In my role as a coach, I notice the working habits of my clients as they share their world with me. There is no difference between the habits of a corporate employee or a business owner, the unconscious patterns are the same. Most people are working too hard and the balance between work and personal time is sometimes non-existent. There’s too [...]

One of my business friends recently admitted she felt lost: “I’m a bit muddled about who I am these days. What do I call myself? Who am I really?” She’d been through a lot of change over the last two years. In order to unmuddle herself, she’d made a list of all the roles/identities that defined her in her business life. [...]

If you’ve ever been asked: What do you want your legacy to be? Then you will probably know how hard this question can be to answer… I was recently talking to someone in my mastermind group who was feeling lost and hoping to gain some clarity in the direction and focus of her life. She was looking outside herself at a [...]

You’ve worked so hard investing your time, energy, and money to create a coaching program or an offer for your coaching services. On launch day, you nervously wait and watch your inbox for engagement and sales, but nothing happens. No one buys. Or you only get one sign-up. Zero results can feel very demoralizing. Your mind is swamped with negative thoughts [...]

In my experience, most workaholics have a strong belief that their value is dependent upon what other people think of them. They certainly don’t set out with the intention to become a workaholic. Unconsciously they believe that their worth depends upon their success and being recognized for their achievements. They become deluded by their perception of the positive regard of [...]

Coaches are human beings too! …And we ALL get triggered by our clients sometimes! Coaches are not immune from emotional vulnerability.The challenge is… are we aware of it when it’s happening in the present moment? Coaching is a huge undertaking... As a coach, you have an intimate opportunity to be with someone on a journey of their inner and outer [...]

Have you ever thought about WHY you never do your shoulds? If I had been given a dollar every time someone used the word should in a coaching conversation over the years, I’d be an extremely rich woman! 🙂 Should is a commonly used word that appears in coaching conversations. It often indicates that we have an obligation or duty [...]

There are many times in my life when I’ve gotten things wrong and I’ve made mistakes:  I made a decision and the outcome was much less than I expected. I misunderstood a situation and responded in an inappropriate way. I got a different reaction to what I’d expected. I felt that I could have done much better. I didn’t listen [...]

Clients come to coaching for many reasons. Whatever their underlying intentions, goals, or dreams, all of the outcomes they are searching for involve change. …And all change involves some degree of risk. People have different relationships with risk and uncertainty. Some of us prefer stability and like to deal with what is known and manage risks so that there are [...]

If you’re a coach, I’m sure you’ve occasionally experienced a situation where your client may have said something or acted in a way that triggered you, and you unconsciously instantly reacted in the moment. After the session you regretted how you handled the situation. This happened to one of my coach-clients last week. Ben came to our coaching session with [...]

Last weekend I attended a Silent Retreat in North Carolina. At least twice a year I step back from the busy world and all its noise, open my heart and relax my busy mind to get back in touch with my true feelings. If you’ve ever attended a silent retreat or even tried to meditate you’ve probably experienced moments when [...]

Criticism is a natural part of life, especially when someone is stepping out and trying something new, or working on becoming a better version of themself. As we grow, the people around us struggle to make sense of how and why we are changing. They unconsciously worry about the impact of this change on them, as they are not changing. [...]

EVERYTHING BIG that I’ve ever achieved I have always started before I thought I was ready. I did it scared – I followed my intuition and grew into it along the way! I’ve always been an adventurer and risk-taker. Transition and transformation continue to be my life-long traveling companions. I recently was interviewed by the AMAZING Belinda Smith on her  [...]

My Dad wrote and illustrated a series of children’s stories about The Camblesforth Bunnies. He was proud of them and would share the latest story with me every time I visited him. He had a secret dream of becoming a published author. He told me one day that he was waiting for the right person to come along who would [...]

My business coaching clients are never short of ideas! I’ve even had clients have the idea that they should create an ideas business because they have so many! Having ideas isn’t the challenge. Implementing them is! We all have ideas, it’s not unique… sorry! You may see yourself as an Ideas Person. Ideas just pop out of your mind all [...]

In life, we judge other people by their actions: what they do, what they say, or how they act… yet we judge ourselves by our intentions. Think about this for a moment… People are how we experience them. They are their demonstrated behavior. Our intentions are unknown to others unless we communicate them. Without knowing someone else’s intentions all we [...]

Have you ever held something back and then wished you’d shared the truth sooner?Most of us feel uncomfortable in situations where we have to tell the truth. It’s our ego’s way of protecting ourselves.Telling the truth feels risky because we are fearful of what our imagination is feeding us. We might:hurt the other person’s feelings and make them uncomfortablelet them down [...]

I first came across the Enneagram when I attended a women’s retreat in Asheville, NC, USA many years ago. I identified as a Seven Type, and was very happy because this Enneatype appeared to have the most fun out of all of the nine numbers! I really didn’t need another personality assessment tool. I was already accredited with several other [...]

A few years ago I was called in to work with a team whose boss would always assume the worst in a situation. One day Jenny, one of the team, came to me emotional and confused because she was no longer being included in a project, and didn’t know why. She’d asked the project manager who told her the boss [...]