As I’ve mentioned, I am writing a memoir. As I write and revise, pieces move in and out of the draft. I wrote this segment on the evolution of my name a few months ago. While many of the aspects of it will be in the memoir, they won’t be strung together in an essay …
I had a conversation recently with a dear friend and colleague Susana Rinderle about the difference between entrepreneurship and freelancing. After our conversation, I went looking for more information about the difference and I’m so glad I did. Seth Godin explained the difference in this video. This one sentence articulated the clarified an issue I’ve circled around for years: “Freelancers …
I worked with several clients this week and although the specific issues they were working with were different, the general topic was similar. All of them are in a period of uncertainty, primarily related to their career. They are exploring: They live in different parts of the world and work in different industries, but they …
17 years ago this month, I was packing up my life in Tucson. My house had been sold as had most of my belongings. What I still owned fit into my old blue Subaru Outback and a small storage unit. My partner and I separated. I wasn’t clear what was going to happen with our …
Those experiencing intense personal and spiritual transformation often find themselves wrought with fear, doubt, and resistance. Why? Because life is filled with uncertainty and that’s how we humans respond to uncertainty. It’s that simple. Relying on intuition and faith can help one navigate uncertainty and engage more fully with the transformational journey. When humans undergo …
As I was revising my website, I put a call out to friends and colleagues via Facebook to hear their names for intuition. Here’s a word cloud of their responses. What’s your name for intuition? How do you differentiate between intuition (or whatever you name it) and ego or personality? In some ways, it doesn’t …
As a coach, I was trained to ask empowering questions. Questions that made my clients pause and go deeper; identifying some awareness or understanding that lies just underneath the radar. Whether asked sweetly and with care or sharply, with laser-like precision, empowering questions get to the heart of the matter. One of the most powerful …
I spent a lot of 2013 diligently engaging intuition and faith. Most mornings, I listened for guidance – ways to spend my time that would be for the highest good of the Universe. I practiced trusting that what I heard, no matter how odd, would turn out OK when I acted on it. The majority …
