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The Real Trick to Achieving Work-Life Balance

Today we’re talking about a topic near and dear to my heart: work-life balance. But first, I need to tell you how much I suck at sports (I promise this will all make sense in a minute). Sports and I just don’t mix. Seriously, I can’t run, jump, or kick worth a damn. You’d think…

Are These Losers Sabotaging Your Success?

I hate to break it to you, but there are people in your life who are hoping you’ll fail at whatever big goal you have your heart set on: starting a business, losing weight, finding a new job, getting organized, or becoming the next millionaire pop superstar. But if you were hoping to be the…

5 Secrets to Help You Stop Procrastinating and Stay Motivated

Every so often one of my clients will sigh dramatically and say, “I can’t stop procrastinating. How do I stay motivated?” That’s when I start pumping my chest and rolling my arms like a 90s In Living Color Fly Girl. “Break it on down! Break it on down!” Most of my clients will laugh and…

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…

How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

A few years ago when I was still in the corporate world, the company I worked for was hosting a conference. One of the meeting rooms was changed at the last minute, and we needed to put up a sign to direct the attendees to the correct location. No biggie. A group of us were…

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…

Are You Proactive or Reactive? And Why It Matters

I once had a truly miserable job. No really, it was the job from hell. My manager went out of her way to criticize my work, my coworkers bullied me, and it felt like everyone in the department took delight in making my life unbearable. It was so bad that I became physically sick every…