Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Running a business is the same as organising a good party. Its terrifying to plan. It is easy and joyous to partake in once its in progress. The emotional rollercoaster of the social host, mirror that of an entrepreneurial start-up exactly. When I began to play with the notion of setting up in business I […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]
One if the real perks of my job is the very real brilliance that fills the space we share as soon as a client enters the room. What he or she brings is their own wisdom and knowing. We then embark on a collaborative journey, pooling our resources in service of meeting the objectives […]
When your oddity becomes your asset. When starting a new business it seemed every one was banging on about ‘identifying your USP‘ and it’s took me a while to work that out. What was unique about my business or service? Accessing business advisors and other entrepreneurs and mentors and search engines I googled’ til I […]
Rebecca now will be on annual leave until the 22nd of August. She will be staring at a view not unlike this. She may not be contemplating her own, or indeed anyone else’s career during this time. She will however resume her blog, renewed, on the 22nd of this month. Enjoy your summer! Rebecca: The […]
I have a colleague who has indeed ‘dared’ and I do believe she is winning. She has taken redundancy, left her ‘home’ city and taken off for a year to find how best she can ‘make a difference’? both in her own life and in a larger movement. To choose the best way to make […]
What if you could take charge of your brain instead of it taking control of you? What if we used our brains in service of our hearts, and not of our fears? From Eastern manta to NLP it is proven that when we raise our consciousness, when choose our thoughts, the effect on our minds, […]
What’s the opposite of shame? Is it being proud? Or is it having enough equilibrium and inner security to be open about who we are? I have held definition of ‘shame’ with me for many a year, so please forgive me if it is less than accurate. I do believe it still has integrity: “Guilt […]
I was watching a colleague of mine practising her fire-fan display and I suddenly really understood what it meant to ‘be in ones element’. Watching this beautiful woman embody a whole new, confident facet of herself was a real privilege. She was in the zone, in tune with the flames, she was absolutely aligned with […]