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3 Steps to Finding Your Nonsensical Next Career Move

3 Steps to Finding Your Nonsensical Next Career Move

I was talking with a coaching client who is at the beginning of a job search. She has 25+ years...
How to Plug Up the Resume Black Hole and Get More Interviews

How to Plug Up the Resume Black Hole and Get More Interviews

The number one single sentence I have heard about why folks are not getting interviews over my 30 years as...
Finding A New Job Requires the Real You to Show Up

Finding A New Job Requires the Real You to Show Up

Being your full authentic self and making genuine connections can be hard. It takes effort, vulnerability and presence. And it...
30 Questions to Ask Your Future Self to Help Your Present Self Reach Your Big, Bold Career Goal

30 Questions to Ask Your Future Self to Help Your Present Self Reach Your Big, Bold Career Goal

I have always been someone who set big goals. I did not always reach them but that did not bother...
What Women Connected to Tech are Saying About Career Alchemy Academy

What Women Connected to Tech are Saying About Career Alchemy Academy

Whenever something new happens … a new job, a new project, move into a new house, or start a new...
Release Your 2024 Unsupportive Identities and Unleash Your Powerful 2025 Identity in Your Career

Release Your 2024 Unsupportive Identities and Unleash Your Powerful 2025 Identity in Your Career

I was leaving the Starbuck’s parking lot (I know this does not surprise you) and I noticed the car in...
1 Simple Tool to Make 2024 Your Best Year Yet … and 2025 even better

1 Simple Tool to Make 2024 Your Best Year Yet … and 2025 even better

Everyone is talking about mindset and thought work. Including me. I am an outspoken advocate that your thoughts create your career...
Entrepreneur Envy: How Women Can Create Career Freedom in Corporate Tech Roles

Entrepreneur Envy: How Women Can Create Career Freedom in Corporate Tech Roles

Have you ever said something like this? “I’d never want to own my own business—it seems too risky and exhausting....
Building AND Sustaining Momentum in Your Job Search

Building AND Sustaining Momentum in Your Job Search

Is this you? You have been: Applying for jobs on the big boards and the niche boards. Attending networking events,...
Guess What? Your Career Dream Requires You to Embrace Your Inner Elf

Guess What? Your Career Dream Requires You to Embrace Your Inner Elf

It’s that time of year — the season for cozying up with favorite holiday movies that bring all the good...
My Sister’s in ICU and I Feel Calm; 3 Things You Can Do To Achieve Your Own Call in Your Career

My Sister’s in ICU and I Feel Calm; 3 Things You Can Do To Achieve Your Own Call in Your Career

At the writing of this blog my younger sister is in ICU, completely sedated, on a breathing tube after complications...
A Powerful Way for Women in Tech to Reduce Performance Review Anxiety

A Powerful Way for Women in Tech to Reduce Performance Review Anxiety

  How to create connection, reduce defensiveness, and build stronger relationships when receiving feedback. Have I got something cool to...
Quiz: What is Your People-Pleasing Persona at Work

Quiz: What is Your People-Pleasing Persona at Work

Recently I shared a story about how I was confronted with the fact that I still am a people-pleaser …...
What if you are just 1 clean staircase away from your career dream?

What if you are just 1 clean staircase away from your career dream?

Imagine that you and I are working together in a coaching relationship. One of the things I like to think...
Stop People Pleasing

Stop People Pleasing

In the category of TMI I am going to fess up to something that started out as being a bit...
4 Ways to Bring Feminine Authenticity into the Work Zeitgeist

4 Ways to Bring Feminine Authenticity into the Work Zeitgeist

Pop quiz: What do these five words have in common? Vaccine They Integrity Gaslighting Authenticity Answer: These are all previously named as...
Your Career is an Infinite Game, Part 2

Your Career is an Infinite Game, Part 2

Last week we talked about the difference between playing a Finite Game when it comes to your career, and an...