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Knowing Yourself

Breakthroughs, Careers, Knowing Yourself, Most Powerful You Strengthen This One Thing First Before You Change Careers or Quit Your Job Part of the series “Accessing the Most Powerful Version of You” As my career coaching work has evolved over the years, I’ve trained my focus on helping mid- to high-level professionals who are at a decisive crossroads in their... Read More

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Advice, Knowing Yourself, Leadership, Thought Leadership, Women in Leadership You Won’t See Truly Great Leaders Engage In These 5 Behaviors Part of the Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” In the past eight years of writing this blog, and in my work as a career and leadership coach and podcaster, I’ve had the opportunity to interview hundreds of inspiring... Read More

Amazing Career Success, Breakthroughs, Career and Life Satisfaction Survey, Careers, Close Your Power Gaps, Empowerment, Finding Brave, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself, Most Powerful You, Support for Change, Wake Up Calls, Work You Love The Absolute Worst Thing To Do When You Want To Change Or Improve Your Career Part of Kathy Caprino’s new series “Accessing The Most Powerful Version of You” When I was in my most unhappy period at the end of my 18-year corporate career, I was the definition of “stuck.” At age 40, I... Read More

Careers, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself, Living Real, Women in Leadership The Raw Truth That We Refuse To Face About Women, Power and the Workplace Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Women, Leadership and Vision” As many of my readers know, I had an 18-year corporate marketing career that was very “successful” on the outside, but entirely unsuccessful on the inside. I faced a myriad... Read More

Careers, Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself, Work You Love The First 5 Things To Do When You Hate Your Career and Want a Change Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Finding Brave To Build a Happier Life and Career” Thousands of professionals are stuck in unhappy careers because they have a misguided belief that if they start exploring a new career, they’ll lose everything... Read More

Breakthroughs, Close Your Power Gaps, Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself, Leadership, Women in Business What’s Your Life Purpose? How To Recognize and Honor It In Your Life and Work It's not as complicated as people think to recognize their life purpose, and begin to honor it in all they do. Here's how. Read More

Breakthroughs, Close Your Power Gaps, Communication, Empowerment, Finding Brave, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself Why Chronically Talking About Your Past Will Keep You Stuck In It Continually dredging up your past will keep you stuck in it, rather than enable you to grow, heal and move on. Read More

Breakthroughs, Entrepreneurship, Finding Brave, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself 3 Questions To Ask Yourself When Everything You’ve Tried Has Failed Part of the series “Finding Brave To Build a Happier Life and Career” Throughout my life, I’ve experienced times when things were truly falling apart (or so it seemed), and nothing I did improved it or turned it around.... Read More

Knowing Yourself, Support for Change, Tips for Empowerment Give Yourself Some Much Needed Love on Mother’s Day (and Every Day) On this special day, be a loving mother to yourself, and tap into new ways to appreciate who you are. Read More

Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Knowing Yourself, Uncategorized You Truly Matter In This World, But Do You Realize It? Something REALLY powerful emerged today in my Amazing Career Project course. It was a discussion prompted by one of the members about “Do I really matter?” Wow…this is such a critical question that so many people, either consciously or... Read More

Advice, Finding Brave, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself 5 Easy Ways To Know When NOT To Listen To Advice You’re Getting Advice comes from all sorts of places. Learn 5 easy ways to discern if the advice you're getting is worthy of your consideration. Read More

Advice, Breakthroughs, Empowerment, Knowing Yourself Thinking of Working with a Career Coach: Here’s What You Need To Know Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Living and Working Better” One of the key reasons I decided to become a career coach 12 years ago was in response to a very bad experience I had with one, when I was... Read More

Breakthroughs, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Knowing Yourself, Support for Change 5 Clear Signs You Have A Narcissistic Wound To Heal How to identify quickly if the narcissism you experienced as a child created a narcissistic wound within you. Read More

Breakthroughs, Empowerment, Finding Brave, Knowing Yourself, success 5 Ways BIG Change Can Boost Your Self-Esteem, Happiness And Success Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Braving Up To Build Your Best Life” Often, when I’m working with my clients or course members, the concepts we explore together take on a brand new meaning given what’s going on in my... Read More

Brave Up, Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Following Your Dreams, Knowing Yourself The 6 Dominant Action Styles: How You Take Action And Why That’s Critical To Know To build your happiest and best life, you need to know yourself intimately, including how you like to take action. Here's how to tell. Read More