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While working on developing products and services for the coming year, it occurred to me that I needed to ask a number of questions of the women I serve or hope to serve before I can create a workshop, retreat, e-book, or any other product that is spot on. So I began to do just that, and have spent the past couple of months talking with women all across the corporate...

When I first began feeling the rumblings that I wanted to change careers and follow my bliss, I continually chided myself for entertaining such “pie-in-the-sky” thoughts at my age. I was 41.

When I wasn’t sticking pins in my own balloon, I was freaking out about what exactly I’d actually DO for a living if I took the plunge and struck out in...

This week we celebrated World Gratitude Day, which was launched in 1965 at the International East-West Center in Hawaii during a Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by meditation guru Sri Chinmoy. Those in attendance, including delegates and high-ranking officials from more than a dozen countries around the world, pledged to celebrate gratitude and to count blessings from their home country every September 21 following.

In point of fact, I work really hard to be...

Someone asked me the other day why I refuse to refer to the transition that occurs for most career women in midlife as a “crisis.” While it’s true that the word “crisis” means a crucial or decisive point or situation, or a turning point, it also has about it an air of instability and upheaval.

There’s a negative connotation to the word, which perpetuates the stereotype of...

Following a brief conversation earlier this week with a woman I’d known only peripherally during my corporate days, I continued to feel off balance, as if something from my past kept tugging at me, but my mind refused to acknowledge it.

She shared with me that one of her teenage sons had been seriously injured in a car accident several...

Letting go comes in two flavors: “passive letting go” and “active letting go.”

One tastes like plain ol’ vanilla, the other Cherry Garcia: cherry ice cream with whole cherries and mega pieces of dark chocolate. Hmmm, well it’s almost 100 degrees as I write this, and I guess I’m craving a little TLC in the form of some Ben & Jerry’s.

“Passive letting go”...

After weeks of playing tag-your-it to find available dates, my good friend and I finally got to meet for lunch recently.

Trying to coordinate our schedules is always a major undertaking.

Over a piece of peanut butter cheesecake (low fat of course) she confessed:

“I work. I have kids. I try to have a life. After all this trying and talking, I’ve discovered a secret: There is no such thing as work-life...

Yesterday was the summer solstice – the longest day of the year (at least here in our little hemisphere), the first official day of summer, and the half-way point between Happy New Year and Auld Lang Syne.

Six months left to make that impact I’ve been cultivating in my business since January 1st and leave my mark on the year known as 2011.

It was also the day we held...

What’s wrong with the expression “creating work/life balance”?

What’s wrong with the plethora of articles out there that focus on “balance” as the nirvana all business women should be aspiring to?

Ack! Where do I start?

Despite being used by some well-meaning and intelligent coaches, the term “work/life balance” actually does women more harm than good because it conjures up the image of a scale, and implies that true balance is...

Oh yes, I can feel it! It’s not just the world around me that’s flowering and opening up to spring – I’m coming out of the long, cold, dark days of winter. This time of year it’s like my brain does a thorough spring cleaning – clearing out all the clutter, throwing out all the negative self-talk, dusting off the ideas and dreams that got stalled...