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Purple Circle and Davis Nguyen have built a great resource in the Career Coaching Secrets podcast, interviewing different coaches to learn what has worked for them, and where they are still looking to improve. Check out my appearance below!

While I welcome new coaches (humanity needs more people who serve with presence), Jerry Colonna shares a wonderful reflection that coaching is about something more than making money – it’s a calling, a vocation, a way of being. There are many people who call themselves coaches who never explore their own presence, nor seek to…

I had a great conversation with Alyssa Nolte about taking control of your job by learning to say no to the tasks that are draining you. Your manager and coworkers will always ask you to do more and take on more, and it’s your responsibility to shape your job by saying yes to the energizing…

Your “intuition” is just your past. If you want to create a different future, you have to get uncomfortable and go somewhere unfamiliar. “Intuition” is really just your nervous system getting trained on a pattern until it no longer feels surprising – it just feels right. When I sang in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus,…

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a guide to making difficult decisions? Especially if that guide was based on what worked for you, specifically? Robert Glazer’s book, The Compass Within, helps you create such a guide through a values discovery exercise (the subtitle is “A Little Story About the Values That Guide Us”). The…

Your industry is your destiny. Your CEO is your culture. These were two gems of wisdom I learned from Patrick Pichette, CFO of Google at the time, in a fireside chat when he was asked for career advice. The industry you’re in sets your operating model and your opportunities. He had felt that acutely coming…

What have you been avoiding? The task that you know how to do, but just can’t seem to get started on? For me, it’s sales and marketing. I have read the books, I have hired the advisors, and I know what to do, but I just can’t make myself do it. So what’s stopping me?…

If you commit to an impossible goal with an unreasonable deadline, what would you have to do differently today? This is the challenge raised by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson in their book, The Science of Scaling. The book lays out a cohesive strategy to, as the subtitle states, “Grow Your Business Bigger and…

I always enjoy my conversations with MaryAnn Means-Dufrene, MSHRM, MPA so it was a delight to chat with her on The Collective Growth Podcast: Inner Work. We covered a lot of ground: — how hearing and learning a concept is not the same as embodying it — connecting our experiences as parents with the leadership…

Most people aren’t stupid or evil. They just live in a different world with different assumptions than you do. If someone’s behavior doesn’t make sense, it usually means you’re missing a key belief, incentive, or context that would make it logical in their world. I like to ask myself: “What would have to be true…