Learn the Benefits of Approaching Life as an Experiment and Overcoming Perfectionism and Self-Doubt — I’m a life coach in 2023, so I have to use plenty of metaphors. It’s a rule. I don’t question it. And my absolute favorite one is building the plane while flying it. It’s a metaphor that perfectly captures the essence of starting something new without having all the details…

How to Stop Trivializing Your Accomplishments and Start Giving Yourself the Credit You Deserve — Okay, real talk. Are you trivializing your accomplishments? It’s a common tendency that so many of my coaching clients have and I want to help you break free from it. You set a goal, dream, or project that looks like crossing an ocean. It’s daunting, challenging, and full of unknowns…

How I’m Confronting My Fears and Prioritizing My Health, Finances, and Ambitions — Today is my 47th birthday, and I’m slightly terrified. Not of some vain fear of aging or anything like that, but something more personal. You see, on July 14, 1996, my mother died, and that was the day immediately after her 48th birthday. …

Ways to Stop Consuming and Start Implementing — Are you an ambitious professional who is always seeking out new information and courses to improve your skills and knowledge? Have you found yourself stuck in a cycle of constantly buying and consuming infocrack without actually implementing what you learn? If so, it’s time to step away from the infocrack…

How being a Recovering Valedictorian is holding you back — I was really good at school. I loved the clear parameters. Here’s the syllabus. Here are the expectations. Do this, this, this, and that and you will receive your grade. Getting an A in this class felt like something I could choose to do. And I did, most of the…

Why You Don’t Need to Keep Searching — Are you tired of trying to predict the future before making a decision? Do you spend hours, days, or even weeks trying to figure out the “right” choice, only to end up feeling even more uncertain? If so, it’s time to stop searching for the “right” choice…because spoiler alert: there’s…

more ease, less noise — I want MORE: more writing, more publishing, more time behind a microphone, more focus, more productivity, more confidence to ask for bigger opportunities, more recognition of my badassery. I want more adventure, more essentialism, more ease and comfort, more morning cuddles, more afternoon teas, more evening walks with our new puppy, more intentionality. And I want LESS: …

There is nothing wrong with you. — Okay. Time for me to come out of the closet…err, again. I’m a life coach who is not spiritual. Yep. It’s true. Hope you still love me. And before you stop reading and think me a hater, please hear me out. I’m not anti-spirituality. I make no qualms sharing that…

Essential life lessons learned in 2022 — As a life coach, I need to write one of these 2022 listicle articles or they might revoke my blogging privileges (and take away my toaster oven). All joking aside, it was truly wonderful to reflect on the lessons that have been most beneficial to me this year. Perhaps they…