Your Business Growth Plan (How the Magic 10:1 Ratio Works)
After over twenty years of owning my own business, I will share with you the Magic 10:1 Ratio I wish I had understood when I started my business. Your Growth Plan: 10-1 Ratio When asked how I started my business, I joke that I started my business on faith,...
Letting Go vs. Holding On: How Do You Make the Right Choice?
A young child asked a woman how old she was. She answered, "39 and Holding.” The child thought for a moment, and then said, "And how old would you be if you let go?" Scary thought. I don’t know about you all but I have found this “Letting Go vs. Holding On” to be a...
Change is Good: Lean Into the Pain & Support, Don’t Enable
As a coach, course creator, or CEO, you are often asking your clients or employees to go through change and change is often rewarding, but difficult. Lean into the Pain As a mediator helping teams process through conflict, I had a saying, “Lean into the Pain.” I got...
Our Words Train Our Brains: I Can’t Help It is Powerlessness
There are four words in the English language, I hate the most. It’s these words: “I can’t help it.” I literally shutter when I hear it. Think of your brain (and all human brains) like clay that can be sculpted with small incremental shifts—which will then pivot your...
Hero & Human: The Paradoxes of Leadership Communication
The Leadership Paradox Successful leadership is the right mix of opposite characteristics, thus, the Leadership Paradox. Leaders are required to navigate a fast-moving freeway between being a Superhero on the one hand and a Real Human on the other. It is a delicate...
You Make Me So Mad! How Emotion & Belief Feed Off Each Other
You Make Me Sooooo Mad! Have you ever told someone, "You make me so mad?" Of course you have! We all have. In my speeches, I often ask audiences this question and I ask individuals in the audience to raise their hand if they have ever said this. Most, but not all,...
Choose Your 3 Core Values and Practice Them Like Ben Franklin
Consciously Define Your 3 Core Values & Consciously Practice Them Groucho Marx, the famed comedian said, “Those are my principles and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.” The reason that’s funny is because principles are bedrock values—ones that you live...
Protect Your Energy, Business & Sanity: Avoid 1 Bad Person
There is one smart choice based on one simple truth that will save you thousands of hours, dollars, and frustrations in your business, personal life, and inner life. When I did team mediation, I always wondered how one negative person could have so much influence over...
FACE YOUR FEARS: 4 Key Ways to Be Set Free (& Stay That Way)
Facing Your Fears can be the most liberating choice you ever make. Kathy Kliner was attacked in the Chi Omega house by Ted Bundy. She was one of the ones who survived. She said "After I got attacked, I was afraid of men. It was something that I didn't want...
The Writing Strategy of a 72-Year-Old (& How It Boosted Her Confidence)
Pelham is from the United Kingdom and at 72, she started blogging and writing. She started because, in her own words, "I was left sick and somewhat disabled and quite frankly, bored!" A young friend called Lauren encouraged her to write. Lauren "sat at my new...