What is the question behind the question? It can feel very provoking when you are asked a difficult question in a public setting. You know that you can not be fully open about the answer because of the complexities of the nuances of the situation. So how do you deal with this scenario so that…
I feel like I have been waiting for 50 yrs for this!!! In the last couple of weeks, I have made several clients cry! A strange thing to admit on Social Media. They were crying in a good way. They had a speaking breakthrough and the emotion of it came out in tears. This week…
“Oh! I am not as bad as I thought!” I have a page of numbers in front of me. Rows and rows. They need to be entered into a spreadsheet. They have sat on the side of my desk for a week or more and I have periodically looked at them and my heart sinks….
A few years ago, my daughter’s school was looking for donations of professional services for a school raffle, I offered some speaker coaching. I didn’t know anything about the winners other than Dad had a successful business and mum was about to launch her own. What I didn’t know was just how successful the family…
In my old garden, the soil was clay, and I’d have to put all my weight into the garden fork to crack the surface it was an effortful and frankly demoralising task. In my new garden, the soil is really soft and loamy – it is easy to dig and turn over – it takes…
We swim in an ocean of feedback – I love this quote from Thanks for the Feedback. Our watches are even telling us if we have not moved enough, drunk enough water or slept long enough! Feedback and advice are inescapable and often conflicting. How do we manage it? Tara Mohr’s advice, from her 10…
We are looking at Rule 7 of Tara Mohr’s 10 rules for Brilliant Women. Don’t wait for your Oscar. Long story short – back in March I made a major pivot (along with the rest of the globe!) to accommodate training and coaching in the virtual space. I worked really hard, climbed many actual and…
There is a mathematical statement that says, If X then Y. This plays out psychologically too. If you have ever heard yourself or others saying, “When I get that promotion then I will…, or When I get that final qualification then I will…, or after I have been doing this a little bit longer then…
I have immense admiration for those who stand up for what is just, regardless of their personal safety and political norms. Today President Biden has resumed the project to replace the picture of previous president and slave owner Andrew Jackson with an escaped slave, turned Nurse and Spy for the Union, Harriet Tubman on the…
She was sitting on a bench. The first one to arrive. Nervous…no terrified. ‘What if’s’ running rampant in her head. Slowly others arrived; clearly here for the same reason. 16 places and a global application of 1000’s. All she can hear is her heart pounding in her ears. Until she hears a voice, her voice,…