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What Do You Really Want - a Job or a 'Calling'?
Knowing what you want in your life and career is the most important step to achieving it. So what do you want – a job or a “calling,” and are you prepared to get it?

6 Essential Steps to Career Breakthrough: Navigating Through Change Successfully

There are so many people today in dramatic career and life transition, and also thousands of coaches and consultants offering help. I’ve discovered, however, that recommending simple, straightforward tactics and strategies does not work unless there has been a true breakthrough in the individual’s thinking and behavior that allows them to become unstuck, and to embrace new possibilities where constraints and limitations were seen before. What do you need to do to create your own breakthrough, and make your goals and visions in life and work a reality? Here are 6 essential steps to breakthrough:

Are You Empowered in Your Career? 12 Strategies to Gain Strength, Confidence, and Clarity

Professional women have made tremendous strides in terms of drawing on our strengths, abilities, and confidence in the workplace in recent years, but it’s clear that we have a long way to go before we are using our female power with self-assurance and ease.Professional women have made tremendous strides in terms of drawing on our strengths, abilities, and confidence in the workplace in recent years, but it’s clear that we have a long way to go before we are using our female power with self-assurance and ease.

Breakdown Breakthrough

Overcoming the 12 hidden crises of working women Are you a professional woman longing for a radical change? You are not alone. According to my research—a yearlong national study in partnership with the Esteemed Woman Foundation—seven out of 10 women today, particularly those in their middle years, say they are facing a major turning point in their professional lives. After devoting years to building successful careers, they feel that their professional lives and identities no longer work. As a result, most are facing at least one of 12 hidden work-life crises, including chronic health problems, financial bondage, and painful losses of the “real me.”

Breaking Down - It makes breakthrough possible.

ARE YOU A PROFESSIONAL A woman longing for a change? You're not alone. Seven out of 10 women today are facing a major turning point. After devoting years to building successful careers, they feel that their lives and identities no longer work. As a result, most are facing at least one of 12 hidden work-life crises, including chronic health problems, financial bondage, and painful losses of the "real me."

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, or other small business of their own. They long to transition into coaching for solid reasons, and many come with great, top-level experience. This article will explain some points to consider if you are contemplating a career move to becoming a life coach.

Getting Support in Times of Change

As a coach and a psychotherapist, I’ve worked 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 often discuss what healthy support is, and how it feels when we receive support that gives us the strength and confidence to persevere. What does helpful support look like?

Has Your Wake-Up Call Arrived?

A wake-up call is a resounding signal received that change is necessary in your life. Often we get this type of call when a crisis or deeply challenging situation has emerged. A wake-up call is a resounding signal received that change is necessary in your life. Often we get this type of call when a crisis or deeply challenging situation has emerged. Clients ask me, "What is crisis in our lives? How can we tell we're heading into crisis, versus simply going through a really bad patch?" What are the signs of "breakdown," as I tend to call it?

Naming and Claiming Your True Niche
In overcoming many challenges in finding my true niche, I am now focused on helping others do the same. Throughout these many years, I’ve observed what it takes shine in your chosen area – how to be one of the best in your selected niche, and be confident enough to market yourself powerfully and rise above the competition.

Taking Back Power Back Tips For Restoring Balance and Focus

Since my book published this Fall, I've been inundated by activity around launching it, publicizing it, and speaking about it. I enjoy much of this activity, as it involves marketing and promotion, which I'm comfortable with (it was my professional specialization in my corporate life, and also it fits my "socializer" personality). I also believe in the book's messages, so it's a joy to speak about it. But what I didn't realize was that, day by day, hour by hour, I began to feel less and less powerful, and more and more focused on "outer" events and accomplishments, and things beyond my control, rather than inward milestones.

The Soft & Hard Sides of Discipline A Brief Look at Empathic Parenting
Have you ever had difficulty determining when “enough is enough” with your child? Or questioned when you should draw the line rather than be flexible and give in to his requests? Have you ever experienced the pain and confusion of knowing your child wants softness from you, but feared that this softness will somehow be “bad” for him/her in some way?

Today’s Women at Work have Unique Opportunities

Here’s a news flash: Women are poised to surpass men on the nation’s payrolls for the first time in American history. According to a recent report by the New York Times, four out of five jobs lost in the current U.S. recession belong to men—a consequence of the surge in layoffs within distressed, male-dominated industries, such as manufacturing and construction. This emerging workplace trend may ultimately be a momentous boon to women—shifting their power and influence, both at home and on the job. It also represents a new call to action for women—and employers.

Increasing Your Success Isn't As Hard As You Think It Is

As a career coach and researcher of working women’s work-life issues, I’ve embarked on a national research study on Women Succeeding Abundantly, in order to learn first-hand the essential ingredients in thinking, beliefs, choices, and behaviors that create and maintain “knock your socks off success” in women. I want to learn from women who can raise their hands today and say, “Yes! I feel tremendously successful on my terms, and am able to live life joyfully and with great gusto."

5 Reasons You're Miserable at Work and What to Do About It
Whether you are a corporate professional, self-employed or in transition, if you need to find a different way to work, don’t worry. Help is on the way! And you’re definitely not alone. Below are what I’ve found to be the top five reasons so many women are dissatisfied and unfulfilled at work, along with concrete tips to revise your situation and change course today.

How Career Coaching Gets It Wrong: Tips For Choosing a Career Coach Who Won’t Waste Your Money
What are the easiest ways to spot an ineffective career coach who won’t be helpful in moving you forward? This week I heard from a lovely woman in another state who shared with me a story about a career coach she hired this year. This coach, in the end, was of no help at all. I have to say, if I’ve heard this once, I’ve heard it one hundred times.

The 5 “M’s” Necessary for Entrepreneurial Women’s Success
In launching my new Breakthrough Vision Marketing division that offers women entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, and practitioners marketing support to achieve success in their ventures, I’ve discovered some telling statistics about the success entrepreneurial women have achieved thus far, and the challenges women continue to face in creating financial success in their endeavors.

Why Million-Dollar Coaching Promises Should Make You Leery

There are many more ineffective, self-serving coaches who aren’t capable of helping you reach your high goals. If you’re broke, and are told you can go from that to a millionaire in a year because you’re following this one coach’s program (and not doing all the inner and outer work it truly takes to be abundantly successful), then you’ll be sorely disappointed and waste a great deal of time and money in the process.

The 12 Hidden Crises of Entrepreneurial Women

Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and for all.

The Top 10 Things Coaching Marketers and Training Schools Won’t Tell You
I’m sharing below what I know to be true about the coaching business, based on not only my personal experience, but also my honest and authentic conversations and connections with hundreds of coaches nationwide and in other countries.


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