The most powerful force is a group that forms into a team. It gains momentum as it focuses on a common goal and empowers not only the members of the team but sends out a wave of energy calling others to join. Without the focus of the goal enlisting each member as a purposeful and [...]
OMG! The sky is falling! Brexit is happening but no one knows what is next and everyone is feeding the fear. We’re all gonna die! Or are we? An inciting incident – an event in a story which cause disturbance, changing the pattern of the current reality also opens up a gap creating a portal [...]
These mountains that You are carrying, You were only Supposed to climb ~Najwa Zebain There are all sorts of mountains out there. The ones that beckon us, challenge us; some of them defeat us others just block the view. When I first moved from Northwester Ohio, (which is flat as a pancake; stand on [...]
In this market place there are 3 kinds of brands: Company Brands, Product Bands and Personal Brands. Break any business into all three. There’s the name of your company (Apple for instance) there’s the product (iPhone, Pod, Pad etc) and then the person associated with it (Steve Jobs past away 5th October 2011 nearly 7 years ago [...]
Tune IN by Tuning OUT Just like a radio there is so much static interference from the noise and all the shiny yell-y seductive Freak-quencies, including your own ‘crap-channel’ disparaging berating ego driven voice. Screaming false warnings and questioning everything like an OCD obsessive. Finding your authentic voice, speaking your truth, telling your story all [...]
I recently started to explore open water swimming. It has been calling me for some while this need to immerse myself and challenge myself. Once you are out in the Lake there is no where to touch down. You have to keep going. Reaching out, kicking …Breathing In our entrepreneurial journey or life adventure you [...]
After years of pulling the load all by myself and holding up the world as a single, sole bread winner Mom, for my two kids –who are now older teens it’s time to lay the burden down. For years I thought I can’t wait to get out from under this rock – which has felt [...]
Everybody is always banging on about their 60 Seconds in which they try to cram in as many of their features and benefits as possible. Or their Elevator Pitch. Which usually sound like an advert full of bogus brags and empty promises. When was the last time you took an elevator with a prospect? Ditch [...]
“Let us also produce some bold act of our own –join the ranks of the most emulated.” --Seneca One of the things I hear every time I run a workshop, training or 1:1 coaching session is ‘I don’t have a story’ Yes you do!! Loads of them. ‘But my stories are boring or sad or [...]
THRESHOLD MOMENTS are those turning points in your life when you faced a difficult decision, life event or a surprising pivot which changed your life forever. Your standing at the cross roads- literally –trying to decide which way to go. To the left the path of needles to the right the path of pins… that was [...]
