'success' tagged blog posts in Ellia Blog for Women's Breakthrough

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...

by Kathy Caprino

In preparing to launch my new summer Career Change teleseminar program – Change Your Career—Change Your Life! – I’ve been thinking about why it’s so hard for many midlife women to find -- and maintain -- a joyful and successful career, and why it’s so challenging to shift out of one career into another, to a more fulfilling path.

In my personal experience, there were some very heavy blocks that...

Well, my 30-Day Twitter Experiment continues and it’s been quite enlightening and surprising so far – and tiring! More than I imagined.

Here’s what I’m learning:

1) It’s all about the connection. What do people want more than anything in life? To be valued, liked, appreciated, understood, recognized for who they really are, and to not feel alone. Welcome to Twitter. It’s all about real connection – conversing,...