SoAR! With Coaching (SWC)™

Jack Welch served as the CEO of General Electric for 2 decades. He combined strategic insights with managerial innovations. He said “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” During his time at General Electric, the value of the shares for the company moved from $14 Billion to over $410 Billion. So he knew a...

“I forgot to post today!” Has that ever happened to you? Posting on social media was not something that I needed to do every day in my 8-hour a day school psychologist position. I just had to show up for work. I was present. I was on campus or in my district office. But I still needed to build rapport and relationships with my team members and co-workers. So even though I wasn’t posting on social...

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” ―Sara Blakely, Founder & CEO of Spanx This is more true than you might be thinking right now. There’s lot of things that I don’t know. But it took me a while to realize that that’s fine. It can be scary to think of the things that we don’t know. Many of...

“In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.” ― Richie Norton When you decided to start your business, did you have a plan beyond saying “I want to make money” Sure, having money is a great feeling and yes, you have to spend money to make money, But do you know that without the right plan, you’re just giving away your money And watching your dreams be ou...

>>Sorry for the wind in the background. I did that Facebook Live sitting in my car in a parking lot. This is a question that I am asked a lot so I had to share the recording! <<< I recently was chatting with a prospect and we got to talking about her needs. She mentioned that one of the things that she believed her business needed was an impressive website. When I asked why, she sai...

Every business needs leads to survive. Leads are part of the sales process that you have for your business. It doesn’t matter if you’re in network marketing, franchising, or an entrepreneur who is building their own business. It doesn’t matter if you are in wellness, health, fitness, mental health, education, technology, construction….you need to have leads for your business. Have you been told th...

Goals are a part of that blueprint for the success of your business Goals create that path that you will need to take to get from feeling stuck or crappy to being successful! Think of the businesses and entrepreneurs that you follow. Do you think that they woke up one day and success just happened? I can tell you that it didn’t. Seriously, check out the stories for how Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Fent...

Have you ever been rejected? I don’t know about you, but I have been rejected before. I’ve been rejected by old boyfriends, universities that I applied to, scholarships that I applied to internships, jobs, committees that I applied to in professional organizations. I even got rejected by school districts when I did my dissertation on clinical supervision, job satisfaction and burnout among school...

20% of businesses fain in their first year! 50% of new small businesses disappear within 5 years! Check out the U.S. Small Business Administration for more startling facts on entrepreneurship. There are several reasons why they fail. One of the reasons is failing to have a budget and not tracking how you spend your money. You need to be budgeting if you want your business to survive its first 5 ye...

Do you think that you need to be an extrovert to build a successful business?   You can be an introvert and lead a successful business!  Both introverts and extroverts bring value to any business and to any organization.    However, both introverts and extroverts face challenges as business owners.    Neither an introvert or an extrovert has a guaranteed path to succe...

Do you love learning or do you love hoarding? There is a big difference and it impacts your business! There is so much information that is available to us as business owners and it is so easy for us to find a way to rationalize why everything we see, we think would be good for us to learn.  But can we learn to do EVERYTHING? Just think about that question for a few.  Also, with all that...

80% of people who make New Years’ Resolutions give up on them! [Source: New York Post] If you are interested in reading the rest of the article, send me a message and I will share it with you. As a side note, when you work in the school system, you have two new years! The new year in the school system happens in August or September depending on where you are. I worked as a School Psychologist and...

This is only for leaders! Do you really know that makes a leader effective or successful? There are certain things that you will need to perform your role as an entrepreneur, as a leader. When you decided to start your own business you knew what industry you were gonna do it in right maybe it did maybe it didn't but the thing is that you came up with an idea and then you waited right…. Nah you did...

“Sometimes it takes asking one question to unlock the door to your success.” Dr. Priscilla Kucer I have met people who don’t like to ask questions. Some are even afraid to ask questions. I enjoy asking questions because the information that I get in the answers helps me to improve my actions. As a faculty, I encourage my students to ask me and each other questions to show them how such a skill can...

There is so much to do in my business....I have lists, schedules, calendars, reminders, courses to review, 1:1 coaching sessions, group coaching sessions, webinars, content creation, keeping up with my social media, and not to mention cooking, laundry, and grocery shopping and spending time with my activities with my family! There are days that I feel like I am constantly going. To the point that...

Too often we like to focus on our weaknesses, on those things that we can’t do Then we end up using those weaknesses as excuses for why we can take action I will be sharing one strategy that you can use to identify your strengths and weaknesses and how you can use them to grow your business Why is it important to know your strengths as an entrepreneur? It’s important because when you know your str...

20% of small businesses FAIL in their first year! It doesn’t matter if you started a company from scratch, running a franchise, or became an independent business owner, you are running a small business. I was reading an article that talked about the reasons why small businesses fail. That article not only mentioned that 20% statistic, but it also mentioned that 70% of small businesses make it to t...

In this riveting episode of SoAR! With Coaching, Dr. P delves into the power of positive thinking, guided by the wise words of Caterina Fake, FLICKR's Founder, who believes optimism is an entrepreneur's key trait. Drawing from her experience in school districts, Dr. P witnessed first-hand how damaging negative self-talk can be. We often get bogged down by negativity, causing us to abandon...

Remembering why we started our business can be very motivating to help us continue to build it. This is because we have some difficult days being a business owner.  But motivation alone doesn't help us figure out what is the next action that we need to take in our business to keep it moving forward.  Having a strategy and a strategic plan goes VERY well with our motivation to succeed. Ou...

That thing that just happened to you can be such a huge life changing event and you might not even realize it! Along my professional journey, I've seen how a life changing event impact the staff members that I work with on the many teams I've worked with worked, especially how those life changing events impacted those adults in both their personal lives as well as their professional lives Oftentim...

There are strategies that you learned and used while you were completing your dissertation that allowed you to finish it.  Guess what? You can use many of those same strategies to help you build the business of your dreams.  It's possible that you decided to go after your doctorate so that you can advance in your career or possibly to help you start your own business. It could be that yo...

Do you know what scaling a business means and why you should even care about it in your business? Too many entrepreneurs and independent business owners go into unnecessary debt because they fail to scale. *If you are not scaling your business, you are wasting tons of money! If are spending tons of money to increase your sales and you are fine with that, then this video is not for you. But if you...

I chose to talk about this topic because it is relevant for any type of business.  But those who work in direct sales or network marketing have found this podcast to be very helpful.  Don’t let your team quit on you! It doesn’t matter what business you are in So long as you have a team, you need to be keeping that team so your business can grow. I will be sharing one way that you can sto...

I don’t know about you, but when I made the decision to start a business I felt so accomplished…So imagine how over the moon I felt when I actually started it! Then all I got was crickets chirping. Did you know that you need Leads if you want to have a successful business? When I first started my online business, I had no customers for months! I was like ….What the heck?  I started to thinkin...

You started your company, now you want to grow it, right? I don’t know about you, but when I was first told that I needed to prospect, I had no idea what that really meant. I remember feeling great when I started my business, but then I got stuck. It wasn’t growing how I thought it would. In my job at the time and with what I was learning in my doctorate program, I was familiar with recruiting, se...