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FYFW 2014: Fear of Failure

It’s my 3rd Annual Face Your Fear Week! Today we’re talking about the fear of failure. No matter how much we want a certain outcome, eventually we’re going to bump up against disappointment in our lives. It can be heartbreaking to experience failure, and most of us will do just about anything to avoid it.…

How to Recover From a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Disney just released a new movie based on one of my favorite children’s books, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. For those of you who haven’t read this treasure of a book, it follows young Alexander as he faces numerous awful things throughout his day such as not getting a prize…

5 Unexpected Ways You Ruin Your Career Ambitions

When I was figuring out my ideal blog reader, it took me a little while to narrow down the age range, interests, and personality type. Who was I writing for? But there’s one characteristic I was completely clear on from the start: I want to surround myself with ambitious women. To many people, the words…

Living With Regrets: Would You Forget If You Could?

We all have regrets. I regret that time I cut my own bangs when I was 8, or when I wore 6-inch “Spice Girls” platform shoes as a teenager. But seriously, I have bigger regrets too. Like not listening to my friends who told me my high school boyfriend was gay (he was), or when…

Should You Start a Business? Take the Quiz and Find Out!

I hit a wonderful business milestone this month: I now earn more money through my coaching practice than I ever earned in a corporate job. And that’s saying something since I used to be one of those ultra ambitious corporate ladder climbers who was always looking for my next promotion. But you know what? I’m…

13 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make and How to Fix Them

Bad joke alert: I just flew in from Atlanta, and boy, are my arms tired! ba dum ching! Anyhoo, I recently spent a mind-blowing week at Christine Kane’s Uplevel Your Business Live Retreat. This was my third year attending the retreat, and it made me realize just how far I’ve come since the day I…

10 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

One of my amazingly ambitious clients has a job interview this week at a really groovy forward-thinking company. It’s in Australia, which is convenient because that’s where she lives. Interviews can be scary. You’re putting yourself and your work out there to be judged and picked apart by someone you’re trying to impress. They’re doubly…