Living the Questions: A New Year’s Invitation for Women Leaders in 2025
Welcome to a New Year: A fresh start filled with potential and possibilities. As we step into 2025, I invite us women leaders to pause, reflect, and focus on ‘living the questions’. This year, I invite you to embrace the power of questions as a guiding habit in your leadership journey. Living the Questions The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke…
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What are the Advantages of a Reflective Partnership in Coaching?
As we journey towards emerging as entrepreneurial or organizational leaders during COVID-19, have you thought of the numerous advantages of having a partnership with a professional coach? My guess is that you will eventually be coached, but just as importantly you will learn to use coaching as a leadership competency! Leaders can find themselves in overwhelming situations at the best…
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How Important is Self-Reflection to Your Success?
For many high-achieving women and those they support, I suspect that their AMBITION is still very much alive! How do we keep our ambitions while still going deeper as leaders? How do you define success? I suspect most of us started our careers to exceed performance expectations. Yet this may not take us to our next level of fulfillment or…
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Day 19: Can Change Help You Stay Positive?
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer As women leaders in business, we are still in the midst of great ambiguity and unexpected change. For many people, this kind of situation tends to breed negativity. Despite this, many leaders see this time as one for innovation, hope, and building…
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Could it Be the Time to Meet your Compassionate and Mindful Leader?
As I began writing this, I feel a mix of emotions! I’ve been reflecting on how The Coaching Nest can best support you amazing women and those who support your journey. Together, how do we navigate these strange and challenging times? We are all different, so we will be experiencing the COVID-19 crisis from the lens of our own realities,…
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How Is My Leadership and Coaching Growth A Gift from Transcending Unexpected Challenges?
Life is not linear-it is a beautifully winding path with sharp turns and unexpected stops. Challenges arise, catching us off-guard, but it is how we respond to these hardships that truly shapes our character and defines our leadership. Today, I want to share parts of my own journey-a personal adventure that brought me closer to resilience, mindful coaching and holding…
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Pause for Accurate Self-Assessment
Welcome to 2023! For many years now, I’ve advocated for a leadership style that is about simplifying, letting go, and just being, all without sacrificing ambition. To embody this leaderly essence, we are invited to PAUSE and make self-awareness and accurate self-assessment a priority for YOU and those you lead. Coaching allows us as a partnership and team to deeply…
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My Intention for You in 2021:
Today’s leaders, like you, require a whole new mindset that focuses on a different type of learning and support! Asking questions and creating that “aha” towards clarity, focus, and intention setting is the EMERGING way to change thinking, behavior, and habits. The way we learned in the past is not the complete picture. We desire sustained change in our beliefs and attitudes.…
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Are you Curious about Why you Think the Way you Do?
In a world of change and constant pressure to make decisions, we often act and jump to conclusions. It happens quickly and unconsciously. This is why we do not realise how we develop a certain action or response. A coaching tool that provides us insights into this thinking blind spot is called the ladder of inference. It provides insight into…
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Is it Possible to Embrace Strength and Vulnerability as a Woman in Leadership?
I love having my female friends over in my backyard with a glass of wine to chat about life. I appreciate it even more after not being able to gather face to face for such a lengthy time due to the pandemic. I’m not sure how the topic of this blog emerged, but we ended up discussing vulnerability in life…
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Day 21: What is the Importance of Career and Leadership Mastery?
For years, I imagined a world where women envisioned and owned their leadership voice and presence as both entrepreneurial and organizational leaders! As the CEO and Founder of The Coaching Nest, I have created services where we use the key competencies of coaching, diversity, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence to help women discover Career and Leadership Mastery (CALM) Power. This will prepare them to be…
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Day 20: What is Your Purpose Beyond Profit?
MY CALM (Career and Leadership Mastery) Power™ program emerged from referencing the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). My intention is to coach emerging women leaders to help them feel supported and in return, they can build their own environments where intrinsic motivation is an innate attribute. Self–Determination Theory is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that cares about people’s inherent growth tendencies and innate…
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Day 18: How is Your Inner Dialogue?
How’s Your Inner Dialogue? Our thoughts often determine our future, so it is important to pay attention to our internal dialogue. What is your internal dialogue saying? Your internal dialogue is that self-talking voice inside our heads which has an opinion on many things (sometimes everything) around you. It is the voice that brings logic and reasoning to a given situation, based…
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