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Announcement: 2025 Top Coaches in America Award
As a professional certified coach, I am honored and privileged to be a recipient of the 2025 Top Coaches in America award.
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Career: The Ups and Downs of Expectations
In Norton Juster’s story, The Phantom Tollbooth, the main character Milo learns: “Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going.” Understanding what fulfills you and what you value most is the first step in aligning your expectations to make a change.
Career: Assets and Liabilities
Do you know what lights you up and depletes you? Your assets, “the strengths you put to use,” and liabilities, “what’s expected of you with little return,” can impact your overall work satisfaction. Having a clear picture of these can help you navigate where to focus your energy and strike a healthy balance.
Announcement: Certified Sparketype® Advisor
I’m delighted to share that I’m now a Certified Sparketype® Advisor. The Sparketype® assessment is a powerful tool that clarifies what makes you come alive and what depletes you. Having this insight empowers you to align your work with your core drivers and create strategies to offset what requires a heavy lift.
Personal Branding: Four Fs to Reinvention
As humans, we have this remarkable capacity for reinvention. We can flex, adapt, and change for numerous reasons, from survival to fun. The impact can be minimal to startling—so much so that we look and seem entirely new. To reinvent your personal brand, here are four Fs to consider.
Personal Branding: How Others Perceive Us
One of the fascinating aspects of human behavior is how our perceptions shape what we see and don’t see. From a personal branding angle, this equates to aligning your behavior and actions situationally. In this blog post, I share a few areas to consider to take out the guesswork for others so you can present yourself and your brand as you’d like both to be understood.
Embracing Our Instinctual Patterns of Behavior
I love “a-ha moments” that make me reflect, “how could I have not seen that before?” Now I know why—I never looked or provided myself ample space to do so. The Enneagram framework invites us to tune into ourselves and teaches us how to adopt more positive and healthy responses.
Five Techniques to Live More Congruently
I find that I’m more at peace when my internal system—mind, body, and heart—are in congruence. It takes an intense commitment to eliminate conditioned behaviors in order to change. To find more harmony and balance, try out these five self-care techniques.
Listening with Positive Intention
When we think about communication, we often focus on what we want to say, our delivery, and engaging or influencing others. Yet to be truly effective, we also need to consider how we will listen. Here I focus on two productive ways to demonstrate your interest in what others have to say.
Establishing a Safe Space for Courageous Communication
As humans, we all have the innate desire to be seen, heard, and appreciated. Here are some ways to foster strong connections and encourage courageous conversations.
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