On this last day of 2011, as we prepare for a rocking 2012, I am tremendously proud to celebrate and share the people I have been lucky enough to work with this year. Clients came from individual coaching and programs and classes. While I served over 400 people, given the nature of my work, many [...]
Before I close up shop for the year, I had a tiny bit of advice for any awkward moments around the holidays. I hope they help. Feel free to write them on flash cards and pull them out at opportune moments. You define your own success. Don’t worry about how others define theirs. Laughing with [...]
As my last working week of the year draws to a close, I wanted to share a final video in the 2012 planning series to help you get the new year off to a productive, profitable and enjoyable start. This one has nothing to do with flip charts, spreadsheets or action items, it has to [...]
Some of the most fun I had this year (well, that I can blog about anyway) was delivering a class called Power Teaching to a large group of creative, talented and enthusiastic entrepreneurs. I wanted to share a key takeaway from the class, that I have applied over and over again in the two and [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Koren Motekaitis, a good friend and former client who has a radio show called “How She Does It.” One of the reasons that Koren and I really connect is that we both have backgrounds in sport coaching in addition to being life coaches. She runs [...]
It was around August 15, 2008 and I should have been in the process of finishing my book. A Word document stared me in the face with a bunch of chapters filled with random blog posts, quotes, disconnected paragraphs and a few usable pages. I felt like one of those poor souls on the Hoarder [...]
It is 3am and you wake up suddenly, hearing the beating of your heart echoing in your ears. The clock ticks slowly by your bed, and darkness blankets your windows. “How am I going to do this?” you say to yourself. Finding a way to make your mortgage payment, living through a tense day at [...]
I have been feeling a bit of angst around the Interwebs from business owners who are brewing with ideas at the end of this year, but do not quite know how to organize them into the shape of a marketing plan for 2012. To get you started, I wanted to share two tools that I [...]
When I used to teach the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira, new students would come in for their first class and watch the more advanced students doing flying kicks and ariel cartwheels. “Wow, how long before I can do that?” some would ask. “Oh, in a few thousand push ups and sit ups,” I would [...]
The brilliant, amazing, talented and wacky crew from Lift Off 4, In Portland, OR August, 2011. Photo by Abe Cajudo. Have you ever been so proud of something that your heart feels like bursting? That is how I feel about the community of people Charlie Gilkey and I have worked with in four Lift Off [...]
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