coaching for clarity and courage
Training to be a coach is a weird thing. It’s a mixture of neuroscience and pop psychology and, frankly, cultural appropriation. It’s got complicated spiritual metaphors and evidence-based research on how the brain responds to stress. It’s a big information download, […]
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If you’ve looked at my coaching and mentoring page, you’ve seen that I consider coaching and mentoring to be different processes. Some clients need a mixture of both, but some clients fall squarely under either coaching or mentoring. Here’s a quick […]
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How do you react when you are frustrated? Do you show physical symptoms as well as feeling it emotionally? Does frustration drive you to take action, or does it make you want to stop? Does frustration lead you to anger, or […]
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Fear is really tricky to parse. Sometimes it’s a true signal that you’re doing something dangerous. That deserves consideration. The fear, though, can’t tell just how dangerous that thing may be. It will ping for climbing a tree or for […]
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Some people look as failure as a bad sign. Failing means you’re a loser, that you did things wrong. That you’re stupid or incompetent. Others see failure as a good sign – they believe failing means you tried something major. […]
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Next week I head off to TED Women, theme – “It’s about time.” (If you want to do in-person coaching in San Francisco, email me quickly because my schedule is firming up.) This week’s self-coaching is also, therefore, about time. […]
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Seven or eight years ago now, I was living with my parents (and husband, and son) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. I’d been an expat long enough that I could open a can of beans with a paring knife, but my mom […]
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Networking isn’t about the people you know well. There just aren’t enough people you know well. It’s about the people you kind of know. The colleague from another department three jobs ago. The intern you supervised in summer 2004. A […]
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I read a blog post today about not being brave. Bruce DeSilva, blogging for the Washington Post, wrote about the time he learned of a priest abusing a child – and ignored it. He had acceptable reasons for ignoring it. His […]
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Don’t be the monkey. This Jonathan Coulson song sums up a lot of our lives, just lumping along waiting for something magical to make it better. In this case, it’s a woman he’s objectifying into a magical savior object. For […]
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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]