths over the past 20 years,... Read More

Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Support for Change, Uncategorized What My Five Careers Have Taught Me: Top 10 Lessons of Career Reinvention I’ve significantly revised my career numerous times over my 25 years of working, and each time, I’ve learned some powerful, surprising lessons — about myself, my capabilities, perceptions, misconceptions, and about what it takes for me to attain what... Read More

Careers, Challenges, Empowerment, Kathy Caprino, success, Tips for Empowerment, Uncategorized The Top 6 Reasons People Want Out of Their Work I’ve recently become immersed in executive search work through my new role as Marketing VP for Synergy Partners USA – a specialized executive search firm based in Wilton, CT. I’m loving the new work — it helps me be of service both... Read More

Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Kathy Caprino, Women in Business, Women in Leadership Do America’s Employers Really Care about Women’s Issues? Last Thursday, I had a wonderfully powerful meeting with three inspiring colleagues who are authors affiliated with the publisher of my book Breakdown Breakthrough – Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Each of these folks has a breadth of knowledge and diversity of experience... 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

Breakthroughs, Challenges, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino See Progress – We Are Moving Forward I read this morning Rick Hanson’s beautiful newsletter “Just One Thing” – a year’s worth of weekly practices to help us grow in happiness, love and wisdom. This piece was about “Seeing Progress,” and it was a balm for... 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

Breakthroughs, Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Yes I Can Thinking A New Kind of Year Hello and Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were lovely, and you feel refreshed and excited about the New Year. What a challenging year 2010 was for so many, including me. In thinking about what I would like... 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