Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Decoding "The Secret", Empowerment, Feeling Your Best, Following Your Dreams, Living Real, success, Support for Change, Yes I Can Thinking
Deliberate Creation – Are You Aware of What You’re Creating?
I’m a long-time student of the powerful messages of Esther and Jerry Hicks and Abraham. I love their teachings because the concepts and insights about creating a joyous life ring very true to me and have been highly beneficial... Read More
Support for Change
Careers, Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Support for Change, Uncategorized
Can You Make a Good Living Being a Life Coach?
Running a coaching and consulting company dedicated to helping women achieve breakthrough in their lives and work, I meet thousands of folks each year who want to reinvent, many of whom are considering launching a coaching or consulting practice,... Read More
Empowerment, Support for Change, Uncategorized
Why Aren’t We Taking Action to Get the Help We Need?
Today, I was chatting with my friend and colleague Beth Leas who runs a fabulous holistic health care center in CT called the Total Life Care Center. In her work and her business, she supports hundreds of other... Read More
Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Are You Having “Palate Fatigue?”
Yesterday, I met with a new friend, JoAnn LoGiurato, Founder of Dancing on Grapes (http://www.dancingongrapes.com), who delivers empowering, educational (and totally fun!) programs and events designed to educate and empower women in their knowledge and experiences of wine. ... Read More
Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change, Women in Leadership
What Employers Can (and Must) Do To Support Women at Work
What are the 12 common crises working women face today, and what can employers do to help working women face these challenges effectively?
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Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Men vs. Women at Work, Support for Change
Women Bullying Women at Work: Can We Reverse the Trend?
In my 18-year corporate life, I experienced a great deal of bullying from women, most of which came from female bosses and a handful of “equals” in the political hierarchy. These experiences were traumatic, and I had no... Read More
Advice, Careers, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Top Five Mistakes to Avoid in Career Reinvention
After spending eight years reinventing myself from a corporate VP to an entrepreneur, women's career and life coach, author, speaker and women’s work-life expert, I’ve made a good number of huge mistakes and missteps that have tripped me up,... Read More
Empowerment, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
The Power of Community for Women
Community for women is powerful. I see this phenomenon frequently – women may feel completely stuck and alone (“broken down” as I call it) in their problems, but when they make the commitment to take a small step... Read More
Advice, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Support for Change
Surviving Tough Times: Moving Forward Despite the Obstacles
How do we keep moving forward with optimism and energy when what's appearing in our lives is crushingly challenging?
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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
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
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
Support for Change
Getting Support in Times of Change
As a coach and a therapist, I work with hundreds of people each year who are going through dramatic change of some kind or another, and are in need of support from their families, friends, colleagues and others. We... Read More