Tag: Success
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Does Your Business Design Include Emotional Sustainability?
In my business I see clients abusing themselves with what appear to be highly driven and success-gaining behaviors. They strive; hustle; they bust their asses; they work themselves silly; and yet, no matter what, they don’t get relief. Do you know why? Because the solution is not to do more work or strive for more…
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Why Looking Back Helps Your Business Move Forward
We need to take an honest look at our life experiences and how they support us, how they can create challenges, and even create a pathway towards change, we do not drop our baggage at the door when we start a business, take a job, or enter into a relationship. It is wise to look…
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You can’t just do the work once and forget about it!
I think too often we don’t give ourselves the time and space to really create a bigger picture of what we want in our business or in our lives, for that matter. The creation of our business first comes from a deep WHY and then gets buried by the HOW. If we took a moment…
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Is Your Business a Road to Redemption?
Is Your Business a Road to Redemption? Have you created your business to be a road to redemption? If you have created it for that outcome how will you know when you are redeemed? Read on and let me explain what I mean by this question it is one that I have been pondering…
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Why Looking Back Helps Your Business Move Forward
My response to the question “Why do I have look back at painful experiences to help my business?” Triggers can be tricky things. If you feel overwhelmed by this article, walk away. Take care of yourself. I have been interviewing small business owners and entrepreneurs who have identified having some kind of trauma that they believe…
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How #metoo Experiences Affect Female Founders & The Businesses They Run
If the vast majority of women have a #metoo story about sexual abuse, assault, or unwanted advances, how does that affect the growing numbers of women who are starting businesses today? How does this common but all-too-personal trauma impact the success and health of female entrepreneurs? I have been working with female entrepreneurs for several…
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The pressure to earn money, can often repel it!
“With college around the corner and my super slow summer workload, I’m beginning to freak out.” This was a recent client conversation. I could hear the stress and anxiety in her voice. I asked some questions in the hopes of shifting some anxiety and providing some relief. Was her eighteen year old ready for college?…
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Why I Don’t Want You To Fake It Until You Make It!
I used to be a clinical supervisor for a methadone clinic, and I have a vast amount of experience with addictions. I would say 80% of my direct practice had some kind of treatment of addictions at its core. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a client say “ Fake…
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Nothing is free..can you afford the real price?
Have you ever gotten free samples at Costco or Whole Foods? Come on, you know you have. In fact, I know some people who take their lunch break and nosh on free samples. It is OK I don’t judge. But I do want to ask you a question? How many times did you actually buy…
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7 Steps Towards Hope and Healing Post Election
This is not a political blog.I am reluctant to invite the energy of politics and all that comes with it into my little blog bubble. But what do you do when your friends, family, and clients ask you with shaky voices, so what happens on Wednesday? They know that no matter who is elected, that…
