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I was talking with a client, and she asked me 2 important questions about change. The Backstory: Her daughter is in a job she doesnโ€™t love, getting paid less than market value and people are leaving right and left due...
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Imagine being on the IT team and completing the well-planned changes to your routers and discovering that website traffic was no longer being properly directedโ€ฆfor your 3.5 billion Facebook users! Now thatโ€™s an epic fail! In comparison, discovering there is...
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A job search has many moving parts. It makes sense that you might feel overwhelmed. It also makes sense that youโ€™d feel anxious or even scared. Your mind likes to get involved. It hates change and change brings up fear....
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I woke up at 4:30 am and could not get back to sleep. Today was the day I was going to renegotiate my contract with a long-time client. I had done my market research. The gap between what the market...
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I was just going through some stuff on my desk and found an envelope. Across the front it said. โ€œLaurieโ€™s Top 100 2021โ€.ย  It was a list of 100 dreams I have for my life. I have a vague memory...
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On the prep call for tomorrowโ€™sย Unstoppable Seriesย –ย Creating Career Success on Your Termsย (COME JOIN US) – one of the guests, Kristen, was talking about what prompted her to leave her successful 15-year career in the healthcare field to open up her...
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Big Announcement! I am writing a screenplay. This is not an overnight decision. I’ve been germinating on my screenplay idea for years. I’ve talked it over and over with my husband and my kids. Iโ€™ve been daydreaming about the beginning,...
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For those who know me, you know that I attended the University of Texas. I graduated with a degree in Business with an emphasis on Information Technology. The majority of my courses in my junior and senior years were related...
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I always include a photo in my blogs. If you are a regular reader, you probably have seen them. They go along with the topic of the blog and may include a quote. Sometimes I make up the quote and...
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You’ve probably heard about the Law of Attraction and the idea that like attracts like. You actually may have received advice around how to attract more of what you want by โ€œadjusting your energyโ€ to match what you want to...
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