NEWSLETTERS
Playing possum
Ever heard of the phrase “playing possum”? It comes from the Virginia Opossum, who “plays dead” every time a potential predator is near. It looks like the picture above (that possum is fully alive). A few years ago I was talking to a client on the phone about her self-sabotaging patterns that came up every time…
Tinder drama
There’s this funny thing that happens on dating apps… I always notice that the people who put “no drama” or a “drama-free” person in their profiles are the people who are the BIGGEST drama queens/kings. Ever notice that? When I was in my twenties, I used to do the same thing. I’d talk up a…
small fires
Ever seen one of Queen Elizabeth’s “addressing the nation” speeches? She doesn’t usually give them (the last one she did was during World War II). But she did give one when the pandemic broke out, which was a really big deal. And watching it was watching a master in action. I was reading an analysis…
Pregnant or not
I walked into his office sure I was going to end up paralyzed or worse, dead. My first time visiting a chiropractor and all the doctors in my family who didn’t “believe” in chiropractic were texting me horror stories of adjustments gone wrong. But I had this soul-hunch I needed to be there. I had…
They don’t mean you well
You might have seen a few days ago that I was featured in Forbes this week. I was interviewed on the Four Reasons You’re Afraid To Be The Face Of Your Brand and shared my top four tips on how to get over that fear and own your visibility. This was a happy accomplishment for…
Disappointment carousel
Ever had this experience? You create a new program, a new product, or a new service, you open it up to the world and one of two things happens: Hardly anyone buys it Or lots of people buy it, but every other time you offer it less and less people buy it. In the first…
How dare she
Gina hired me because she had a terrible fear of raising her prices. This fear was SO paralyzing, she’d been charging the same prices for five years. Every time she tried to say the higher price to a potential client on the phone, her throat would close and she’d literally choke on the words. So…
Total spiral
Oh yeah, by the time she got on the phone with me she was spiraling. My client, let’s call her Betty, in the course of one week, had: one person try to stop payments for her coaching program another client had managed to start a “mini-mutiny” in her group coaching program and turned two other…
I can’t with this.
I’ve been seeing a lot of people “battle it out” on social media in the last week about “what we should be doing during this time.” On one side of the arena are the people saying tone-deaf and privilege-unaware things like “if you don’t come out of this pandemic with a new skill or having…
Stop it.
A few weeks ago a friend asked me “how have you stayed so centered? Aren’t you worried about the ‘unknowns’ coming in the next few months?” (Don’t worry, this email isn’t going to turn into a self-congratulatory vanity show. Keep reading because this email is about YOU.) My friend is successful, but she’s taken a…