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From the blog…
from their lips
A few days ago I was speaking with a woman who’s on the fence about joining the virtual Visibility Capacity retreat and she expressed a concern to me. “I’ve only been following you for a little while, your words really resonate and I’m drawn to your work… I feel like I don’t know you well enough yet to know if I can trust that this will work for me. I’ve invested in a lot of stuff and didn’t get results. Do you think I could talk to other women who have attended the virtual retreat? I’m not offended at ALL...
too big for your britches
My client was on the phone, voice trembling. She’d hired me because she had a creative project she wanted to launch to her community, but had been resisting it for TWO YEARS! “I feel so bored with my business and like I don’t even know who I am or what I stand for anymore. I’m so foggy about it all,” she told me. That “foggy feeling” is a common “symptom” that appears when your intuition asks you to do something and you keep ignoring it out of fear. Eventually, your system rebels and you either get physically sick or you...
sorry but I’m calling you out
The strangest “phenomenon” has been coming up this week as I’ve been talking to many of you who are feeling deeply pulled to attend the virtual Visibility Capacity retreat. I’ve gotta show it to you in screenshots from emails I got. It’ll be easier to understand if I show it to you this way: Do you see what I’m talking about? “I’m feeling I’m not in the same league as most of your clients.” And “I never felt successful enough or established enough to work with you.” Okay, honesty time -- if you’ve felt this way too -- can you...
the danger of humdrum limbo
I had a conversation last year with a potential client that broke my heart. She had a business that was doing okay. But she knew it was time to go bigger. To be seen by even more people. And yet, she’d been stuck for three years in a humdrum kind of feeling about her business. That’s a long time to be feeling that way. And it’s actually dangerous to allow yourself to stay stuck or in a repetitive pattern for that long. Why? Because the longer you stay in a place of limbo, the more your confidence erodes. And the more your...
“too fat” and “too old”
All day Monday, I coached clients by phone. These womxn have varying backgrounds and levels of success from $50k in revenue a year to $1 million. Do you know what we talked about all day? FEAR OF BEING SEEN. As imperfect. As vulnerable. Fear that others were going to judge the new thing they are putting out there. That if they let themselves be FULLY seen or showed up online how felt best to them, no one would buy what they’re offering. Or their thoughts were “too different and controversial” to post. They’d get angry comments. Or they wouldn’t be...
uncomfortable AF
A picture of my friend & former client Lynne Hurdle Price and I. (and my dogs photobombed us lol) It’s almost time to say goodbye to 2019 and hello to a whole new year, where we’ll have new hopes, goals, and plans to go to our next level in our careers, businesses or lives. So I wanted to have a short, but potent, heart to heart with you about the most important thing you’ll need to remember as you make your plans to rock your next year. This might trigger some of you. That’s okay. We’ve got to let the stuff...
wrong question
Me with some of my beautiful clients during an in-person capacity retreat. Back in August, I was on the phone with an amazing woman who was interested in working with me. She’d been one of the founding members of a successful startup and was in the process of selling it. And now, it was time to create her next business. Except she was in a difficult dilemma I know you’ll relate to: “The last few years have been a whirlwind getting the company to where it is. I’ve worked so hard. I know I need to be working on my...
they tried to find the “dirty” in me
a picture I took shortly after our final convo, feeling like an elephant was taken off my shoulders! I went to go see the new Mr. Rogers film a few weeks ago. Have you seen it yet? I learned something HUGE about capacity that I want to share with you because I have a feeling it’ll be huge for you too. And don’t worry, there are no big spoilers in this blog if you haven’t seen it yet! The movie is told from the perspective of a reporter who interviewed Mr. Rogers at the peak of his fame. (For...
duct tape
Picture of me and clients in tea ceremony at a Capacity Retreat in my home. Last week I was scrolling through my Instagram account and I came across a series of posts from quite a few different women about the same topic: things falling apart or unraveling in their lives & businesses. Just a few months ago, as I was speaking with a woman who’d joined my new program, Capacity Shift, she shared with me she’d built up a successful business as a translator for big brands/corporations. But in the last year, she’d started to feel out of...
how i escaped the wildfire
On the left, me at the vet at 7:30 am & on the right, in a smoke mask sitting in my car doing phone calls. On Monday I had to rush one of my dogs to the vet at 7:30 am and pay an unexpected $300 bill because she had somehow scratched her cornea. My day was so packed with client calls, it was the only time I had to take her before I had to be back at 9 am to let the cleaning ladies in and jump on the phone. I barely had time for a shower. I...