'success' tagged blog posts in Career Bliss - Forbes Leadership

As I focus more on my success coaching work that helps women achieve their BIG dreams and visions, I’ve realized that the essential ingredients to this work are helping people understand with absolute, unabashed clarity exactly what their dream is, distill it down to the “right” essence, then birth it through steps that align with their passions, values, needs and wants.  To launch our big dreams, we need a continual...

In my current exploration of women’s leadership in all business arenas, and in researching how women are thriving in a wide range of professional settings, I had the pleasure of speaking recently with Aassia Haq, Chief Marketing Officer - MBO Partners and Former CEO - ALUMRISE, Inc.

Aassia is steeped in the business of supporting the success of independent consultants and solopreneurs through her work with MBO Partners, which...

In response to my Forbes, Huffington Post and AARP Work Reimagined posts, I hear one type of comment over and over again, more than any other, and it goes something like this: “I just don’t know what I want.  Despite all my efforts, I can’t figure it out what I want to do.”

I find this an amazing phenomenon - that so many Americans have lost touch with who...

For some time, I’ve been following inspiring women leaders, entrepreneurs, business movers-and- shakers, writers and others on the cutting edge of thought leadership, and I’m still awed and amazed at how much there is out in the world to be inspired by. 

In my line of work as a women’s career coach, executive trainer and writer, I’m fortunate to connect with women like Whitney Johnson and Judy Robinett who...

I’ve heard over and over in the past several years frequent reference to the idea that professional women aren’t as ambitious as men.   Disappointingly, I even heard Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook (whom I deeply admire) mention this reported “lack of ambition” in women on The Charlie Rose show recently. To Mr. Rose she declared, “Until women are ambitious as men, they’re not going to achieve as...

Hello! How’s your week going?  Great, I hope.

Personally, I’ve had a few hard knocks this week from several people who indicated they’d like to offer constructive feedback, but then proceeded to tear down and put down. 
 

Constructive or Destructive?  

It’s an interesting experience, to come open-hearted to someone to receive their feedback, thinking it will be a growing experience to hear their thoughts, only to discover that the input is not coming...

 This week, I had a fabulous conversation with Starla Sireno – Founder of www.Fearlessnessinc.com and the Fearless Women Entrepreneur Network – an empowering forum for women entrepreneurs in San Francisco and beyond, providing the knowledge and support women need to become fearless entrepreneurs. 

Starla and I both found so much validation and confirmation in sharing our honest and frank views about the coaching business, entrepreneurship, women’s challenges in launching their ventures to...

 Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them.  I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and...

 “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” –Winston Churchill

These past few years I’ve been connected with literally dozens of coaches who promise that, if you follow their work and their...

My 52 Mistakes (Or: How I’m Turning My Mess into a Message Every Day)

Bottom line – “Embracing and loving who I am and what I’ve done is not a fixed state – it’s a long work in progress.”

As many of my friends know, I’ve immersed myself in a 9-year life reinvention, and shifted from a miserable and chronically ill corporate professional to an author, consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who absolutely loves...