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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

Challenges, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Marketing Support, success, Women in Business Why Asking for Money Is So Hard I’ve been watching my clients – and myself – this past year around the experience of charging fees, asking for payment, suggesting folks re-enroll in our programs, etc., and here’s what I’ve found… Very few people like asking for... 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, 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