Rise & Thrive Series

One of the biggest mistakes that I’ve seen people make over the years is that they think they have to have the whole plan before they get started. That’s a trap that will keep you stuck.

In 20+ years of coaching, I’ve seen it hundreds of times: a client is completely stuck because of a thought pattern.

No one wants to feel bad but sometimes our automatic ways of reacting lead us to – inadvertently – make choices that do exactly that.

Over the last 20+ years, I’ve coached more than 3000 people and there is a mistake that I’ve seen hundreds of times. This mistake keeps us stuck with our limitations and stuck in our status quo.

In this episode, I break down why our own need for quick results shuts down our ability to move forward. I also share 2 proven strategies to help you move forward – faster.

We’ve heard it a million times: awareness is the key to change.

Setting healthy boundaries is one of the most essential skills we can develop. Without this skill, it becomes difficult – if not impossible – to maintain healthy relationships, which can lead us to feel resentful and drained. Healthy boundaries allows us to manage our resources: time and energy. Put another way, when we don’t have healthy boundaries, we can find ourselves stuck and we can’t move f...

When people are trying to figure out what’s next for them on their path, they often feel stuck, and they can’t even see new options or possibilities. In this episode, I address one of the most common reasons why this happens and a proven exercise that will help you move past this barrier.

We have all had experiences where we have been wronged or mistreated in some way and the other person is either never going to apologize or even if they do apologize, they can’t really undo the damage. Then what is our way forward? In this episode, I share an experience I recently had and how it led me to the greatest peace I’ve experienced.

As a coach, something that I’ve seen hundreds of times is that people set themselves up for failure when they are facing a big decision. How? They only give themselves 2 options. In this episode, I share 3 proven techniques that I’ve used to help clients move forward with confidence and conviction.

When you start out to blaze a new path for yourself, you often face resistance from those that you once counted on for support. This episode reveals a truth that will help you stay on your course and remain true to who you are.

Sometimes people hurt us. Sometimes we can resolve it with them; other times we can’t. In this episode, I share my experience with this that led me to the epiphany that the only way I ever lose is when I stop being true to my own heart.

Advice is everywhere. What’s tricky is that without the right lens in place you can be taken off your path. Tune into this episode to learn 4 criteria of who to accept advice from and how to build a lens for analyzing what advice is right for you.

Sometimes in life we can find it hard to move forward. We feel stuck or uncertain about what’s next. In this episode, I share 2 proven strategies for finding your way forward.

I believe in happiness. And that doesn’t mean that life will be “happy” 100% of the time. What I don’t believe in is the toxic positivity that you see out there on social media that demands that we are ALWAYS happy or grateful or we aggressively seek the silver lining. While there is a time and place for gratitude and seeking the silver lining, those emerge when we are ready. If we try to force th...

Today I want to start with a yellow flag:  Be very careful of the answers that you lock into. What I’ve observed is that we often lock into an answer and then we protect that answer.  Here is an example: I was once teaching a workshop and at break, a number of people were standing around chit chatting.  One of the women, Cindy, said to me, “I wanted to ask you something.  Earlier you made a commen...

We’ve all heard the old adage that “practice makes perfect.” As a coach, I can tell you with great certainty that only the right practice makes perfect. If we practice .....

Too often we don’t tackle a new behavior (or skill) because “we just aren’t good at it.” It doesn’t have to be that way, though. In this episode, I share a strategy .....

Sometimes we are the stumbling block between what we want and what we have right now. Our beliefs about ourselves and the fears we allow to hold us back keep us away from what we want. Do we mean to be the stumbling block? Of course not! In this episode, I share how this happens and a strategy to ensure that it doesn’t derail your efforts!

Most of us desire to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. However, no one ever knows when we will discover our life’s purpose. Finally, however, there comes the point in our lives where we find it out, on our own. My guests today are two gentlemen who help the entrepreneurs in living out their purpose and legacy. Nikhil Agharkar, a serial entrepreneur and business development executive, and Case...