What is the value of your business?

đź’° As part of the dissolution of my marriage, we have to list the value of our assets, this includes my business. I met with a woman who helps people sell their businesses to figure out the market value of my business. (In case you’re thinking about this, I can definitely recommend her!) When we […]

Arianna Huffington Speaks on Leadership

Today, I am letting Arianna Huffington (of the Huffington Post) explain what’s most important in life, leadership and success. I’ve attached the article by Ekaterina Walter and her interview with Arianna in full below, but here are three of her eight nuggets with my own comments 🙂 “We need space to innovate, think, and strategize. […]

Integrity: It’s a Choice, And That Sucks

Don’t you just wish people would stand by their word? Personally, I’d like to believe it’s just a given, and as certain as night follows day, people will act in integrity all the time across all situations. Unfortunately that’s just not the case. Maybe those people who don’t stand by their word are folks closest […]

Pick A Horse And Ride It

Passionate Choices Lead To Potent Consequences* I had an uneasy realization this past weekend. I’ve been addicted to the Aha’s. The breakthroughs, the process, the dramatic realizations and discovery of personal truth. There’s nothing wrong with those things in general, in fact they are awesome and totally part of the journey. But I found myself […]

13 Tips For Thru-Hiking Your Business

The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and Appalachian Trail (AT) are getting more well-known with the number of people hiking them and writing books about their experience. I have to say, I find it annoying. For a couple reasons: My boyfriend, Mike, and I hiked the PCT in 2001, we spent 4 months thru-hiking it from […]

Is your underwear inside out? A Reality Check.

Reality Check: Is Your Foundation in a Bundle? A couple of years ago I was working with a coaching client who was having a really off day.  It was like everything she touched went haywire, and she was helplessly watching a lot of the things she had built fall away.  It was so awful all […]

Creating A “Blizzard of AAH’s” in Your Business

You don’t know if you can until you are doing it.  There is no other way.  Create a crisis: a need or a problem that in the solving of it will call all of your skills, genius, and yes, even your courage and cojones to solve it…or die trying. ~KMP   My husband, Mike, was […]

Claim Your Genius

Last month I wrote a blog post called “Claim Your Baggage” You can read it here. Today I’d like follow up on the theme of claiming what is ours.  I believe that we need to own our baggage in order to release it.  On the flip side, in order to share our genius, and celebrate […]

Breakdowns & Breakthroughs

  Breakdowns suck.  They just do. What I know to be true though is that with every breakdown comes a breakthrough—if you can stay in the game long enough and ride out the discomfort, fear and urge to quit. In today’s post I’ll describe what breakdown is, some signs you may be in it, and […]

The Silent Killers of Business–Are They in Yours?

Every business has them, silent killers that destroy our intentions, goals and dreams of success. What are these killers and where do they come from? More importantly, how do we transform them into productive upstanding citizens? Have you guessed it yet? I won’t drag it out, if you’re like me you want the answers and […]